Wednesday, 31 January, 2007

Mac and PC

I really couldn’t think of a better pair than Mitchell and Webb to do the Mac and PC thing for the Apple adverts. Still, they’re a bit annoying. The ads, I mean, not Mitchell and Webb. All this stuff about…

Tuesday, 30 January, 2007

Zoho Notebook

Zoho Notebook looks like yet another very cool web app – they don’t seem to be putting a step wrong at the moment. It’s in private alpha at the moment – Hopefully I will soon get in for a play…

Why I love WordPress 2.1

Visitors to my blog site, rather than just RSS readers, will have noticed a slight change on the right hand side of the site this evening – the archives and categories have just got a lot bigger! This is because…

Friday, 26 January, 2007

Comment deletion

Steve Rubel asks why it is that not many blogging and other social media platforms allow commenters to edit or delete the comments they make on community based sites. Everyone sticks their foot in it from time to time. If…

Google and Attention

Great post by Sam Sethi at Vecosys on Google and attention: For the last two years I have been tracking a terminology called attention metadata. About 12 months ago some friends and I became really excited about the possibilities of…

Amazon launches Amapedia

Amazon have launched a new site, Amapedia, which is a wiki for products. Nice idea. Effectively, it gives people a chance to write about the stuff they like which can be bought from Amazon. I guess that means writing about…

If British politics is bad…

…then imagine how bad things are in the states. From The Guardian: The Democratic senator, Barack Obama, has launched an aggressive counter-attack against rumours that he is a Muslim and was educated at a madrasa in Indonesia…Mr Obama’s spokesman said…

Thursday, 25 January, 2007

Need a Web 2.0 Name?

The Web 2.0 Company Name Generator is a cool and amusing little site. As the site says: Need a name for your Web 2.0 company? Try this handy name generator. Here’s some that I got: ZoomworksBuzzfishFlashdogThoughttuneQuambeeFlashcatNpathSkambaChatterpulseQuimia That last one is…

Wednesday, 24 January, 2007

Link posts

Since the death of the previous blog, I cancelled the regular posting of my daily del.icio.us links. When I set it up I thought it would be an interesting reminder for me of the stuff I thought was worth reading,…