Google Gears

Google’s been doing plenty of work, and buying, to create an office suite which runs online. Those who see it as a potential Microsoft killer are always challenged on the fact that the online tools are great while you have a live web connection, but are not so cool when you are stuck somewhere without … Keep reading

Demofuse and Screencast-o-Matic

Two fairly similar services here, brought to my attention by the ever reliable TechCrunch. Demofuse allows you to create ‘tours’ of your websites, to demonstrate functionality, say. It looks very useful indeed, and will be something I will be using for some of the services I’ve put together. Screencast-o-Matic is a service that lets you … Keep reading

Mahalo

Jason Calacanis has launched Mahalo, a human edited search engine, based on the MediaWiki platform used by, amongst others, Wikipedia. It’s funny, I remembered immediately the blog post Jason wrote about buying the Mahalo domain and not knowing what to do with it back in November last year. Here’s how the FAQ page explains the … Keep reading

Catchup

A flare-up of my blood sugar levels meant I had the pleasure of spending a couple of nights at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital last week, leaving me with stacks of RSS feeds to get through today, when I could face them. Still, there’s been some good stuff going on, which I’ll be posting about later.

Sometimes Search IS Broken!

Now, this is the future of web search: How can you really claim to explore the web when your search engine only returns the results you are looking for? You can’t. That’s why ACrappySearchEngine.com returns results from all across the web regardless of what you search for… Now some people will say our service isn’t … Keep reading