An online notebook
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An online notebook
Mike Butcher is the editor of TechCrunch UK, and keeps his eye on the new tech startups in this country and across Europe. Here he is interviewed by Robert Scoble. Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be…
WordPress powers Brazilian ministry Simon Dickson points to another use of WordPress within government. It’s such a quick and easy, yet powerful way, of putting together a sophisticated web presence. (tags: wordpress simondickson)
What does the ideal online collaboration model look like? Much of the work I am involved with at the moment concerns helping people work better with one another using online tools, both in local government and (once we have the…
Are, according to Download Squad: Acrobat Reader iTunes Real Player Internet Explorer Outlook Some pretty easy targets there. I use only iTunes out of this list on a regular basis, which I have to because I have an iPod, as…
It’s your business « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger Robert Scoble gives us the background to his future career plans. Is this any of our business? Perhaps the fact that TechCrunch leaked it in the middle of LeWeb3 makes it…
I’ve been playing around with Ning a little this morning, and am really impressed with it, not least because now users can create subgroups within a community. Add that to blogs, forums, photo and video uploading and plenty of RSS…
Heh. Social media can be used to fight crime. I didn’t realise, but the photo of John and Anne Darwin taken in Panama, was actually found via Google’s image search, on the website for the company they used to relocate.…
are, according to FeedDemon:
…that’s occurred to me since being at Online Information last week. People still seem to be under the impression that having a forum on a website, whether internal or external, means you have a community. You don’t. A community needs…
🙂 Via Crunchnotes.
Another super video explaining blogs – soon the Common Craft guys will have covered the whole of Web 2.0! [youtube:] I wonder just how much paid work has come their way since they started doing these free tutorials? Quite a…
Funny song – there is so going to be another crash soon. [youtube:]
Knives and restaurants Euan MacIntosh’s take on Jimmy Wales’ grear metaphor on how freeing people’s use of the web is like letting folk use knives in restaurants. (tags: jimmywales wikia wikipedia freeweb)
Light blogging ahead as I am going to be at the Online Information conference this week. I won’t be taking my laptop with me, but will be twittering my thoughts via my Palm, so do check that out.
A Health 2.0 Overview, Through the Eyes of a New Diabetic Richard MacManus on the various sites out there for diabetics. I’ve been looking for similar stuff as a relatively recently diagnosed type 1 diabetic myself. (tags: web2.0 diabetes) BBC,…
KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion! This service allows you to download videos from streaming sites like YouTube to your computer, meaning that you can embed them in other media, like Powerpoint presentations for example. Useful!…
Wow. The post I wrote this morning on my ITunes problem has already been republished by a splogger. They work fast, these guys. And at least they linked back to here 😉
Inspired by the recent screenwriters’ strike in Hollywood – what if bloggers refused to blog? [youtube:] Via Matt Mullenweg.
I’m not having a lot of luck, technology-wise, at the moment. After all my problems with FireFox, it’s now ITunes’ turn to start playing up. I thought it had been behaving itself for a while… Anyway, last night I bought…
Contact | The Connected Republic “This site was set up with aim of creating a community of innovators interested in the scope for transforming the public sector.” Looks good, and WordPress based. Via Jeremy Gould. (tags: community publicsector wordpress connectedrepublic…