Do not attribute to conspiracy what incompetence can explain
Whilst not quite making me a dotcom millionaire, it was still very gratifying and exciting to get a cheque from Google through the post – thanks to the adverts on LGSearch.
The amount was pretty small, but it pays for all the LGNewMedia hosting, making it a self sufficient enterprise. Very nice.
Am pretty impressed with Google Groups, having had the need to play with it for a couple of days.
I wanted to set up a free blogging account for a little project I’ve been wanting to start for a while and I thought I would give the all new Blogger a go.
I wish I hadn’t.
I must have just been spolit with WordPress for the last couple of years, because even the latest iteration of Blogger lags far behind. The editor is ridiculously basic (not allowing me to add title text to links, for example) and adding pictures is nigh on impossible.
So I gave up and created a new account at WordPress.com, called Free as in Beer.
From the BBC:
Entertainment giant Viacom Media says it will sue web search engine Google and its video-sharing website YouTube for $1bn (£517m).
Viacom, which owns MTV and Nickelodeon, says YouTube uses its shows illegally.
Viacom alleges that about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes have been loaded onto YouTube’s site and viewed more than 1.5 billion times.
Google says it is “confident” that YouTube has respected the legal rights of copyright holders.
As well as more than $1bn in damages, the legal action seeks an injunction to prevent what Viacom calls “massive intentional copyright infringement”.
Dave Winer’s view:
Obviously this is a negotiation, either that or Viacom is jumping off the bridge and hoping that the fall doesn’t kill them.
The Google Operating System blog points out Google’s coverage of the upcoming cricket world cup.
Google’s stuff includes a cricket blogging competition (Blogger only, of course – boo!); some Google Desktop gadgets; an Orkut community and a special blog written by Krish Srikkanth.
Great post by Sam Sethi at Vecosys on Google and attention:
For the last two years I have been tracking a terminology called attention metadata. About 12 months ago some friends and I became really excited about the possibilities of creating a new discovery engine based on sharing our attention. We created an demo application and screencast video in Feb 2006.
There were other companies also looking to develop similar businesses around capturing and sharing attention metadata. e.g TouchStone, Attensa, Gesture Bank and Root Vault but the whole idea of attention metadata stalled because it promised much yet delivered very little. Recently though it has once again become interesting with the launch of new attention services from Google e.g Google Reader Trends and Google Bookmark and Search History.
Well worth reading in full.
[tags]google, attention, sam sethi, vecosys[/tags]
Google’s Coop cusomised search engine now provides usage statistics. This is undoubtably a Good Thing.
My customised search engine is LGSearch, one which searches local government websites. Sounds dull, but when you work for in local government, it’s useful. Obviously others think so too.
As well as the basic numbers, it also lets you know what the top searches have been:
Interesting stuff, and a great feature.
[tags]google coop, lgsearch[/tags]
For some reasons Google Analytics isn’t working properly on hyprtext. The background for the graphs are there, but no data appears on them!
This worked perfectly in FF on XP. Is there some sort of issue with Ubuntu?
[tags]google analytics, firefox, ubuntu[/tags]
Why is it that NONE of the recent new functionality has hit my Gmail account yet? Even Mrs Dave’s account is up-to-date with all the cool stuff Google have been adding of late – and by her own admission, she doesn’t use it, and what’s more doesn’t LIKE IT!
So, if there are any Gmail people out there with nothing better to do over the festive period, please can they look at the poor, unloved excuse for an email account that is briggs.dave@gmail.com and maybe make it just a little bit better?
Please?
[tags]google, gmail[/tags]
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