Dave

Dave

Google Docs, and Zoho

What was Writely is now Google Docs. Sigh. They’ve combined it with the spreadsheet package, so they are available from the same screen – the homepage being effectively a file manager when you log in. One criticism of Google when…

The Games We Play

Spending a daft amount of time on my day off here. Nice flash versions of some classic arcade games, notably Space Invaders, Frogger and Asteriods. The same chap who did the PacMan port which is on my personalised Google page.

Aggregating RSS with WordPress

I have been working away recently on a little project to bring together all of the RSS feeds of members of Palimpsest, the discussion forum I maintain. I have used third party arrangements, like KickRSS and Suprglu in the past,…

links for 2006-10-10

Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) (tags: community online)

links for 2006-10-08

Pligg CMS Make your own Digg-style site (tags: digg cms opensource web2.0 software social web) Bloglines Has Lost its Way (tags: bloglines “google reader” rss)

The Long Mynd

We returned to the Long Mynd today, for a stroll. Also, we were road testing the new rucksack we bought with some vouchers we received for the wedding. We had an excellent time and the backpack was just what we…

links for 2006-10-03

Firefox Not Really Free? Interesting story about FireFox and copyrights (tags: firefox debian software copyright free)

Playing with Google

Have spent a little time playing with a couple of Google products which have changed since I last used them – both for the better. Firstly, Google Reader, which was rubbish before, and now is a lot better. As is…