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It looks like there will soon be a new contender in the hosted blog platform sphere. Blogsmith, the engine which was designed to run Weblogs Inc, Jason Calacanis‘ early blog network which was subsequently bought up by AOL. WordPress seems…

Here’s the pathetic list of books I managed to read this year. Excuses: new job, wedding, house move. 11. The Prone Gunman – Jean-Patrick Manchette10. He Died With His Eyes Open – Derek Raymond9. The Damned United – David Peace8.…

I want to watch this video in FireFox on Ubuntu. Anyone know how I can? Technorati Tags: scobleshow, sam sethi, quicktime, ubuntu

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.