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Thursday, October 28, 2004

Wikipedia goes mobile

Simon Waldman wrote a piece in The Guardian this week on the growing phenomenon of Wikipedia. EcoblogIT mentioned Wikipedia a year ago, but Simon's article gives a good account of how the project is faring at three years old. Another interesting development is that of iPedia, a mobile client for accessing Wikipedia.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004

More on Google

Google's unmatched searching capabilities are no longer limited to the web. With a small download you can use Google search to find documents, web pages, AOL Instant Messenger chats and Outlook Express messages on your local machine.

http://desktop.google.com/

I'm sure the GroupWise message plug-in will be released in the next version.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Feds shut down anti-globalisation websites

Intolerable and intrusive international police operation?
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Monday, October 11, 2004

Great Multimap enhancement

This hack was mentioned in the Good Experience newsletter as spotted by David Teten. It allows you to move the A-Z map from Multimap around on the aerial photo of an area.
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Friday, October 08, 2004

I'm anxious

According to research commissioned by Citrix, one in four British executives suffer from "Access Anxiety".
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Spy Act

Uncle Sam sails to the rescue of PC users blighted by spyware.
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