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The thinking man (or woman)’s YouTube.
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SearchEngineLand’s take on Search Wikia
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Aggregation of what people are sharing on Google Reader. Cool. Need more people signed up though. Also could do with being opened up with shared links on other RSS readers like Newsgator. What about del.icio.us etc too?
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PayPal has taken additional steps to make it easier for developers to work with non-profit organizations for accepting donations online.
Month: January 2008
The Innocents
Just finished watching The Innocents, the 1961 film based on Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. Here‘s the IMDB link to find out more, or there’s always Wikipedia.
It really is one of the scariest things I think I have ever seen. There’s a great thread on Palimpsest discussing the movie.
links for 2008-01-08
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Michael Arrington trashes the alpha launch of Wikia Search, the ‘human powered search engine’.
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Mashable’s view on Wikia Search
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A more positive view of Wikia Search from Matt Mullenweg
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After the recent discussion about Ning and porn, it looks like educators are taking up Ning in significant numbers.
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Great extension for FireFox that runs Twitter in a sidebar. Thanks to Jeremy Gould for the tip.
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The Arts Council has announced that Dedalus, which was to celebrate 25 years of publishing later this year, is to lose its funding from January. The campaign to save the publishers starts here!
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Proof (as if it were required!) that Jeremy Clarkson is indeed a twat.
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The key to using Google Docs (GDocs) document editing effectively is to understand that it’s a web word processor rather than an outright replacement for full-featured desktop word processors like Microsoft Word.
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“When you launch a new search engine, admitting defeat at the outset isn’t exactly a promising start. Jimmy Wales founder of Wikia Search–which launches today–did just that.”
Wikia Search Launches
There has been a flurry of largely negative postings about the newly launched alpha of Wikia Search – Jimmy Wales’ human powered search engine. I’ve bookmarked quite a few at del.icio.us, which will pop up on this blog around midnight tonight.
Phil Bradley has a nice little summary though:
Results are fairly basic, with a title, summary, URL, cached version and some sort of rating. Here’s the one for the top ranking site relating to Web 2.0 – see if you can work out what it means! That is so going to keep the SEO bods intrigued. There’s also a star rating system, which you can click on, but you get a message saying that they don’t actually do anything yet. Please – either make them do something or take them away until they are ready to do something.
A grand day out
Had a lovely day yesterday in the glorious sunshine. We visited the Suffolk coast, at Dunwich Heath and Southwold, and had a marvelous time. Here’s some photographic evidence. There’s more, should you want it, on my Flickrstream.
