An online notebook
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An online notebook
Seariki (a conflation of search and wiki) is a new China based search engine which provides a way of finding information in Wikipedia. The Wikipedia search itself can be slightly frustrating, in that if it can find an exact match…
Well, it’s a question. Wikis are funny things, and building communities around them can be quite tricky (although advice like this helps). More than any other types of website, wikis demand community interaction, indeed, they are nothing without it. There…
Mike Butcher is the editor of TechCrunch UK, and keeps his eye on the new tech startups in this country and across Europe. Here he is interviewed by Robert Scoble. Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be…
What does the ideal online collaboration model look like? Much of the work I am involved with at the moment concerns helping people work better with one another using online tools, both in local government and (once we have the…
Are, according to Download Squad: Acrobat Reader iTunes Real Player Internet Explorer Outlook Some pretty easy targets there. I use only iTunes out of this list on a regular basis, which I have to because I have an iPod, as…
I’ve been playing around with Ning a little this morning, and am really impressed with it, not least because now users can create subgroups within a community. Add that to blogs, forums, photo and video uploading and plenty of RSS…
Heh. Social media can be used to fight crime. I didn’t realise, but the photo of John and Anne Darwin taken in Panama, was actually found via Google’s image search, on the website for the company they used to relocate.…
are, according to FeedDemon:
…that’s occurred to me since being at Online Information last week. People still seem to be under the impression that having a forum on a website, whether internal or external, means you have a community. You don’t. A community needs…
🙂 Via Crunchnotes.
Another super video explaining blogs – soon the Common Craft guys will have covered the whole of Web 2.0! [youtube:] I wonder just how much paid work has come their way since they started doing these free tutorials? Quite a…
Funny song – there is so going to be another crash soon. [youtube:]
Light blogging ahead as I am going to be at the Online Information conference this week. I won’t be taking my laptop with me, but will be twittering my thoughts via my Palm, so do check that out.
Wow. The post I wrote this morning on my ITunes problem has already been republished by a splogger. They work fast, these guys. And at least they linked back to here 😉
Inspired by the recent screenwriters’ strike in Hollywood – what if bloggers refused to blog? [youtube:] Via Matt Mullenweg.
I’m not having a lot of luck, technology-wise, at the moment. After all my problems with FireFox, it’s now ITunes’ turn to start playing up. I thought it had been behaving itself for a while… Anyway, last night I bought…
Here’s a little presentation I have cobbled together to try and show what’s possible with a web browser these days. It certainly isn’t intended to be comprehensive, rather to give folk an idea of where they can go to start…
Have downloaded and am using the FireFox 3 beta, partly out of interest but also because of the many problems I have been having with version 2 since I switched to Vista. I’ve found myself having to reinstall FF on…
I have had a really great idea for a little site that I think will be of use to quite a few people in the UK. Trouble is, it relies on using the Google Maps API, and I haven’t a…
Nice graphical representation of the social media landscape, posted to Flickr by DBarefoot.