Sunday, 27 May, 2007

Sometimes Search IS Broken!

Now, this is the future of web search: How can you really claim to explore the web when your search engine only returns the results you are looking for? You can’t. That’s why ACrappySearchEngine.com returns results from all across the…

coRank

CoRank is a site which lets you create your own social bookmarking sites, which are hosted at yoursite.corank.com – a similar kind of thing to what Ning does with social networks. This is a great way for small groups to…

Operator11

Operator11 looks like a truly groundbreaking social web service: it’s a social television network. It’s like a live version of YouTube (though you can upload preproduced video if you want) but what makes it a real killer for me is…

Tuesday, 22 May, 2007

LGSpace – coming soon!

Am currently beavering away on my latest project in the LG* stable. Let me know in the comments if you would like to be involved in development testing, or would just like to know more! [tags]lgspace[/tags]

Zoho Notebook (beta)

Zoho are one of my favourite web 2.0 companies. They provide pretty much best of breed web applications: cool stuff like a word processor, a spreadsheet, presentations, online meetings, wikis, and oodles of other stuff Anyway, their latest little number…

Monday, 21 May, 2007

Is Public Sector Blogging Possible?

There has been a mini-storm this weekend in the UK public sector blogosphere about whether or not it’s actually possible for people working for the government can actually blog in any meaningful way without fear of reprisals, whether from their…

Friday, 18 May, 2007

LocalGovGlossary now in LGSearch

The Local Government Glossary wiki project is going well, with four volunteers already adding content. As this is an ever growing, and potentially significant resource, I’ve added the wiki to LGSearch.

Wednesday, 16 May, 2007

Bubbl.us – online mind mapping

Bubbl.us is a great service. It allows you to create mind maps within your web browser. You can share them with other people, and collaborate on them too. A great way of mapping out projects with people who aren’t geographically…

Are You Connected?

Nice article from The Guardian: This week came the news that “William Wales” had joined the social networking site Facebook. Yesterday there was much argument about whether it was a hoax or not. Would Prince William really post a profile…

WordPress 2.2

There’s a new version of WordPress out for those who host their own blogs. The main change seems to be the incorporation of the widgets plugin as a part of the base code. Dougal Campbell lists the main changes: Atom…