Philip John

Category: Rants

  • Government asks for 2Mbps, Virgin offers 200Mbps

    First, let’s forget those who don’t want broadband for a second and consider only those who have and use broadband services. I’ll keep this short. How can the UK Government possibly think that asking for 2Mbps in it’s preliminary Digital Britain report is anywhere near acceptable? Virgin, theoretically, can achieve 200Mbps with their fibre (aka…

  • The Guardian should know better

    I like the Guardian, probably because it’s so tech savvy, but I was dissapointed reading Simon Hoggart’s column (via The Lichfield Blog) having a bit of a moan about Michael Fabricant MP’s use of Twitter. Hoggart takes the typical response to seeing Twitter; “I don’t understand it, therefore it’s just full of toilet trip talk…

  • Microsoft, Yahoo Deal Would Strengthen Google

    I’m getting might pissed off with all this talk about some “deal” between Microsoft and Yahoo now. I don’t see how Microsoft forking out $15 billion for Yahoo’s search business would have any impact on Google‘s share. Sure, on paper, Yahoo’s share would drop to 0% and Microsoft would jump from 8.5% to 29%, but…

  • LinkedIn Squatting: Claim a Company for Your Own!

    According to LinkedIn, I am now the proud owner of a company. How so? Because I told them I was. Why did they believe me? Because they didn’t bother to check. I gave them an e-mail address that in no way resembling the company’s web address and in return they let me create and play…

  • ARGH! Where’s your RSS feed?!

    Seriously, folks, if you’re going to have a blog you need to give me your RSS feed. As I scan the net for news that interests me I get increasingly frustrated with the number of times I found myself looking around for the RSS feed. A blog isn’t a blog without an RSS feed. That’s…

  • Web Startups are Threatening the Future of the ‘Net

    As we read about lay-offs at web companies and the big ‘crunch’ are web start-ups threatening to create a reputation for the internet as a harbour of bad business decision-makers?

  • Yahoo!’s Delicious Fails at Usability

    Not completely, but enough for me to blog about it. When making changes to your site infrastructure or architecture, it’s important to consider links coming into your site. For example, I may want to change the URL structure for my blog posts, to include the year and month in which they were posted. This post’s…

  • Stop calling Chrome an operating system, it’s JUST A BROWSER!

    Why is it so many people are jumping up and down shouting “OPERATING SYSTEM” now that Chrome is out. I mean come on, out of all the big four (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera) it’s the most basic browser you can possible get. I has a grand total of 4 options (okay, I’m exaggerating slightly) and…

  • Block the rank monitoring tools!

    Via Search Roundtable I learn that a number of WebPosition Gold customers are finding the software is being blocked by Google. It’s got many worried especially as it seems to be affecting other rank checking tools. Has Google finally shut these tools down? If that is the case, so what? I can’t remember the last…