Go go lazyweb!

Here’s the deal: I usually use my PC to listen to music but having just moved back home, there’s no room to set it up. Therefore I’ve instead copied a small subset of that music onto my iBook and will be using that instead for the next few months – iPod syncing et [...]

On trying to join up the internet: Every person’s website includes a file called �profile.xml� that describes public profiles and membership of other standalone webservices. It’s a very vague sketchy idea and I want to know if it’s worth pursuing. Is it really useful? Does it go some way to helping us towards Identity 2.0? Are there glaring architectural flaws that I’ve just missed?

I honestly hope that this year we see a bank stand up and say “here’s an online service that’s actually integral to the way you work”. At a time when public internet services are sucking up Ajax and open data from party pitchers, I want to know whether online banking is going to make a similar, user-centric leap forward.