For me, one of the best talks at this month’s Future of Web Apps Expo in London.

Amazon UK has lowered it’s minimum Super Saver free shipping order amount from £15 to £5. This shows great timing for those preparing to purchase Christmas presents (we did almost all of our chrimbo shopping on Amazon last year). Superb.

Ok, this has been linked all over the place - it’s over 600k views is testament to that - but it’s worth archiving for future enjoyment:

TechCrunch is reporting that MySpace:

accounted for about $850 million in revenues last fiscal year (which ended in June), and is projected to hit $1 billion next year.

Holy crap. This is significant, if only because so many people put MySpace on its deathbed once Facebook began making ground as the Social Network du jour. (Facebook got 41 million unique visitors last month, MySpace 71 according to comScore.)

The fact here is that, as far as I’m concerned, these two have significant differences: I don’t know anyone who would go to MySpace to find old school friends (although I have been found by one a couple of years ago), and nor do I think anyone would go to Facebook to find cool new music (plenty of which has been found, and continues to exist, on MySpace).

It’ll be interesting to see where we stand - and what new players are on the block - come this time next year.

You know your blog has been dormant for too long when even the spambots don’t bother commenting for 2 months…

I attended the Future of Web Apps again this week, in London, and two talks inspired, and shamed, me into dusting off my copy of Ecto and beginning to blog again. Not simply for the sake of writing, but for the sake of engaging with the community that, despite increasing boredom on my part from the ever-present egos and arseholes that inhabit message boards and comment trails, I belong to.

So there you go. I won’t go into what I’ve been up to since April - it’s nothing interesting, believe me - and will instead hope towards more frequent updates in the future.