A new search engine, Picollator, purports to search for images on the Web that match images you upload. It uses pattern recognition to look for matching visual objects in other images. In this way, it claims, is helps “find photos of people more easily than any existing text-based search system. You can simply upload…

The problem with using Google Docs as a word processor is that you have to be connected to the Internet. Not a problem anymore. According to this report in The New York Times, Google will start over the next several weeks making its Web-based software available offline. “The offline feature of Google Docs…

As a follow-up to my post Monday, Avvo Expands to Mass., Florida, here is a report from the Boston Herald: Lawyers Caught in Web of Scrutiny.…

Ever wish you’d e-mailed that pleading to the court a few minutes or even a few days earlier? Ever regret having missed the deadline for exercising that option? Ever wish you’d e-mailed a birthday wish to your partner on the actual birthday? Never again miss a deadline — or at least never again

Lawyer-rating site Avvo expands this week to Massachusetts and Florida, bringing its coverage to 60 percent of licensed U.S. attorneys and spanning 11 states and the District of Columbia. Launched in June 2007, Avvo’s goal is to serve as a consumer resource by rating and profiling every U.S. lawyer. Initially, I was somewhat skeptical…

I mentioned in this March 17 post that I’d been interviewed by Connecticut Law Tribune reporter Tom Scheffey for his article, Duby-ous News?, about the controversy surrounding a law firm’s staged news program. Now Law.com Legal Technology has picked up the story.…

Following up on my post about EverNote beta (EverNote Beta: Never Forget Anything), I have more invitations available. To request one, send me a note at ambrogi-at-gmail.com.…

The Web site of law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice has been named Best Legal Web Site in the Web Marketing Association’s annual WebAward competition. The award judges Web sites using an Internet Standards Assessment Report based on seven criteria: design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copywriting and ease of use. …

I have been testing the beta version of a new search site that delivers results visually, showing pages rather than descriptions of pages. Called Searchme, it is by no means the first search engine to include images of matching Web pages within search results, but I have…

In a post earlier this week, I noted the launch by the online magazine Slate of a legal blog, Convictions, with an array of contributors drawn from all corners of the legal world. Notably, one of those contributors is Nancy Gertner, a U.S. district judge…

The law firm Thompson Hine this week announced the launch of a new Web site devoted to archiving fuel cell patents. From the announcement:

“In an effort to assist the technical community in the advancement and development of fuel cell technology, the law firm Thompson Hine LLP announced that it has launched

EverNote has long been a popular desktop application among lawyers, who use it to store notes, Web page clips, images, ideas, to-do items and whatever. The “ever” in EverNote came from its appearance, storing all your notes and clips in a perpetual, scrolling tape-like window on your desktop. Recently, the company announced the limited,…