links for 2008-08-28

"To summarize, Yahoo! Buzz is social insofar as a community of users gets to submit content, and vote/share it. Anything more than that, Yahoo! Buzz doesn't do."

"When she did her time trials in December, 2007 in China, she took along her husband's GPS unit to capture the elevation along the route. Then she used that data to find the best training route back home". Inspired use of technology.

"After finally getting the new Internet Explorer 8 beta installed (demands to upgrade Windows, verify Windows, sigh)" - oh, well that isn't going to work over Greek dial-up then is it? I'll wait til I'm back in London...

"9 times out of 10 these days, the messageboards are 'first' with any transfer news - the news relayed by such pillars of the citizen publishing community as the baggage handler, the taxi driver and the hotel porter. Anyone, in short, who is armed with a mobile phone and an ability to recognise Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink at 20 paces. And fair play to them. To decry their right to such an old fashioned back-page 'scoop' is to fly in the face of web reason; that's the nature of the beast. That's the reality."

Seemed like a really useful article but I only skimmed it etc etc...

"Many of the UK's newspaper websites have been redesigned over the past year or so and, in general, most are pretty good". The inspiration for Jemima's PDA piece, also mentions the currybetdotnet site search smackdown.

Mentions the old currybetdotnet newspaper site search smackdown in passing.

The Internet versus Daily Mail/Sun journalist handily illustrates just how easy it can be to manipulate Google - provided you've done the hard work of building a solid Internet reputation first.