In which I analyse Facebook Connect’s UI, bash it a bit, and then steal the best bit and apply it to OpenID and OAuth applications. Pictures are provided.

On being laid off from Yahoo!, coping with it and the closure of Brickhouse, having a housewarming party and getting laid on again.

It’s been too long and there’s too much to write about, so in unhelpful munged-together form, here’re the last few months of my life:

Work at Yahoo! is going very well indeed. It took a little while to settle in, and my tolerance for the Cambridge–London commute is variable at best, but right now I’m having [...]

Facebook is everyone’s least hated under-one-roof social networking monster. It’s aesthetically neutral, perhaps even pretty. It’s open with feeds and iCal subscriptions and least evil of all, it allows you to specify an external source for your Facebook blog.

This is great step out from other social nets like MySpace, which expect you to remain within [...]

This blog post has been delayed about a month whilst a few issues got sorted out, but it’s with giddy excitement that I finally announce that I’ve got a new job; I’m now a web developer for Yahoo! in London.

It’s been a rather frantic and in places stressful turn of events: Returning from South by [...]