Sunday, December 30

Lexdon is reporting that Microsoft is forming a stronger relationship with Indian development powerhouse, Infosys. Im sure Im not the only one who has some big concerns with the level of quality churned out by the likes of Infosys and Wipro, and cant help wondering if things are set to get worse. Afterall Microsoft had a hard enough time turning out software without critical flaws when IT WAS paying its developers a decent wage.

Friday, December 28

Its almost becoming a joke now, it seems that companies are completely unable to keep their customers information safe. This comes as the news that Skipton, a UK building society has misplaced customer information.

The real question is why the government or whoever isn't fining these companies. Its probably because the UK government has admitted that its misplaced millions of records of data concerning parents, and child support payments (you know, that thing that you have to pay your ex-wife so she can by the latest xbox).
As well as being addicted to the web, I'm also a keen property developer. So I took great interested when RightMove, a UK property website completely overhauled its design, embracing Web 2.0.

In my opinion the site looks a lot clearer now, I did however like the layout of the old site with the floorplans etc all in the same place.

One problem persists however, and that is the fact that lots of estate agents seem intent on not putting up the full details of a property, and until this is overcome the site will never fulfill its true potential.

Wednesday, December 12

GlaxoSmithKline seems to have revamped their website. Interestingly theyve added an Ajax story browser to the main page. The site itself tries its best to make you think they are a soft company, but in truth I imagine they are quite opposite, afterall they charge people to stay alive.

Another interesting point is the site is littered with spelling mistakes! Oops!
Interesting that the darling of the internet world, Facebook, has a rather murky past. According to this article about the history of facebook, there might be some truth to stories that Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea.... interesting, but Im sure he can afford lawyers to make sure he keeps it!