Pownce, the latest project by Kevin (founder of Digg.com) - I just managed to get in with an account after about ten minutes trying to find a postcode which will work. Unfortunately the current sign-up form doesn’t accept UK post codes so I had to use a US one. That was quite annoying actually but anyway, on to what I was saying.

Ive been playing around on Pownce now for a good 20 minutes and heres what I think of it.

Initial page

Personally I think its a bit too cluttered. Yes it does have structure (3 column layout) but to me each section isn’t clearly defined from the other which means someone who is completely new to this sort of thing may be easily confused. Take a look:

One thing that I do like about it however is that it gets straight to the point and lets you post a message right away. This is a great way of getting people involved with Continue reading »

As the whole ‘Web 2.0′ idea continues to push itself into our worlds people are continuously looking for new ways to organise their content and make it accessible. As you probably already know tagging is one of the latest crazes to hit the web.

Thagoo.com is a brand new search engine web site which allows you to search for web sites using some of the more popular social bookmarking sites. They describe it as follows:

thagoo is a tag based search engine who search on millions of user’s categorized favorite links using the most popular social bookmark sites as sources.

To understand how does thagoo works, we need understand how does social bookmark works. Social bookmarking is a web-based service to share Internet bookmarks. The Social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links through the practice of folksonomy techniques on the Internet.

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I would like to introduce you all to the brand new Pythons Blog. I have been looking at this blog for a while now thinking that it lacks personalization and could do with some improvement. From this line of thought I decided to redesign my blog from the ground up. Not only have I brought in a complete new design but I am also introducing a couple of new features. Here is a brief tour of the design and new features.

If you haven’t noticed already, the front page of the blog has been reworked and is now made up of a new layout. Previously I simply had a list of all the recent blog entries on the left accompanied by a menu on the right. Now however I have added a new block at the top which displays the latest post in a more prominent position. Doing this allows users to see what the latest content is easier. To the right of the first post at the top of the front page you will find two new blocks: recent comments and sponsors. Continue reading »

I sent in my email to request an invite to join the new Pownce web site - it was created by Kevin Rose, one of the Digg team members.

Yesterday I received my invitation code and went to register but it wont let me. I live in the UK therefore I have to enter my postcode but it keeps saying its invalid. Ive tried two different UK postcodes with and without spaces and its still not working.