Archive for November, 2005
Another Amazing Amazon Addition
Amazon launches yet another extremely interesting concept: Mechanical Turk, as they subtitle it: Artificial Artifical Intelligence. Here’s how Amazon describes the concept:
In 1769, Hungarian nobleman Wolfgang von Kempelen astonished Europe by building a mechanical chess-playing automaton that defeated nearly every opponent it faced. A life-sized wooden mannequin, adorned with a fur-trimmed robe and a turban, [...]
Blogger help from the EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published two interesting documents:
EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
Whether you’re a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you’ve been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting in trouble for what they post.
How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else)
Here we offer a few simple [...]
Blingo does it again!
I’ve talked about Blingo before - but for those of you who don’t remember:
Blingo is a search engine with a twist. Each search on Blingo is also a chance to win a prize.
And it’s not some new fangled [...]
Madonna loves tagging
Well, Madonna may not know what the hell "tagging" is, but her Web team sure does.
On the new AJAX enabled madonna.com, they’ve launched a tagging project…
We want anything you’ve collected over the years: pictures of Madonna, pictures of YOU with Madonna, her merchandise and memorabia; scans of autographs she’s given; concert pics and movies [...]
Distance between want and fulfillment
I had a recent discussion with a report who was asking what Web 2.0 was all about, and why AJAX is always used in the same breath as Web 2.0. After all, isn’t AJAX a technology and Web 2.0 a concept, or strategy?
Yes, but there’s also something else to this discussion. I came across a [...]
Web 2.0 recap
Every time I read something about the recent Web 2.0 conference, I get a little more jealous of those who attended. One such target of my jealousy is Eric Norlin, and he has a terrific recap of the conference.
My original cliff-notes definition of "web 2.0" was that it saw that web as platform, and [...]
IE7. Or is it?
This is just in - IE 7 is really Firefox with an IE skin!
I’ve yet to see ANY feature that’s not already handled natively in Firefox or by a solid extension for FF. Maybe Microsoft will suprise us all, but with the feature list and screenshots I’ve seen, it really does look like a version [...]
What is Web 2.0?
You’ve likely heard the term Web 2.0 by now. If you’re not quite sure what it is, check out the "What is Web 2.0" by the guy who coined the term.
Like so many things - the best explainations are visual:
In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example:
Web 1.0
Web 2.0
DoubleClick
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Google AdSense [...]
