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After a break of a week, the guest posts are back! This time it’s Mark Pack, who has written a handy guide for councillors on how to get to grips with the net. It is pretty rare these days to…
Those who attended, or would have liked to have done, the Google event last week might be interested in a new group we have set up: To talk about how local government can use Google tools. Though this isn’t…
Some dead interesting stuff popped up when I logged in this morning – all worth giving a read: Facebook buys FriendFeed Lots of people seem to be quite upset about this one. Friendfeed is still a pretty niche service, even…
Here’s a list of some of the coverage of Friday’s event… I’ll keep it updated with everything I come across: Ingrid Koehler: Despite all the slickness and the fabulous hospitality, the day was kind of a near miss. Google knows…
From Google’s LocalGov event today, Alex Nurenberg talked us through the steps you can take to make sure your website works – in other words that visitors find what they want quickly, especially when they come in via a search…
The GoogleLocalGov event is taking place tomorrow, and by the sound of things it is going to be packed to the rafters with attendees and great content. Here is what topics will be being discussed by Google’s team of experts:…
Do you work in local government? Are you free on 7th August? Fancy popping down to Victoria in London to visit the Google offices? Oh, and get to hear from the real experts about how to make the most of…
Nice video from Google explaining the forms function in Docs‘ spreadsheets, which I have found my self starting to use rather a lot.
Google have announced something really rather interesting called Wave. (Warning: looooooong video) Essentially, A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. A wave is shared.…
I hadn’t really had a chance to have a proper play with FriendConnect before today. It’s basically a Google service that lets you add social functionality to your website, based on the OpenSocial framework. This means that if you have…
If you are a Gmail user, you’ll be used to the many benefits that this webmail service provides, like massive storage, great search, powerful filtering and labelling of email, inbuilt instant messaging and voice calls over IP, and the ability…
Some news from the ColaLife campaign… as part of the submission to Google for the 10^100 competition, a 30 second video has been created. And it’s lovely: [HTML1] Please visit the YouTube page and mark the video as a favourite,…
Nice post from Steve Rubel, comparing the approach taken by two hugely innovative companies to engaging with their customers: Google isn’t exactly known as the most transparent company in the world, but they’re light years ahead of Apple – a…
Finally Google has finished making the JotSpot wiki service their own, and have relaunched it as Google Sites. This is great news, as a wiki solution is something that has been sorely missing from Google’s line-up of services for some…
Danah Boyd writes a post about a rather worrying occurence: a friend who had their Google account taken away from them: Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine found himself trapped in a Kafka-esque nightmare, a nightmare that should make…
Now, this is depressing news. Brace yourselves. I downloaded and installed the Google toolbar this evening, just so I could check the PageRank of my site. Yeah, I know there are third party sites out there that do the same…
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…
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…
Mike Butcher at Techcrunch UK reports on a University tutor banning her students from researching essays on the web: The education world has pursued new technology with an almost evangelical zeal and it is time to take a step back…