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Contactify

Contactify is a great little service which gets around the old problem of putting your email address on a web page. How it works is this: you register and provide your details, and Contactify provides you with a URL which…

Using Google’s Apps

Conducted by Rajen Sheth, manager of Google’s enterprise products, this video runs for nearly 18 minutes and covers everything from the personalized start page to the collaboration tools in apps like Google Docs and Spreadsheets. There’s also a heavy focus…

MySpace Party

…but not at MyHouse, thankfully. The BBC reports: A 17-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage in connection with a house party which left a family home wrecked. About 200 youngsters damaged Alan and Elaine Bell’s home…

WriteWith – truly collaborative writing

Mike Arrington writes about WriteWith, a collaborative writing authoring platform which combines wikis, forums and ajax document editing. Once you have finished writing, the document can be exported to MS Office or Openoffice.org format, or even published to a blog.…

The Power of Information

The Cabinet Office are launching a review into how social media can improve public engagement and empowerment: Minister for the Cabinet Office Hilary Armstrong wants Government to harness the phenomenon of internet advice sharing sites and empower people with information…

Blogpolitic

Oliver Kamm in The Guardian: In its paucity of coverage and predictability of conclusions, the blogosphere provides a parody of democratic deliberation. But it gets worse. Politics, wrote the philosopher Michael Oakeshott, is a conversation, not an argument. The conversation…