Archive for October 2nd, 2005
If you have not already done so, you might want to read Part 1 of this primer.
So you are convinced that you want to “join the revolution” and now you’re wondering what to do first. Here are the first 8 steps that you will probably want to take:
1. IDENTIFY YOURSELF: Here are the [...]
How many versions will it take just to get basic numbering and bulleting to work properly? It has taken me 20 minutes to try to do a numbered list with one numbered point having four bullet points. This is a complete joke. Text-edting, bullet points, and numbering can NOT be this hard to program. [...]
Okay, here goes my attempt at creating a totally incomplete, biased, and opinionated summary of why you should care about Web 2.0 as a non-techie geek who can barely use their computer to begin with:
Why do it at all?
· Web 2.0 is about connecting people: it won’t change the world, it won’t [...]
from the C|Net Integrates Ontology Viewer Into News Site:
ikewillis writes “The new beta version of news.com now features an integrated ontology viewer developed in collaboration with LivePlasma who appears to have built a large ontology for music and movies. While they don’t appear to provide direct access to the ontological data using [...]
Here is a very funny letter that Rick Segal posted to his blog about the 26 minute power outage that was “our tsunami” in trendy L.A.
Boris is at it again. (Kate, do you ever see him anymore??) He is proposing that we build a meat-space collaboration facility for budding entrepreneurs to gather in to swap vcards and ideas while admiring the skateboarder decals applied in to their respective laptops.
The official vision is:
a physical, [...]
This stuff is cool. And it’s changing daily. But let’s face it, unless you’re one of the geek acolytes in this new space, most people don’t have the time in their schedules to sit and read in the bathroom, let alone figure out the cool new web-app of the week and also figure out [...]
It is only when you take into account the sum total of a person’s associations, actions, talk, relationships, you get a more complete picture of them in the real world than if you just listen to their words. The corollary in the web 2.0 world (or web 1.0 world for that matter) is that the [...]
How did this go by without major announcements? Palm fights Microsoft for 12 years (?) and then forms an alliance and decides to ship a Windows based Treo? Is RIM really that much of a threat? Are Palm’s numbers that bad? This is like saying that Microsoft is going to start shipping Mac OS [...]
Microsoft was right to crush Netscape and Java. I realized the other day that I spend a huge portion of my time in a browser. I use Firefox on the PC at work and Safari on the Mac at home. From home, I will have Outlook Web Access on one tab, Gmail in another tab, [...]
