What are you doing? I wonder. Supplying the answer is the idea behind Twitter, a service launched several months ago but which now seems to have reached critical mass. It’s a weird service in many respects, you simply fill in a form describing what you’re up to. You can use the website, an IM client or [...]
January 6, 2007
Many bloggers could benefit from using a splendid new tool called citebite (found via. Lifehacker). It’s probably easiest for you to just go and have a look, but for the sake of completeness, here’s what it does. You copy and paste a chunk of text from a web page you want to quote. Then you tell [...]
January 5, 2007
Web 2.0 Mecca Techcrunch has just launched one of those funny old user forum things. Muhammad Saleem reckons digg and Netscape could benefit considerably from their introduction and points out that reddit achieves a quasi forum functionality by allowing posts about itself. Forums or message boards may seem very nineties. In some respects, they hark back [...]
January 5, 2007
There are, of course, considerable advantages to working for a non-profit. None of these types, for a start… Thanks to Deirdre for the tip off. Apologies to my wife who *cough* flogs space.
January 3, 2007
Good news from my friend Stephan Tual, the main man at Terapad. Terapad is a powerful blog and website hosting service which was launched last September to good reviews but with a bit of a sticking point. It cost money. With free services available from blogger, wordpress and vox, among others, I have to confess [...]
January 2, 2007
Being the sorry sort of person I am, I’ve spent a fair portion of my last day of freedom reading Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems : An Examination of Tagging Practices (Kipp, Margaret E. I. and Campbell, D. Grant (2006). link). Basically, they looked at the del.icio.us tags used to describe a number of [...]
December 31, 2006
I wrote yesterday that the emerging news about Search Wikia seemed a tad confusing. There’s good reason for that. In an interview between Danny Sullivan and Jimmy Wales, the Wikimedia foundation boss says that he didn’t entirely intend the project to be made public yet, since it hasn’t really been started. Wales told a reporter [...]
December 30, 2006
Not that much it seems. With both Saddam and James Brown dead in the last week, I was expecting major ructions. Digg has raised another $8.5mn in Series B funding from previous investors Greylock Partners and the Omidyar Network who invested $2.8mn back in November 2005. It’s not yet profitable, apparently. Google blog search is now getting [...]
December 20, 2006
It’s Christmas and time to think of other people. Via Jack Schofield on the Guardian and then Adrien O’Leary are the three most important YouTube videos I have ever seen. (Adrien, I have ripped off your post – but this is too important not to share directly). There is, eventually, a Web 2.0 angle. [...]
December 20, 2006
The Mercury News reports, in fairly stuffy tones, on research that establishes once again that the paper itself won’t be quite the same thing before too long: By a 2-1 ratio, Americans say they would rather watch an old-fashioned TV evening news report’s coverage of an event than the sort of “citizen video” that has become [...]
December 20, 2006
I’ve always liked Pandora, the music recommendation service that provides a radio station based on the seed of a track or an act that you like. I’ve always liked last.fm too, which offers a similar service. Historically, last.fm has been the clear winner when it comes to Web 2.0ness (what do you mean that isn’t a [...]
December 19, 2006
Sam Sethi and Mike Butcher, ex-editors of the currently-defunct Techcrunch UK (background) have announced that they are launching a new thing. From Sam’s blog – which is currently in a state of design turmoil looking fine now, presumably under the strain of rebranding activity: After a hectic few days, Sam Sethi and Mike Butcher are back up [...]
January 9, 2007