An online notebook
Scribd is a cool service which acts as a YouTube for documents. To quote their FAQs: Scribd lets you publish and discover documents online. It is like a big online library where anyone can upload. We make use of a custom Flash document viewer that lets you display documents right in your Web browser. There … Keep reading
As I haven’t posted for a little while I thought I may as well mention the little site I was working on last wekk, LGNews. It’s a WordPress installation that aggregates various news feeds. To be honest, I don’t like it too much, thogh much of the problem seems to be that a couple of … Keep reading
Hurrah! WordPress now has a decent plugin directory!
Couple of search related stories here, following my recent posting on whether or not search is broken. Mike Arrington announces that Euekster have managed to grab $5.5 million in funding. One of their products is a system for creating site specific search engines called Swickis, which also allows some user contributions in the form of voting … Keep reading
From the BBC: Entertainment giant Viacom Media says it will sue web search engine Google and its video-sharing website YouTube for $1bn (£517m). Viacom, which owns MTV and Nickelodeon, says YouTube uses its shows illegally. Viacom alleges that about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes have been loaded onto YouTube’s site and viewed more than … Keep reading