Just noticed on the Last.FM friends page that when you hover over a friend in your friends list, the corner of the box (containing a particular friend’s profile picture) peels over and displays a trashcan. I mean, rubbish bin. …to… …to… Clicking on the person’s picture takes you to that person’s profile page. The trashcan…

Just started testing out Elgg and getting involved in the Elgg forums. Have already started writing some documentation as what is there already seems a bit thin in places. Unfortunately this means I’ve started getting private messages through Elgg asking complicated php questions about Elgg installation and customisation which I have no idea about –…

If you click the RSS feed link in Last.FM, instead of seeing the messy-looking xml  file you usually get, you get this lovely friendly message and explanation: I do like the pink RSS icon in the corner… and below this was a nice human-readable list of items which are in the RSS feed (not in…

Last.fm has a feature for Facebook where each of your charts (Top Weekly Artists/ Top Tracks Overall etc.) has a ‘Paste your taste’ dropdown box where you can copy an ordered list of your favourite music, ready to be pasted in to your Facebook profile ‘Music’ section. This is fine as long as that information…

Steve Ganz discovered that facebook is ageist. It appears that once you hit 30 the option to be looking for ‘whatever i can get’ or ‘Random play’ disappear! And if you were already on facebook with those selected and turn 30, it automatically changes your settings to just ‘Friendship’ without notifying you. Stunning. Surely this…

I was just faced with a Twitter holding page. I quite like it. It’s quite nice – I like the bird and the friendly explanation. It did however, redirect me to my Twitter homepage, and not to the page I was originally trying to access…

I don’t normally write about my work here, but thought I’d mention that I just published my mock-up of the SPLASH project on the University of Sussex SPLASH project blog: http://splashproject.blogspot.com/2007/10/mock-up.html Please comment on the project blog itself.

No, it’s just International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Pirates were cool in like, 2004. Now it’s all about bandits in my opinion. Talk Like a Bandit Day anyone?

Just signed up to Pownce, which appears to be Twitter, with file sharing and without forcing incorrect grammar on the user. Also you can group your contacts into ‘sets’ which you choose yourself. At the moment it’s invitation only/join a waiting list. I set my facebook status to ‘Anyone on Pownce?’ and within half an…

Signing up to Second Life today, and the sign up form forces you to choose your gender: This is pretty normal for registration purposes. I’ve collected quite a few snapshots of similar ‘error’ messages (will add these to the post later), from places you really would think wouldn’t care what your gender is (weather sites?!).…