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links for 2006-04-05

Blogbar is a free search engine bar for inclusion in your blog and/or website! (tags: blogging search technorati) Micro Persuasion: Ten Feedburner Hacks (tags: blogging feed rss web2.0) AnandTech – Freeware programs and applications (tags: free software) How I Work:…

Zoho

Zoho looks like it offers some interesting online applications, the word processor looks especially good as is an alternative for those who can’t get Writely accounts at the moment because of the post Google purchase embargo on new users. [tags]zoho[/tags]

Qumana/Lycos deal

Looks like Qumana has been bought up by arranged a distribution deal with Lycos, if this URL is anything to go by. Nothing on the Qumana blog yet. Mark Evans has some detail. [tags]qumana, lycos[/tags]

01:02:03 04/05/06

Robert Scoble posts on the fun they are having over the pond with the fun being had early yesterday morning with the time and date – at two minutes and three seconds passed 1am in American format it appears as…

links for 2006-04-04

Why organisations are right to ban Skype (tags: voip skype) Megite Technology News: What’s Happening Right Now (tags: aggregator rss AJAX news)

To Digg, or not to Digg?

Well, it’s certainly a question. When I load up my RSS aggregator (currently Bloglines – though this could change when the UK finally gets the new Newsgator look) there are always new Digg entries. When I leave it for a…

Google Homepage Directory

Google have added a directory of possible services to their personal homepage, as announced on their official blog. It provides a much wider variety of easy-to-add content than before, but doesn’t stop the homepage being a pretty static and dull…

links for 2006-03-31

Google PageRank Checker – Check Google page rank of any web pages (tags: free google search software) TechCrunch » The State of Online Feed Readers (tags: reader feed RSS)

links for 2006-03-30

What’s eating Microsoft? (tags: windows microsoft) WordPress Development Blog › Widgets Plugin (tags: wordpress) 10 Ways To Lose RSS Subscribers | Performancing.com (tags: blogging rss)

Eponym

Eponym is a new hosted blog service, and a direct competitor with Blogger. It’s nice and easy to use, and it’s really quick to set up a new blog – like I did (check out that nice Slashdot-esque theme). My one…

Even Microsoft Hates IE

As spotted by Google Blogoscoped, this is from a CSS comment on Microsoft’s website: /* fix for the IE 1px-off margin error */ * html .StupidIEMarginHack { margin-right: 1px; }

Government sites fail web tests

According to the BBC: More than half of government and council websites contain errors and cause problems for disabled people, research shows. Some 60% of UK government websites contain HTML errors, according to a study by the University of Southampton.…

links for 2006-03-29

Touchstone – Are you paying attention? (tags: aggregator AJAX blogging news rss web2.0) Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » So what now? (tags: dvb digital tv) Search Engines :: Mozilla Update List of search tools for Firefox (tags: browsers extensions…

Firefoxbot

Daveybot provides a great round up of his Firefox set-up. Have pinched a few of those extensions for myself. [tags]firefox, extensions[/tags]

links for 2006-03-28

Evoca – Easily create, organize, share and search voice recordings. (tags: podcasting blogging rss) Alertbear – The free Windows RSS reader that offers a true river of news (tags: blogging news rss) www.centos.org – News – CentOS in the News…

Miliband blog costs £6k

Apparently the blog run by David Miliband, the UK government’s “Minister of Communities and Local Government”, costs the taxpayer £6,000 – whether that was a one off payment or an ongoing annual fee it doesn’t say. Clearly the government’s ability…

links for 2006-03-27

Netvibes (tags: aggregator AJAX rss web2.0 software) Keotag – tag search multiple engines and tag generators (tags: search web2.0 tags)

FeedDemon 2 now released

Nick Bradbury has announced the release of the final version of FeedDemon 2. It is such a great piece of software – I am hoping that when my new PC arrives, there will be a Linux equivalent that is as…

Spam

Akismet caught its first attempt at comment spam today – the first spam I have had on this blog since it was set up. Nice to see it working so well – and I guess it means that I must…

links for 2006-03-24

Micro Persuasion: Newsgator Upgrades Outlook, Desktop, Online Clients Newsgator gets a facelift (tags: rss)