It’s been a little while since I wrote on this topic, but social (and not-so-social) bookmarking is on the rise again. Remember Diigo, Blinklist and Magnolia from all of two years ago? No? And at least 122 others who wanted to become the social bookmarking standard. They all lost to delicious and improved services from mainstream [...]
March 13, 2008
A TiddlyWiki, of course. You can see my very small TiddlyWiki here [no I don't any more] or a more impressive example from Jeremy Ruston, who created the thing, at the main site. It’s a sort of wiki – but wait, come back! There’s a few interesting differences from the sort of wiki software you might [...]
July 13, 2006
Martin Stiksel of London-based music networking site last.fm tells me that the company will release a new and improved version of its software tomorrow. Currently, the site uses a set of plug-ins to report your playing habits to the company’s massive database. And a standalone player that plays you recommendations according to what it has [...]
July 4, 2006
There are, of course, already a lot of different applications you can run online, from to-do lists to spreadsheets to photo-editing. Soothsayers and other pundits are predicting that as a consequence, the Great Beast of Redmond will soon be no more, as people abandon Excel and Word for online alternatives. The next step, according to [...]
June 27, 2006
Just talked to David Cruickshank, who’s the creator of businessitonline. Nice set of web applications for running a small business (UK forms only at the moment) that is free for up to 2 users. Seems like a very nice bloke and I wish him a lot of luck. Link
December 19, 2009