To my mind, the greatest change in the way the software and web world actually works has been the development of apps/gadgets/plugins etc, call them what you will.
The concept is simple – a developer creating a service, be it a web site, a mobile phone or whatever, will only create a certain number of features, and may then work to create new features one at a time. Traditionally if you wanted to add lots of features you needed lots of people working for you to do it. Continue reading The Google Apps store
www.google.com, www.bbc.co.uk… Ask somebody twenty years ago what these pieces of information meant, and nobody would have had a clue. Ten years ago, maybe 35% might have known, but today nearly everybody knows these are addresses of websites, or for the geeky amongst us the URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
Every website has a URL and if you have set up a blog (as discussed in my last post) this will be something along the lines of myblog.wordpress.com. As I mentioned in my last post, I have now moved my blog to my own web hosting, and one of the advantages is that the URL is simply www.mrben1.co.uk, using my own domain name rather than wordpress.com. Continue reading What’s the name of your domain?
