Category: Web 2.0

  • Citizendium and the criminally insane!

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    Josh Catone has an interesting article comparing Wikipedia and Citizendium, with Josh coming out in favour of Wikipedia! Citizendium is an online encyclopedia, similar to Wikipedia (indeed founded by Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia) but where it differs is in its requirement for contributors to use their real names and on its use of…

  • Irish web apps reviewed

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    David Lenehan has written a great round-up of the Top Irish Web Apps over on Read/Write Web. He seems to have hit on most of the usual suspects (LouderVoice, PutPlace, Nooked, Roam4Free, Pixenate, etc.). However, the fact that David missed out on a number of up and coming web apps like dbTwang and Touristr only…

  • Salim joins Yahoo!

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    I see Salim reporting that he has started a new job with Yahoo! Congrats Salim. Salim has been hired to head up Yahoo! Brickhouse – a new semi-autonomous Yahoo! R&D house which will create new apps for Yahoo! or to be spun off. Yahoo! Pipes was a Yahoo! Brickhouse project, for example. Salim has been…

  • Any questions for Ross Mayfield?

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    Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be interviewing Ross Mayfield, co-founder and CEO of Socialtext for a podcast on PodLeaders.com. Socialtext makes enterprise social software for collaboration – i.e. Wikis, for corporate customers mostly. If you have any questions you’d like me to put to Ross, please feel free to leave them in the comments of this post.

  • Zoho Writer woes

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    It has been some time since I last tried Zoho Writer (I have been using Google’s Documents and Spreadsheets instead) so I decided to give it a go this morning. I had a small project to do (a shared document) so I thought it would be an ideal test for Zoho. I created the document,…

  • Joost invites

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    I have two Joost invites to give out. They go to the first two people to leave a comment here. Leave your name (first name and last name) and email (in the email field so it won’t be displayed) Update: Invites sent to John Stephen and Jonathan Harrington – quick off the mark there guys,…

  • Beware of Jajah's mobile web app!

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    I posted recently about Jajah’s mobile web app. It seemed like a great idea at the time. unfortunately I hadn’t tried it out before posting about it. I had an opportunity to try it out the other evening. I was trying to contact friends in New York from my mobile. I called up the Jajah…

  • Online mind mapping software

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    Via Matt Wilson I came across Bubbl.us – a site for making mind maps, if you are into that kind of thing. Reasonably easy to use but the interface is possibly a little too clever. I’d have liked a pen tool to allow me to draw links between bubbles and a little more flexibility with…