An American friend told me last week that some of the hottest talk among venture capitalists was about Revver.com, a website enabling you to upload your videos in an easy way and get paid for them. How much you get depends on how many people click on adverts tagged to your submissions.

There are more photographs around than ever before and, thanks to the growth of digital photography and cameraphones, there may well be more photos taken this year than in the whole of history. But how many will still be there 50 years hence? This may seem a silly question to ask when we are being bombarded with wonderful, easy-to-use, websites offering to store online our digitised photos at the click of a button for nothing.

There has been a lot of speculation about whether Google is preparing a challenge to Microsoft’s 95% dominance of the market for word processors and other office services. It already has, but it calls it by another name — e-mail. For years, like many others, I have been looking for a word processor that does a simple job well.