Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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What I Use

I thought it might be of use to people as an introduction to social media tools if I produced a list of some of the stuff I use on a regular basis. So here goes. I use FeedDemon to read…

Scribd

Scribd is a cool service which acts as a YouTube for documents. To quote their FAQs: Scribd lets you publish and discover documents online. It is like a big online library where anyone can upload. We make use of a…

LGNews

As I haven’t posted for a little while I thought I may as well mention the little site I was working on last wekk, LGNews. It’s a WordPress installation that aggregates various news feeds. To be honest, I don’t like…

The Growing Search Space

Couple of search related stories here, following my recent posting on whether or not search is broken. Mike Arrington announces that Euekster have managed to grab $5.5 million in funding. One of their products is a system for creating site specific…

Viacom will sue YouTube

From the BBC: Entertainment giant Viacom Media says it will sue web search engine Google and its video-sharing website YouTube for $1bn (£517m). Viacom, which owns MTV and Nickelodeon, says YouTube uses its shows illegally. Viacom alleges that about 160,000…

Every way up

Euan Semple on the advantages of social media for everyone: What I find interesting is that some people leap to the conclusion (both for and against) that social computing in business is bottom up. It isn’t. It is potentially as…

Google Cricket

The Google Operating System blog points out Google’s coverage of the upcoming cricket world cup. Google’s stuff includes a cricket blogging competition (Blogger only, of course – boo!); some Google Desktop gadgets; an Orkut community and a special blog written…