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The Great Firewall checker
This service checks whether your website is banned in China. Clever idea.
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More on spyware
After my thoughts yesterday about web spyware, this post about email spam caught my eye. The author owns his own email domain, so creates a new email address he signs up to; Company A gets companya@domain, Service B gets serviceb@domain, etc. These email addresses are unique and never
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The napkin fiction project
I love stuff like this. Esquire sent 250 napkins to various writers across America, and got nearly 100 of them back, from established novelists to first-time authors. Some of them are fantastic. There was a collaborative art project on the web around five years ago where people sent notebooks out,
Is MyBlogLog spyware?
There's been a flurry of activity over the last few days over MyBlogLog, and specifically, whether it secretly tracks advertising clicks. Now owned by Yahoo, the allegation is that the tool is being covertly used to optimise their contextual search product against Google's Adsense (which we
Every Explode account is an OpenID
Dave's already announced this one, but it needs to be reiterated: every Explode account is an OpenID. What is OpenID? OpenID is a simple standard that allows you to log on to multiple sites and services using one identity that follows you around the Internet. The idea is
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Explode your widget!
Explode users can now configure their Javascript widget in a number of ways. We're going to be adding more themes as time goes on - but for now there's four to choose from, and you can pick the size of the icons, the number of rows
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Microsoft vs Google vs ...?
Okay, so we all know that Google just launched Google Apps Premier, which is basically their rival to Microsoft Office. At $50 per seat per year, with no install costs and next to no compatibility issues, this is going to be cheaper for a lot of people than the incumbent.
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ZOMG Web 2.0
Every so often I come across a product or service that seems to have had a Web 2.0 epiphany. Presumably someone at the company stuck their head out, had a look around, saw the buzzwords and stuck their head back in before they'd fully researched what was
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Wii like it
This makes me really, really want a Nintendo Wii. Now, if we could network together console users, no matter whether they were using a Wii, an Xbox, a PS3, etc?
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Explode! exploded
Steve O'Hear featured Explode in his excellent Social Web blog last night, Techcrunch followed, and our user figures are rocketing. It's very gratifying to see, although humbling that after three years of working on an open source social networking framework with all the trimmings, something this
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Explode!
The eagle-eyed among you will have seen a new widget appear at the bottom of Dave and my sidebars. We've been playing with a new service (okay, okay, hack), based on the Elgg framework, that explodes the social networking paradigm and allows you to list your friends wherever
Elgg documentation
We've been spending all day populating the shiny new Elgg documentation page over on Elgg.org. This is a MediaWiki integration, which represents one of the wiki choices available to Elgg users. The other one is Nathan Garrett's wiki plugin, which we're going to