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Google Socialstream

Google is working on a new social network with Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institut called: Socialstream. Video below. It seems like it will be more of an aggregator, bringing content together from across different social networks and services. Tags:…

Docstoc

Docstoc, currently in private beta looks very interesting as a competitor to Scribd, the ‘YouTube for documents’. The video below shows how Docstoc works. [youtube GLWhgu1trpA] Tags: docstoc, srcibd

Cheers, Gears

Following up on previous posts about Google Gears, the web service that lets you bring your online world offline, I thought I ought to post about a couple more examples of it being used. Both have popped up on the…

Change2

For a while I have been wanting to put all the bits of work I do on social media into a little basket, just to organise it and let people know that the same person is behind them all. In…

Facebook Application Spam

I like FaceBook, though I don’t log in nearly as often as I ought to, so as to make the most of the service. One of the reasons that I don’t, though, are the tonnes of invitations I get to…

Social Networking Video

Apologies for the lack of updates lately, have been busy doing other things. Here’s the latest video from Common Craft, to make up for it. It’s a plain speaking guide to social networking. Cool! [youtube 6a_KF7TYKVc]

Videos!

I’ve been adding plenty of video’s to my VodPod, but of course they don’t appear in the RSS feed, so those that don’t regularly visit the site won’t know they are there. So, here’s a list of some of the video’s…

A perfect blog post

Evan Davis, BBC News’ economics guy, has a pretty good blog called Evanomics (nice). Yesterday he posted on the hot topic of the moment, private equity. And as a blog post, for me it is pretty close to perfect. For…

A knowledge management search engine

The latest stage of my attempt to take over the world of vertical search is KMSearch, which focuses on knowledge management resources. As well as the search engine, there is a wiki to manage the site, which includes the list…

The importance of the browser

Simon Dickson points out that the latest Beta of Safari, the web browser for the MacOS operating system, has now been ported to Windows. I’ve just installed the new public beta of Apple’s Safari browser on my Windows PC. It…

Web Development Resources

Marc Andreessen, one of the trailblazers of the web – he was the co-author of Mosaic, the first mass market web browser, as well as a founder of Netscape (find out more at his Wikipedia entry) – has started his own blog.…

BookZilla

BookZilla is another customised search site, like LGSearch, that I knocked together this afternoon. I think it is pretty obvious what it does. I’m running it through Palimpsest, the books discussion site I facilitate, with any ad revenue going towards the…

BookZilla

BookZilla is another customised search site, like LGSearch, that I knocked together this afternoon. I think it is pretty obvious what it does. I’m running it through Palimpsest, the books discussion site I facilitate, with any ad revenue going towards the…

Hospital Waiting Room Blogging?

Iain Dale points to something which I thought would be very interesting: If you want to know why the NHS is in an administrative mess read THIS post on the 2020health.org site. It is a live ‘waiting room’ blog. Although,…

Movable Type now Open Source

Movable Type is the blogging engine used by TypePad blogs, and is available for download and installation on your own server. Think of the relationship between the two being like WordPress.com and WordPress.org. Movable Type and TypePad (as well as…

Gearing Up

Google Gears is already being picked up by third party developers, as reported by LifeHacker. Remember the Milk is a nice online social task (or todo list) manager. Only now it’s offline too. As reported on the Remember the Milk…

From Small Acorns…

Whilst not quite making me a dotcom millionaire, it was still very gratifying and exciting to get a cheque from Google through the post – thanks to the adverts on LGSearch. The amount was pretty small, but it pays for…