Archive for December 2008
Bloody brilliant British…weather?!
Found a new BBC Weather service today while checking what the skies will be doing on Saturday. It says it’s in beta, but it looks fantastic. Check it out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/
It contains up-to-date satellite images overlaid onto the familiar BBC News map, which can be zoomed and moved. Selecting a city shows you four day (i.e. five day without the current day) and 12-hour forecast as well as a pre-zoomed overlay.
There are loads of buttons to play with, as well as shaded boxes that show a glimpse of what’s to come, including embedded video forecast. Looking good.
My first domain!
As with all of my ‘great’ ideas, this one came at just the wrong moment – when I was scraping the bottom of my student account and had no spare cash.
I can’t remember how or when, but I had a sudden flash of a website that could be. The .co.uk domain was available, but I would have to wait a week or two to have any spare cash.
As it was, I got paid sooner than I thought, and bought socialphoto.co.uk. The name is the thing that struck me as a good one to buy; as yet I haven’t got too many solid ideas what to do with it (apart from keep it as my own).
Luck started pouring in after that initial bout – my uncle offered me (very generously!) free webhosting, so I was quickly able to install WordPress 2.7 with very few troubles (having done a WP install once before at debating.org).
For now it’s going to be serving as something of a dedicated photoblog for myself, with this blog reserved for ramblings and random stuff, but we’ll see if I get any cool ideas in the near future.
Facebook’s revenue from spam
Reading this article on the facebook blog, I was interested to learn of what seemed to me a little-publicised ruling against some spammers in Facebook’s favour.
Even if Facebook collect a fraction of the $873million award, that’s quite a lot of money for a company that doesn’t really seem to know how to make any yet. The model is simple: set up a place for spammers to ply their trade and wait for them to come. Sue them, collect as much money from them as you can. Cost to you: negligible (legal costs, but those will be paid out of the settlement, I suppose).
I might do it myself.
