GroupsNearYou.com

Richard Pope has been working on a new social website for MySociety, called GroupsNearYou.com. Here’s how he explains it on his blog: For all the talk of social networking people forget that for a whole host of internet users have…

Zoho’s CRM

I have been looking for a cheap, quick to implement and eay to use CRM (customer relationship management) system to use while a long term solution is identified. This led me to have a play with Zoho’s offering, which is…

Google: Not just Search

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to most people reading this blog that Google provides a number of services other than their traditional business area of web search. Many of the tools can be used as part of an online…

Google Socialstream

Google is working on a new social network with Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institut called: Socialstream. Video below. It seems like it will be more of an aggregator, bringing content together from across different social networks and services. Tags:…

Docstoc

Docstoc, currently in private beta looks very interesting as a competitor to Scribd, the ‘YouTube for documents’. The video below shows how Docstoc works. [youtube GLWhgu1trpA] Tags: docstoc, srcibd

The importance of the browser

Simon Dickson points out that the latest Beta of Safari, the web browser for the MacOS operating system, has now been ported to Windows. I’ve just installed the new public beta of Apple’s Safari browser on my Windows PC. It…

Google Gears

Google’s been doing plenty of work, and buying, to create an office suite which runs online. Those who see it as a potential Microsoft killer are always challenged on the fact that the online tools are great while you have…

Demofuse and Screencast-o-Matic

Two fairly similar services here, brought to my attention by the ever reliable TechCrunch. Demofuse allows you to create ‘tours’ of your websites, to demonstrate functionality, say. It looks very useful indeed, and will be something I will be using…

Sometimes Search IS Broken!

Now, this is the future of web search: How can you really claim to explore the web when your search engine only returns the results you are looking for? You can’t. That’s why ACrappySearchEngine.com returns results from all across the…

Zoho Notebook (beta)

Zoho are one of my favourite web 2.0 companies. They provide pretty much best of breed web applications: cool stuff like a word processor, a spreadsheet, presentations, online meetings, wikis, and oodles of other stuff Anyway, their latest little number…