Andy Pipes is the site development producer for Channel4 Television in the UK and in his spare time tinkers with code and cookery. He's also a new father and plucks a banjo and steel guitar on the weekends.
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/music/Struggling_Musicians_Tool_Kit'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Despite grumbling from big-name artists and record labels around rampant P2P 'piracy', there's never been a better time to make money from creating music tracks of your own. There are dozens of useful websites - some completely free to use - that serve budding musicians...
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Yahoo_Buzzlist_versus_Google_Trends'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; As part of this week's Read/Write Web Files, we're looking at what may be on the cards in Yahoo's 100-day strategy for getting its house in order. In the inaugural post of the week, Richard outlined his Top 10 Yahoo! Properties. And I'd like to...
The world of webtop publishing (WTP) has come on in leaps and bounds in the last few years, with plenty of services feeling as good, if not better, than many standard desktop packages. This is particularly true in the case of Microsoft Word-alikes such as Google Docs (née Writely), ThinkFree and Zoho Writer, which were...
Emotions are everywhere you look on the Web. They're bursting from blogs, coursing through comments, and flooding forums the world over. An with the rise of microblogging apps like Twitter and Tumblr, more people are wearing their hearts on their homepages, so to speak, than ever before. But on the whole is the Internet happy...
Twitter has been a runaway success since the status message inspired web app launched about a year ago. Its rapid adoption, ease of use and extensibility resulted in a lot of excited developers taking Twitter's best bits and mixing them up to their own ends. FranticIndustries and the Twitter Fan Wiki together present a comprehensive...
