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Bookmarks for June 3rd through June 7th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Armchair Auditor – Nice clean and simple example of what can be done with open government spending data by @adrianshort Supreme Court’s untendered website cost revealed – "You need to … Continue reading
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Tagged android, bookmarking, citizenship, cms, communications, councils, data, democracy, egov, enterprise, enterprise2.0, extension, firefox, gov2.0, goverment, government, government2.0, iphone, lesteph, localgov, localgovernment, localgovweb, mobile, opendata, opengovernment, plugin, procurement, redmonk, research, sharepoint, socialmedia, transparency, webdevelopment, website, wiki, yammer
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Add LGSearch to your browser
LGSearch is a search engine for the UK public sector that I developed quite a while ago. It’s built on Google Custom Search, and isn’t particularly clever, but is rather useful. Anyway, inspired by Simon’s recent efforts on behalf of … Continue reading
Posted in Browsers, Search
Tagged firefox, internet explorer, lgsearch, mozilla, mycroft, plugin, Search
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How do you start yours?
Browser, that is. I was rather interested to hear what people used as their ‘home page’ in their browser – ie the page that loads when you first open your browser. Firefox makes this more interesting with its tabs, which … Continue reading
Create your own Firefox search plugin
The search box on the FireFox toolbar is a pretty useful thing, giving you quick access to various search engines and other sites, like Amazon, eBay and Wikipedia. It’s based on a Mozilla project called Mycroft (that being the name … Continue reading
