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Yahoo! have launched Fire Eagle, a ‘geo-location platform’. Covering the launch, TechCrunch says: Fire Eagle allows users to syndicate their positional data to any partner service after updating from a supported device or website. This means that after sending a…
As part of my social media onslaught to promote DavePress as my new business from September, I have created a page on Facebook. Please sign up as a fan and keep me company – and make me look popular!
Tim Davies is a busy boy right now. As well as organising the upcoming UKYouthOnline unconference, he is also flinging his ideas into Building Democracy, the new competition to fund exciting ideas to revitalise people’ interest in participating in UK…
Since delicious upgraded itself, the automatic posting of stuff I have bookmarked has stragely stopped on DavePress. Not at all sure why. Anyway, to improve things, I have installed the Postalicious plugin for WordPress, which will handle all this for…
I am planning a series of posts on this blog that will go right back to basics on a number of social web topics, partially just to be helpful but also to help develop the documentation for some workshops I…
Knol is a reasonably new service from Google, which has been described as their attempt to kill, or at elast steal some traffic from, Wikipedia. It’s basically a way for people to publish information about what they know in the…
Scripting Enabled looks like a really worthwhile couple of days out, if you can make it: Scripting Enabled is a two day conference and workshop aimed at making the web a more accessible place. We are planning to achieve this…
Since announcing that I am venturing into the world of self-employment, quite a few people have asked me the perfectly reasonable question of what it is that I am actually going to do. After much umming and ahing, I think…
Tim Davies has confirmed when and where the UKYouthOnline unconference will be taking place: 27th September at the HQ of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, on Victoria Street in London. The event promises to be a fabuolous opportunity…
A big welcome to the blogosphere to Neil Williams, all round good government web egg, who has started a blog called Mission Creep. He says in his opening post: It genuinely feels like exciting, important things are starting to happen…
Simon Berry’s ColaLife campaign is a truly wonderful thing, a real example of using the groundswell to develop an idea into a campaign and then, hopefully, into action. I was always at a bit of a loss, wanting to help…
Chris Brogan‘s blog is full of great stuff on social media. He has just published a list of 12 ways you can sell social media to your boss. Here’s the first six as a taster: Social media tools like blogging,…
There have been a number of posts popping up around the use of the social web within government, both as a reaction to discussions of the civil service guidelines for online participation and to the need to provide the tools…
A week without any posts here? I must have been on holiday. We spent a week on the Suffolk coast, not far from Southwold (no, I didn’t bump into Gordon), and had a wonderful time. I know the area well,…
Just a quick post for those who are interested in the digital mentor role which was mooted in the Communities in Control white paper. There has been a terrific response in the comments on my post on the subject, from…
Not the most enticing of titles, possibly, but Stratford-on-Avon Council have launched a neat new service allowing people to easily look up when their bins should be collected (strikes permitting, of course) without the need for scanning long tables of…
Since the iPhone has allowed the installation of third party apps, the utility of the device has increased massively. It just does so much! Here are the ones I find myself using most often: Twitterific – The best twitter client…
I was presented with a little challenge last week at work. There was a requirement to change the information provided on various pieces of data, and to do this around 100 forms had been produced with the new information on,…
MobileMe is a new version of pretty established service from Apple, called .Mac. Essentially, it puts bits of information that are stored on your computer or iPhone, and stores them online for you. This works, because it means that both…
This is a test post, made from my iPhone using the new application from Automattic, downloadable from iTunes for nothing! Let’s see how well it works…