Dave

Dave

Back again

Have been back online for a few weeks now, though much of my attention on local government and new media matter has been focussed on the IDeA Communities of Practice platform, run by Steve Dale. I’d recommend that anyone interested…

links for 2007-01-06

Zoho now imports ODP (tags: zoho odp openoffice.org) Performancing and PayPerPost Deal is Off (tags: performancing problogger payperpost) Building Online Communities » Interweb World (tags: blogs community forums online)

Zoho now imports ODP

Just a quicky this one. Zoho Show will now let you upload ODP files. What are they? Well, it’s the open format that OpenOffice.org uses. As the Zoho blog says, With the current update, Zoho Show now has full OOo…

links for 2007-01-05

Terapad.com – Beyond Blogging (tags: blogging Blog platform) ODP support in Zoho Show (tags: zoho odp openoffice.org) PayPerPosts backs out (tags: performancing payperpost)

PayPerPost backs out

Mike Arrington posts that the Performancing Metrics deal is off: It’s not often that a company announces the acquisition of another company and then subsequently walks away from the deal, but PayPerPost isn’t a typical kind of company. In a…

links for 2007-01-04

OpenGarden | It’s All In Your Head (tags: wiki opensource web2.0 cms) Google Tips no more (tags: google tips blake ross)

Google Tips no more

Google have removed their controversial ‘tips’ feature, according to FireFox dude Blake Ross: Google has removed the tips feature. Perhaps it was always intended as a test; I don’t know the official reason for its removal. In any case, thanks…

Search Wikia Update

One of the earliest posts on hyprtext was about the proposed new community search engine proposed by Jimmy Wales. There was quite a lot of kerfuffle about it, largely due to confusion over Amazon’s involvement, and quite a lot of…

links for 2007-01-03

Word Count Journal (tags: word count journal wordpress) hyprtext » Blog Archive » Microformats (tags: microformats) hyprtext » Blog Archive » Did Wikipedia Really Ban Quatar? (tags: wikipedia quatar) DropSend acquisition talks fall through with YouSendIt (tags: dropsend yousendit) Anatomy…

Personalised Google by Default?

For some reason, whenever I have visited Google today, it has bounced me straight to – in other words, the Personalised Google page. This happens whether or not I am logged into my Google account. Is Google starting to…