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Wow, major news breaking on the horizon. Microsoft have offered to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. Our lives, our businesses, and even our society have been progressively transformed by the Web, and Yahoo! has played a pioneering role by building…
On the advice of David Wilcox, I am giving Flock a go on my MacBook. Not because I am unhappy with FireFox, but more to see if it resolves some of the issues I have with NetNewsWire and the various…
I am trying to find all the software I need to make my Macbook as useful to me as my Vista laptop is. Obviously some things are made much easier, like making Skype calls (no longer any requirement for a…
Have taken the day off work for a trip to London tomorrow to visit Lloyd Davis‘ Tuttle Club, or London Social Media Cafe. It’s going through an itinerant stage at the moment, finding a home wherever there are willing hosts…
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…
…seems to be completely knackered today.
Yes, for the first time in my life, I have bought a Mac – to be precise, a MacBook with 2.2Ghz, 120gb hard disk and a paltry 1gb RAM. That will be the first thing to be resolved, I reckon,…
Completely unrelated to the Google UK-hosted barcampukgovweb, I’m sure, but Google have launched a dedicated UK politics site, with lots of UK politics related widgets for your iGoogle page, and a YouTube channel. One of the widgets available is based…
One of the key challenges to establishing a community is attracting engagement – not just getting the numbers in of people signing up, but getting them to actively take part. One step to achieve this is through gradual culture change,…
This blog has a clear theme this morning. Here’s another tool that makes Twitter even more useful: Twitter100. It displays the latest updates from up to 100 of the people you follow on one page. It certainly makes following what’s…
Mike Butcher reports on TechCrunch UK about Tweetmeme, a new UK based service which provides updates as to what the hot discussions are on Twitter. A Techmeme for microbloggers, if you will. Having had a look at it this morning,…
Matt Mullenweg has announced over on the WordPress.com blog that Automattic, the company behind WP.com, Akismet and the driving force behind WordPress development, have created a new theme for WordPress. Whoopie-do, you might be thinking. But this theme is more…
I didn’t get on very well with YouTube, but have managed to get the Pageflakes screencast on my blip.tv channel. *** VIDEO DELETED BECAUSE IT WAS BORKED! ***
Quite a few people were interested in how the pageflake for the barcampukgovweb was set up, so I have prepared a screencast demonstrating the process. You can view the flash movie here. This file is quite big (c19mb) and I…
Anther video coming out of barcampukgovweb. This time it’s my good friend Steve Dale talkng to Tim Davies. [youtube:]
An interesting point made by Tom Steinberg of MySociety at barcampukgovweb was when he was asked about the best platform to use to operate an online working group. An example of a working group like this could be those who…
Lloyd Davis has started to put up the video he took on his blip.tv channel. I’ll repost them here as I come across them. Here Lloyd talks to Rob McKinnon.
I think this is the first video from the barcampukgovweb to get online – David Wilcox chatting to organiser Jeremy Gould. [youtube:]
This is a presentation I created a while ago explaining just how easy it is to create a personalised search engine with Google CSE. I have had a few people ask me how this is done recently, so I thought…
I spoke last week at Creative Connectivity, a conference being organised by the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Support Centre, which is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee – on the subject of the risks and opportunities presented by Web…