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links for 2006-02-20

wikiCalc Alpha Test Home Noteworthy for being a web spreadsheet service from the original author of Visicalc – the original spreadsheet app. (tags: internet office software web2.0 wiki)

links for 2006-02-19

coComment – clear conversation in the blogosphere Keep a track of your comments on other people’s blogs. (tags: blogging comments) You’re Safired! (tags: blogging kottke)

links for 2006-02-18

Cultural impact of blogging (tags: blogging) Stoppard on free Speech (tags: free speech stoppard) Simon Armitage on Ted Hughes (tags: reading books poetry armitage hughes) The Power of Website Approachability (tags: blogging approachability) Qumana Blog :: Qumana Beta Update Beta…

Forum entirely made in Ajax

K4 Bulletin Board entirely made in ajax, first forum to be fully transformed with ajax requiring no refreshing. read more | digg story Looks interesting – site is suffering from being dugg at the moment.  

Neville Hobson on FD beta 2

New FeedDemon beta released – actually, twice. Two versions came out on subsequent days this week. Beta 2 of FeedDemon 2, the RSS aggregator for Windows, was released this week. If you’ve been testing FD’s development versions since release 1.5,…

Qumana Beta 2 out now / BlogJet

Qumana Beta 2 has been released and it addresses the WordPress issue I (and many others) mentioned earlier. I must say I have been hugely impressed with the way the Qumana people have engaged with those offering feedback on their product. So, to keep it coming, here’s…

Junk Email

So, I had a quick look last night at the bottom of my Gmail window – where it says how much space my emails are taking up. Was shocked that it was 25% of the 2695 MB available. I thought…

links for 2006-02-17

Barlow & McParland get Forest job Hopefully just a short term measure (tags: forest football) Canned Hunting at its Cannedest (tags: cheney Quail) Cheney’s Canned Kill, and Other Hunting Excesses of the Bush Administration (tags: cheney quail) Ten Reasons to…

Email and Blogging

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that it is a good idea for a blogger to have his or her email address easily accessible. But what about when that email address isn’t one that a reader would want to use? I…

links for 2006-02-16

Oldham 3-0 Nottm Forest Pathetic (tags: football forest) The Art of Creating a Community (tags: community) ANN: FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2 (Build 2.0.0.13) (tags: feeddemon rss) Guess what’s waiting… (tags: firefox google toolbar) Amazon plans music service to rival iPod…

Qumana

Well, this is my first post with Qumana (Version 3 beta 1), a free desktop offline blog post editor. It’s pretty cool, though I do have some issues with it. Feature wise, it does everything you would expect, offering a…

links for 2006-02-15

dPolls.com Wasn’t working at 9.00am this morning… (tags: web2.0 polls) Qumana blog editor and blogging tools Is this always free? Seems like a worthy competitor to Blogjet… (tags: blogging software) Measure Map (tags: blogging web2.0 google stats) Microsoft Monitor: What…

links for 2006-02-14

Common sense on free speech (tags: naughton free speech) From a garage studio in Yorkshire, Larkin speaks again (tags: larkin) Library Thing – keep your book records online (tags: web2.0 books rss)

de.icio.us daily post

I have been playing with the daily post setting on del.icio.us and tonight I’ll find out if it is going to work… Basically, the daily post spits out a post to your blog containing all the sites I linked to…

Links 13/2/06

Listable is a Web 2.0 thing for making tagged community lists. Hmm. They do have a rather nice list of Web 2.0 sites though. Dave Winer notices how slowly Gmail is recently. It’s a nightmare – think the Google Talk…

Wikis

I have needed a simple wiki solution for a little problem of mine, and I have found just what I was after. I just needed a page or two that could be easily edited for the handful of people who…

Weird Spam

This is the strangest bit of comment spam I think I have ever got: You are no way on the 300th page of Google – in fact, your on the first and number 2 for my search “successful blogging” –…

Recovered

after a particularly nasty bout of the winter vomit flu, which has obviously spread from the West Midlands to the Welsh borders. The few things I have read on the web recently have been posted to del.icio.us. I’ll try and…

Links 2/2/06

How to Make Wikipedia better Deliciousing – Scoble wonders how to use del.icio.us best. I had a think. Why not post anything you find interesting to del.icio.us, then later on, review them and post the best of the bunch on…

Links 1/2/06

Pinch, punch, first of the month. Seamonkey released The one that got away – Philip Cowley on Blair’s defeats last night. Mr Cowley was my tutor at university in Hull. How to Manage Your Draft Blog Posts Council mumbles Microsoft…