Google Books API
Google released an API for their Book Search at the end of last week. You can implement this in two ways: static (just linking to a URL with a ISBN inserted) or dynamic, which basically means using...
View ArticleUK repositories : growth of records
For a while now I’ve been running a weekly script which connects to ROAR and grabs the number of records for each UK based Institutional Repository. I’ve finally got around to writing a web front end...
View ArticleDreamhost and nostuff
Well nostuff has been with Dreamhost for a while now, and they are responsible for running the dream. the dream was the ideal of nostuff, which was, ummm, no stuff. They gave me so many goodies that I...
View Articleto do list software
this is a ‘thinking out loud’ blog post. For years my to-do list survived as a combination of my email inbox and a bit of A4 paper which i would scribble lists on to and write numbers next to them in...
View Articleblip.fm
Very first thoughts of blip.fm, and therefore not a proper review, and based on first impressions, not research. blip.fm is interesting but so far for me has proved a little frustrating in...
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Radio Pop
Radio Pop is an interesting experimental site from the fantastic BBC radio labs. It is a sort of soical network site for radio listening. It only records your listening through the ‘radio pop’ live...
View Articleircount : new location, new functionality
A while a go, I released a simple website which reported on the number of items in UK repositories over time. It collected its data from ROAR but by collecting it on a weekly basis could provide a...
View ArticleZoho and WordPress themes
Zoho.com is very impressive. The Web based Apps are of very high quality, there are many of them, and all this is such a small space of time. It makes Google Docs look rather poor. They are free (for...
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webpad : a web based text editor
So I have WordPress (and in fact Drupal, Joomla, mediawiki, Moodle, damn those Dreamhost 1-click installs) as a way of running my website. But there are still many pages which are outside of a content...
View ArticlePinboard.in suites me just just fine
About a month a go I wrote a quick rant about Delicious.com and why it could have been a sucessful web2.0 business (relatively low costs and lots of opportunity for advertising and pro/paid for...
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