An online notebook
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 unauthorised clips of its programmes have been loaded onto YouTube’s site and viewed more than … Keep reading
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 by Krish Srikkanth. Tags: google, cricket+world+cup
Great post by Sam Sethi at Vecosys on Google and attention: For the last two years I have been tracking a terminology called attention metadata. About 12 months ago some friends and I became really excited about the possibilities of creating a new discovery engine based on sharing our attention. We created an demo application … Keep reading
Google’s Coop cusomised search engine now provides usage statistics. This is undoubtably a Good Thing. My customised search engine is LGSearch, one which searches local government websites. Sounds dull, but when you work for in local government, it’s useful. Obviously others think so too. As well as the basic numbers, it also lets you know … Keep reading
For some reasons Google Analytics isn’t working properly on hyprtext. The background for the graphs are there, but no data appears on them! This worked perfectly in FF on XP. Is there some sort of issue with Ubuntu? [tags]google analytics, firefox, ubuntu[/tags]