Adactio Elsewhere:
Very nicely done! Jeremy Keith takes advantage of the APIs proviced in Flickr, Amazon, Del.Icio.us and upcoming to combine all his bits into one unified website.
Archive for April, 2005
The READ part of Web 2.0
I’ve been thinking about what blogging really is, especially as Yale starts its own launch of a school-wide blogging tool. There are plenty of descriptions about how to set up blogs, how to share your RSS feeds, etc. But I think a lot of these make the mistake of focusing on the blogging experience itself.
Furl and Del.icio.us: Contentious
This blog has a lot of great stuff on it:
Contentious » Furl and Del.icio.us: Almost Perfect Together
FireFox tops on Boing Boing
I compained in an earlier post about being forced to use Internet Explorer for my online class. But they must have made a recent update, because when I tried again this week I have full functionality with Firefox (although still got a pop browser check warning.) But I have two other instances where I was forced to use IE. The first was a photo archive site that looked like an AOL property (why doesn’t everyone use Flickr?) and the other an online conferencing application — booh!
Two Worlds
Is blogging really the new BIG THING? Is this IT? Now I’m sold, hook, line and sinker. In recent months a majority of what I read comes through the blogosphere, or at least is inspired by events in this space. For instance the last three books I’ve read and/or listened to (love those audio books!) were all a result of recommendations or references in blogs. I rarely listen to commercial radio these days, preferring to listen to audio blogs, or podcasts. I still read the New York Times most days, the Chronicle of Higher Ed, Rolling Stone, the Atlantic, and other publications as well as listen to the evening news. So I haven’t abandoned the real world - yet.
Web 2.0 on Wikipedia
Web 2.0, the read/write web, the blogosphere, and other terms are floating around. These terms are trying to put a name to an exciting change on the internet. Technologies such as blogs, RSS, wikis and services like flickr, technorati, furl and delico now allow a much more interactive internet experience for everyone — not just tech geeks.
