Yahoo! Mail has unlimited storage

TechCrunch announces that Yahoo! Mail now offers unlimited storage – obviously a better deal than Gmail’s 2.8–odd gb. One feature beaten – now all Yahoo! have to do is get rid of the horrible graphical adverts, allow pop access to…

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…

Screencasting

Thanks to Steve Dale for pointing me in the direction of Blueberry Software and their BB Flashback range of screencasting tools. Steve has just finished a screencast of the IDeA’s Communities of Practice platform using the full blown version of…

Wikispaces

Wikispaces is excellent. I’ve moved the LGNewMedia wiki to there, from a self hosted MediaWiki. Technorati Tags: wikispaces, wiki, lgnewmedia

Manchester to be rebuilt…

…in Second Life. The Manchester Evening News reports: MANCHESTER is set to open a virtual version of itself in the internet simulation game Second Life… The aim is to promote the Manchester `brand’ and raise awareness of the city in…

Charlie Brooker on Macs

Charlie Brooker, TV reviewing god, has a pop at the ‘I’m a Mac’ ad campaign with his usual savagery: The ads are adapted from a near-identical American campaign – the only difference is the use of Mitchell and Webb. They…

Mac and PC

I really couldn’t think of a better pair than Mitchell and Webb to do the Mac and PC thing for the Apple adverts. Still, they’re a bit annoying. The ads, I mean, not Mitchell and Webb. All this stuff about…

Zoho Notebook

Zoho Notebook looks like yet another very cool web app – they don’t seem to be putting a step wrong at the moment. It’s in private alpha at the moment – Hopefully I will soon get in for a play…

Google and Attention

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…