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of tasty things (I leave some for later)

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

I have been so busy playing with it and going ‘Ooh’ and "ah" that I forgot to mention that Yahoo’s bookmarking site (once a proud indie Web 2.0 flagship) del.icio.us, has had a makeover (including a new URL, now just plain http://delicious. Huh.)
I am quite happy with the addons for Firefox and IE which are [...]

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some real shower power would be good

Monday, September 25, 2006

I’ve been poking around the Adobe Labs site, and had a play with Jam Jar, their beta social software product which has been built using their new AJAX based programming language, Flex 2.
Jam Jar is a curious blend of old and new tools and shows pretty markedly the innate problems that we are going to [...]

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web publishing days

Sunday, August 13, 2006

Thomas VanderWal, the guy who coined the term ‘folksonomy’, is visiting Australia in September for the Web Directions conference. I can’t go to Sydney, as I’m putting on my literary hat and going to the Melbourne Writers’ Festival, so I will have to read about him instead. Here’s what he has to say about saying [...]

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it’s probably been there 4evah

Thursday, July 27, 2006

I don’t know how long this has been happening for, but over at the Guardian’s mega-blog, Comment Is Free, posts are digg-able, del.icio.us taggable and Technorati-searchable. Roll on Australian broadsheets, with your online community….It looks as though the user-moderated comment function on the Guardian blog site is still in place, so that must be proving [...]

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trust in a 2.0 future

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

‘There is undoubtedly a significant degree of hype around Web 2.0 at the moment, but behind the hyperbole lie some important principles, and some powerful potential.’
So spoke Paul Miller, a chief writer with Ariadne, the UK based online library journal, when reporting to librarians on things webbish and 2.0 last year. Writing in September [...]

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