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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.
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Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Monday, 9 July, 2007
Sunday, 8 July, 2007
Cheers, Gears
Following up on previous posts about Google Gears, the web service that lets you bring your online world offline, I thought I ought to post about a couple more examples of it being used. Both have popped up on the Wikipedia entry for Gears, which is worth keeping an eye on for new developments.
The first one is SQLAdmin for Gears, which I cannot pretend to understand, though there is some explaination here.
Second is the far more straightforward Gearpad, which explains itself succinctly:
Gearpad is a simple notepad you can access from anywhere, even offline.
When you return to the network, your notes will be synchronized with the server automatically. Hooray!
Hooray indeed.
Change2
For a while I have been wanting to put all the bits of work I do on social media into a little basket, just to organise it and let people know that the same person is behind them all.
In addition to that, I have been playing about with Google Apps and wanting to find an excuse to start using it.
So, I merged these two and set up Change2 on Google Apps. My experience of Google Apps has been good so far, despite some trouble with putting a basic site together with Page Creator. What I have looks ok, and I have set up a blog on WordPress.com to cover the other bits.
Another role of Change2 is to publicise the fact that I am willing and able to help anyone out with social media type web stuff, and am happy to give my time up to charities, community organisations or any other non-profit organisations.
Facebook Application Spam
I like FaceBook, though I don’t log in nearly as often as I ought to, so as to make the most of the service.
One of the reasons that I don’t, though, are the tonnes of invitations I get to have some application or other added to my profile. I know that the thir party developers are what makes Facebook cool, and some of the apps are really useful (or just fun, like the Graffiti one).
But having to wade through the invites and the interminable options that follow them really does get me down, and turns me off the platform to a certain extent.
Comic Sans
Heh. It’s good to know that I’m not the only one that hates Comic Sans:
Thursday, 5 July, 2007
Social Networking Video
Apologies for the lack of updates lately, have been busy doing other things. Here’s the latest video from Common Craft, to make up for it. It’s a plain speaking guide to social networking. Cool!
[youtube 6a_KF7TYKVc]
Monday, 25 June, 2007
Videos!
I’ve been adding plenty of video’s to my VodPod, but of course they don’t appear in the RSS feed, so those that don’t regularly visit the site won’t know they are there.
So, here’s a list of some of the video’s I’ve recently added:
Have you got some favourite online videos you think other LGNewMedia readers might be interested in? Join the VodPod and post them!
Sunday, 24 June, 2007
Customised Search with Google
Here’s a presentation I have put together to explain some of the whats, whys and hows of creating a Google Customised Search.
Thursday, 21 June, 2007
A perfect blog post
Evan Davis, BBC News’ economics guy, has a pretty good blog called Evanomics (nice). Yesterday he posted on the hot topic of the moment, private equity. And as a blog post, for me it is pretty close to perfect.
For those that do not feel they know what private equity is all about, let me offer a few arguments on both sides.
First an explanation. Private equity is quite simple. Investors borrow money (from banks); they usually add a little of their own and use the cash to buy companies. Often the companies they buy were publicly-owned – in the sense that a large number of relatively anonymous shareholders buy and sell shares in them on the stock market – and once bought, they become privately-owned, in that their shares are no longer traded.
Davis provides explanation and opinion, facts and commentary. Despite reading articles every day in the papers about private equity, I never understood as fully as I do know after reading this post.
It’s a great template for new bloggers in terms of style and content.
Wednesday, 20 June, 2007
A knowledge management search engine
The latest stage of my attempt to take over the world of vertical search is KMSearch, which focuses on knowledge management resources.
As well as the search engine, there is a wiki to manage the site, which includes the list of sites searched. Please get involved if you have sites you would like to see added.
Big thanks to Lucas McDonnell, whose post on 46 KM resources kicked things off for me.