Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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TwitterHack

Twitterhack is a new blog I have started. And it’s horrible.   I hate ads on blogs, and this one has lots of them. It even has ads in the RSS, and the RSS isn’t even full text! Here’s why…

FriendConnect

I hadn’t really had a chance to have a proper play with FriendConnect before today. It’s basically a Google service that lets you add social functionality to your website, based on the OpenSocial framework. This means that if you have…

Bookmarks for December 28th through December 30th

Stuff I have bookmarked for December 28th through December 30th: Oxite – Lab – MIX Online – Microsoft's open source blog platform / CMS? Front Seat – Software for Civic Life – "Front Seat is a civic software company and…

Community facilitators

From Rich Millington: A moderator keeps things normal. A moderator removes the extremes from the community. Moderating isn’t as hard as moderators would have you believe. You can typically find community members to do it. A facilitator makes it easier…

Bookmarks for December 21st through December 28th

Stuff I have bookmarked for December 21st through December 28th: MoMB Labs | Twitter 100 – 100 of the best Twitter services How to make a Delicious “plugin” for Chrome – Simple bookmarklet to use delicious in Google's Chrome browser Pods…

Tom Watson’s Christmas Message

Our Minister for Digital Engagement’s blog has a stark message: Globalisation in a connected world did for Woolies. When my son is a teenager, his friends will arrange to meet online and share their music tastes before pressing the ‘buy’…

Links and Twitter

Steve Dale writes about his uneasiness with a new Twitter mashup service, Twitchboard, which automates the posting of content from Twitter to other social web services. At the moment, all it does is links: if you post a URL to…

Comments in the crowd

Photo credit: Greenboy Great post by Steph on comments, community and moderation: …as more people start to see the web as place for self-expression in their own spaces and other people’s, hearing the interesting voices in the crowd is only…

Some Holiday Picks

Photo credit: Ravages I’ve seen some interesting stuff pop up in my RSS over the last few days – here’s some of them: Shel Holtz has a really interesting post about using Ning as a communication and collaboration platform for…