Dave

Here’s a few items that have caught my eye today: Ning – the do it yourself social networking platform – now makes it possible to add audio to your networks, something that was seriously lacking before. Now music, podcasts and…

I’ve created a new logo for LGNewMedia as part of the redesign of the site, so it’s a little more along the lines of that used for LGSpace. I use the ‘Crystal Clear’ graphics set as a source, which can…

I’ve been redesigning the layout for this blog, using a cool new theme by Andreas Viklund. I like the fact that the whole width of the screen is used, and having two sidebars means that I can pack in some…

Some great notes on what you can do to make your wikis a success. Via Beth Kanter.

Google’s been doing plenty of work, and buying, to create an office suite which runs online. Those who see it as a potential Microsoft killer are always challenged on the fact that the online tools are great while you have…

Two fairly similar services here, brought to my attention by the ever reliable TechCrunch. Demofuse allows you to create ‘tours’ of your websites, to demonstrate functionality, say. It looks very useful indeed, and will be something I will be using…

Jason Calacanis has launched Mahalo, a human edited search engine, based on the MediaWiki platform used by, amongst others, Wikipedia. It’s funny, I remembered immediately the blog post Jason wrote about buying the Mahalo domain and not knowing what to…

A flare-up of my blood sugar levels meant I had the pleasure of spending a couple of nights at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital last week, leaving me with stacks of RSS feeds to get through today, when I could face…

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 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 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…

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 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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

Right, the virtual community is now live, kinda. You can find it at Be warned: it isn’t pretty. But prettiness can come later. So, the point of this site is to create a community platform using different social media…

Warning: mildly incoherent rambling ahead… I’ve been giving a lot of thought recently to what the best way of creating online communities are. This is partly Simon Dickson’s fault. Back in March, Simon wrote, in a post titled “Because you…