Since FX is one of the last great ripoffs in finance, this might actually be a pretty big deal.

TweetThe Currency Cloud Secures $4M To Disrupt The Trillion Dollar Foreign Exchange Market The Currency Cloud has developed a Foreign Exchange (FX) payments automation platform which supercharges the tired old world of cross-border business payments, aiming to reduce costs for business and make multi-currency payments more frictionless. Since FX is one of the last great ...

Ringmark

TweetGood to see Facebook putting pressure on the mobile manufacturers to standardise their HTML5 implementations Try it here http://rng.it Facebook today addressed three challenge areas that make it hard for developers to build apps on the mobile web: app discovery, browser fragmentation, and payments. As part of the second one, Facebook released Ringmark, a new ...

Social Media explained

Tweet This is how I discovered Pinterest… I already new that only google employees post to G+ TheAtlantic: Abysmal Google+ Numbers: Users Spending 3 Minutes per Month on the Site

Apple’s web-app directory has gone very quiet

TweetOriginal post from April 18, updated for the 1 year anniversary of apple web-apps going dark! Being a developer of several web-apps for both pc and mobile phones, I read with interest way back in March the brouhaha regarding whether Apple had intentionally hamstrung web-apps performance on the iPhone by preventing their use of its ...

Google Developer Day and My presentation @Creative sandbox

TweetSo I was off to Darling Harbour for the annual Geek-fest that is #gdd11, and was pretty impressed with the quality of the lunch boxes…the talks weren’t bad either. Actually the highlights were Timothy Jordan & Julia Ferraioli’s presentation on Using the Google+ APIs and also Eric Bidelman’s Bleeding Edge HTML5. I even managed to ...

Why buzzwords like HTML5 are useful

But I think there’s actually a very good reason why we should, in fact, embrace the term “HTML5” as an overarching buzzword for this latest round of web standards and specifications. Our industry has proven on several occasions that we don’t get excited about new, interesting, and useful technologies and concepts until such a buzzword is in place.

A quick and easy currency converter

Tweet Just put the finishing touches on CurrencyConvert.biz – A quick and easy Web 2.0 currency converter. Please leave any comments, bugs or feedback as a comment here. thx David

Using Closures in Javascript to pass parameters to setTimeout()

TweetFor the home page of my site I wanted to cause certain divs to fadeIn using jQuery after varying amounts of time. In javascript we can use setTimeout() to schedule an arbitrary function call for some point in future. However the function works differently between Firefox and Internet Explorer (MSIE). In FireFox, you would do ...

What the internet is doing to our minds

HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey” the machine is being dismantled, its wires unplugged: “My mind is going,” HAL says. “I can feel it.”
For Carr, the analogy is obvious: The modern mind is like the fictional computer. “I can feel it too,” he writes. “Over the last few years, I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory.”

Average cow makes enough manure a day to power a 100-watt light bulb

Don’t forget to add the additional bull$%^* factor…

I Think Facebook Just Seized Control Of The Internet

Their new three social plugins, Open Graph, and Open Graph API, make Facebook’s intentions very clear: they want to be the fabric of the web.

Mobile is the future according to google

Eric Schmidt: Mobile Is The Future, And There’s No Such Thing As Communication Overload

Is Google’s Eric Schmidt scared of Apple’s Steve Jobs?

Eric Schmidt Is the Nicest Guy in Tech…does that mean Google is doomed to lose to Apple?

trying out the iPhone OS4.0 beta

TweetAm enjoying the Multi-tasking and folders but my beloved nytimes app is crashing boohoo

Microsoft vs Google vs Apple

It’s hard to grasp the breathtaking scale of the epic war between Microsoft, Google and Apple. Billions upon billions of dollars. Entire industries at stake. This is the board. These are the pieces.

Twitter as History: Library of Congress Will Save Tweets

Perhaps maybe we should put more thought into our tweets now that they’ll be history

Murdoch hails iPad as saviour of news

Could this be the end of ‘freemium’?