There have been some considered and thoughtful posts on the implications of social media recently (and some silliness too). I like these two viewpoints for inspiring intelligent discussion on some of the practical issues arising Read More

Normally I'd shy away from ever claiming a 'world's first' - someone, somewhere must surely have got there first? But in this instance we think we are on solid ground. Working with the team at Mediacom we have been busy putting the finishing touches Read More

Looks like everyone needs a healthy developer ecosystem these days (except Skype). Yesterday, Vivek Kundra, CIO of the US Govt announced their very own AppStore for government cloud services, called Apps.gov. Coverage here in the New York Times, Read More

Andrew recently presented at the UK launch of Silverlight 3. Looks like Microsoft's very excellent Channel9 were in attendance in the form of Mike Taulty, and grabbed a quick interview with Andrew and all the other speakers, here's the link. UPDATED: Read More

A few months back we announced the PageLife platform for producing e-Magazines - or digital magazines - built using Microsoft Silverlight technology. So it is interesting to note a couple of pieces around the topic of e-Magazines. ReadWriteWeb has penned Read More

Always had a soft spot for compelling data visualization. The Guardian's Charles Arthur has a post on how people are using source data from the Guardian's Datastore to re-package and re-present data on the MP's expenses furore here in the UK. Read More

The designers and developers who work buried deep below ground in the Silverlight mines here at Metia have unearthed a rich vein in PageLife. Responding to some of our customers' requirement to explain their products or services via a structured, narrative Read More

Thanks to Guy Clapperton for pointing out this great post on the Online Journalism Blog. The consistency with which UK newspapers forbid links to their sites is amazing. I'd guess the in-house lawyers were all out on a libel case when the Internet 101 Read More