Monday, 7 January, 2008

links for 2008-01-07

Why Facebook wants to corner the market in personal info John Naughton on the Scoble/Facebook kerfuffle. (tags: observer scoble socialnetworking socialnetworks facebook plaxo) How Techmeme Homepage Changes Over Time – Video This Techmeme video clip captures 50 hours of Techmeme…

Sunday, 6 January, 2008

Ning and Porn

Ning founder Marc Andreessen has posted a response to the discussions about the fact that quite a bit of Ning’s traffic is as a result of ‘adult’ communities. Ning, remember, is the service that allows you to create your own…

links for 2008-01-06

Lunch_with_Maxwell.pdf (application/pdf Object) Piece by John Naughton on attending a function thrown by Robert Maxwell. Fascinating reading. (tags: robert+maxwell john+naughton) BarCamp wiki / BarCampPOIR8 The event follows the decision to launch a web-based channel as recommended by the Power of…

Saturday, 5 January, 2008

Swinging

Swinging Originally uploaded by DavePress Ben didn’t want to go on the big slide thing at Fermyn Woods today, so I felt the need to uphold the Briggs family honour. I think I did so well.

links for 2008-01-05

Asylum Great book review blog. (tags: books reviews blog) These Glory Days Excellent, thoughtful film review blog (tags: film movie review blog) Flipping the Linux switch: 5 tips every new Linux user should know – Download Squad Cool tips and…

Friday, 4 January, 2008

Organising my feeds

I recently undertook the task of organising all my feeds into folders in FeedDemon – before this I had just the one (very) long list of sites I checked, not broken up in any way. This had become unmanageable. So,…

links for 2008-01-04

Free Music Zilla: Free Music Downloader Freemusiczilla is desktop based software that basically lets you download any song you can stream on the Internet. (tags: music download mp3 free tools freeware software radio) Global Neighbourhoods: SAP Global Survey: Australia’s Lee…

Thursday, 3 January, 2008

Seariki

Seariki (a conflation of search and wiki) is a new China based search engine which provides a way of finding information in Wikipedia. The Wikipedia search itself can be slightly frustrating, in that if it can find an exact match…

Wikis – which is best?

Well, it’s a question. Wikis are funny things, and building communities around them can be quite tricky (although advice like this helps). More than any other types of website, wikis demand community interaction, indeed, they are nothing without it. There…