Dec

23

Search in 2005 … and 2006?

Filed Under Search

John Battelle, former editor of Wired magazine, is the leading commentator on search. In November he published his good read The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. In the concluding chapter on the future of search he says:
As every engineer in the search field loves to […]

By Nick Holmes, 23 December 2005

Dec

23

Google’s steps towards world domination (2)

Filed Under Search

Here’s the list.
Web search:
Google
Google Image Search
Google News
Google University Search
Google Blog Search beta
Goods and services:
Froogle beta
Google Base beta
Maps and directions; local businesses:
Google Local / Google Maps beta (map data from Tele Atlas; business listings from Yell.com™)
Book content:
Google Book Search beta (previously Google print)
Scholarly papers:
Google Scholar beta
Your desktop:
Google Desktop beta

By Nick Holmes, 23 December 2005

Dec

23

Legal process outsourcing

Filed Under Outsourcing

A valuable post on Offshoring from Joy London’s Excited Utterances blog, pointing to the trend in legal process outsourcing (LPO), particularly to India, and providing links to the main players:
With the increasing acceptance of India as a preferred offshoring destination, a large number of non-CRM and non-transaction related services are being offshored. Among these, a […]

By Nick Holmes, 23 December 2005

Dec

19

Links and law

Filed Under Internet law

Tim Berners-Lee, father of the web, has published his first blog post as a member of the Decentralized Information Group (DIG) blog. DIG explores technical, institutional, and public policy questions necessary to advance the development of global, decentralized information environments.
He points to his Design Issues writings as the home of his previous “blog”. It is […]

By Nick Holmes, 19 December 2005

Nov

30

Lawfinder open for free browse access

Filed Under infolaw

From today there is free browse access to all Lawfinder, the Lawfinder RSS feeds and the related Lawlinker utility.
As the web matures, both user expectations of value and our ability economically to deliver that value increase. There are thousands of occasional users of Lawfinder - both lawyers and lay persons - who will benefit greatly […]

By Nick Holmes, 30 November 2005

Nov

23

Free forms - revisited (again)

Filed Under Forms and precedents

Russell Shepherd of Capform has asked me to correct an error in the previous post, repeated from the Media Guardian article, saying that:
We have no intention of introducing charges for our current free forms service on Capform. Capform will introduce new chargeable services next year - but this will not affect the provision of free […]

By Nick Holmes, 23 November 2005

Nov

17

Google Base - the next step towards world domination?

Filed Under Search

Google has taken the next step in its quest to “organise the world’s information” with the release of Google Base in beta.
“Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content that we’ll host and make searchable online. You can describe any item you post with attributes, which […]

By Nick Holmes, 17 November 2005

Nov

17

Free forms - the reprise

Filed Under Forms and precedents

Serial entrepreneur Russell Shepherd has launched Capform, which provides a free library of over 1,000 government forms in HotDocs format for download from the web. The business is essentially the same as Everyform, which he originally set up in 1999 and sold to what is now LexisNexis Butterworths in 2001 for an undisclosed 7-figure sum.
The […]

By Nick Holmes, 17 November 2005

Nov

2

Home Information Pack Draft Regulations

Filed Under Home Information Packs

The ODPM has published Draft Home Information Pack Regulations concerned with the meaning of HIP, the contents of HIPs, forms for providing HIP information, assembly and authenticity of HIPs, exceptions to the duty to have a HIP and enforcement of HIP duties.
The general content and cost of the pack remain the same as discussed in […]

By Nick Holmes, 2 November 2005

Nov

1

Exploring the link between law, technology and people

Filed Under Law blogs

Justin Patten entitles his new blog Human Law with the tagline “Law, Technology and People”, saying in his opening post:
“It is my view that a crucial feature of being a successful lawyer is a knowledge of technology just as much as an understanding of the law.”
The blog covers IP, IT and Employment law as does […]

By Nick Holmes, 1 November 2005

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