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I’ve bought a Mac!
Yes, for the first time in my life, I have bought a Mac – to be precise, a MacBook with 2.2Ghz, 120gb hard disk and a paltry 1gb RAM. That will be the first thing to be resolved, I reckon,…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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An online notebook
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links for 2008-01-29
Yay for Created in Birmingham! A joint Guardian Media Innovation Award Congratulations to Created in Birmingham! (tags: createdinbirmingham birminghamuk guardian) Quick, Easy and Fun – BarCampUKGovweb Shane McCracken from Gallomanor on the barcampukgovweb (tags: barcampukgovweb gallomanor) 11 Power Tips for…
Google launches UK politics site
Completely unrelated to the Google UK-hosted barcampukgovweb, I’m sure, but Google have launched a dedicated UK politics site, with lots of UK politics related widgets for your iGoogle page, and a YouTube channel. One of the widgets available is based…
Every community needs a killer app
One of the key challenges to establishing a community is attracting engagement – not just getting the numbers in of people signing up, but getting them to actively take part. One step to achieve this is through gradual culture change,…
Twitter100
This blog has a clear theme this morning. Here’s another tool that makes Twitter even more useful: Twitter100. It displays the latest updates from up to 100 of the people you follow on one page. It certainly makes following what’s…
Tweetmeme
Mike Butcher reports on TechCrunch UK about Tweetmeme, a new UK based service which provides updates as to what the hot discussions are on Twitter. A Techmeme for microbloggers, if you will. Having had a look at it this morning,…
Prologue – WordPress based distributed Twitter
Matt Mullenweg has announced over on the WordPress.com blog that Automattic, the company behind WP.com, Akismet and the driving force behind WordPress development, have created a new theme for WordPress. Whoopie-do, you might be thinking. But this theme is more…
Pageflakes screencast on blip.tv
I didn’t get on very well with YouTube, but have managed to get the Pageflakes screencast on my blip.tv channel. *** VIDEO DELETED BECAUSE IT WAS BORKED! ***
links for 2008-01-28
Results from Barcamp UK Gov SoSaidThe.Organization’s writeup of some of the barcamp outputs. (tags: barcampukgovweb) Barcamping with Government David Wilcox’s view of the great government barcamp! (tags: barcampukgovweb)
Pageflakes screencast
Quite a few people were interested in how the pageflake for the barcampukgovweb was set up, so I have prepared a screencast demonstrating the process. You can view the flash movie here. This file is quite big (c19mb) and I…