Friday, 5 January, 2007

PayPerPost backs out

Mike Arrington posts that the Performancing Metrics deal is off: It’s not often that a company announces the acquisition of another company and then subsequently walks away from the deal, but PayPerPost isn’t a typical kind of company. In a…

Thursday, 4 January, 2007

links for 2007-01-04

OpenGarden | It’s All In Your Head (tags: wiki opensource web2.0 cms) Google Tips no more (tags: google tips blake ross)

Google Tips no more

Google have removed their controversial ‘tips’ feature, according to FireFox dude Blake Ross: Google has removed the tips feature. Perhaps it was always intended as a test; I don’t know the official reason for its removal. In any case, thanks…

Wednesday, 3 January, 2007

Search Wikia Update

One of the earliest posts on hyprtext was about the proposed new community search engine proposed by Jimmy Wales. There was quite a lot of kerfuffle about it, largely due to confusion over Amazon’s involvement, and quite a lot of…

links for 2007-01-03

Word Count Journal (tags: word count journal wordpress) hyprtext » Blog Archive » Microformats (tags: microformats) hyprtext » Blog Archive » Did Wikipedia Really Ban Quatar? (tags: wikipedia quatar) DropSend acquisition talks fall through with YouSendIt (tags: dropsend yousendit) Anatomy…

Personalised Google by Default?

For some reason, whenever I have visited Google today, it has bounced me straight to – in other words, the Personalised Google page. This happens whether or not I am logged into my Google account. Is Google starting to…

Tuesday, 2 January, 2007

Google Analytics

For some reasons Google Analytics isn’t working properly on hyprtext. The background for the graphs are there, but no data appears on them! This worked perfectly in FF on XP. Is there some sort of issue with Ubuntu? [tags]google analytics,…

Word Count Journal

Word Count Journal might be a good option if you would like to start a blog, but aren’t sure how you will manage the words. A blogging NaNoWriMo, anyone? Sometimes a little bit really does go a long way. In…

links for 2007-01-02

Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker (tags: firefox microformat microformats mozilla semanticweb) Microformats: get in early « I’m Simon Dickson. (tags: microformats microformat simondickson) microformats (tags: microformats standards web2.0 semantic) The Simple Dollar » Building a Better Blog…