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There has been much discussion of late about Google’s antics in providing ‘tips’ at the top of searches. For example, try running a search on the word ‘blogging‘. What’s that, just under the sponsored links? A tip telling us to…

I wrote a couple of days ago about the purchase of Performancing Metrics by PayPerPost. The Performancing blog editor and advertising partnership programme were to be continued by the same team under different banners. Well, the blog editor is now…

PayPerPost, the people who line up advertisers to pay bloggers to write nicely about their products, have bought Performancing.com – specifically the website and the Metrics system. Performancing for FireFox and the Performancing Partners advertising programme will continue under a…

Finally have Ubuntu talking to the internet! Woo-hoo! [tags]ubuntu, linux[/tags]

Jimmy Wales is planning a search engine with Amazon. I’ve written more over at Hyprtext.

Jimmy Wales, it would appear, is planning a search engine, along with his chums at Amazon, through his for-profit venture, Wikia. Mr Wales has begun working on a search engine that exploits the same user-based technology as his open-access encyclopaedia,…

Why is it that NONE of the recent new functionality has hit my Gmail account yet? Even Mrs Dave’s account is up-to-date with all the cool stuff Google have been adding of late – and by her own admission, she…

Shel and Neville at the For Immediate Release podcast interview Steve Rubel. Interesting stuff.

I’ve been beavering away on a new collaborative blogging project, which is called hyprtext. It’s going to be covering web and tech news, mainly. The feed is at I’ve already signed someone up to cover copyleft and drm issues…

 Google have finally got round to releasing the brand spanking new Blogger. They’ve been justifiably criticised over the lack of movement on the product since acquisition, and have since been easily overtaken by the likes of WordPress.com and TypePad. Even…

Read/WriteWeb have another of their articles trying to predict what a Google-produced operating system might be like. There’s no reason to suggest that Google are even developing such a thing, but that doesn’t stop the guessing game being fun. Their…