The social and collaboration part of Web 2.0 mostly revolves around the concepts of social networking, user-generated content, and the long tail.
Social Cloud
Social networking is the idea that people can meet and talk and organise their social lives using the Web instead of, or in addition to, more traditional methods such as talking face to [...]
Like any hyped technology, Web 2.0 has a lot of buzzwords. They include the tag (as in tag cloud), the folksonomy, the long tail (more about that in a later post), and social software.
Social software is there to support networking and social activities via the internet. Lots of people spend lots of time interacting with [...]
If you have cats, or even if you don’t, this video is worth watching. From Lauren Cooney’s This was my morning…. This is often my morning as well.
At the CSW XML Summer School this year I gave a talk on Web 2.0, in the Trends and Transients track. I’ve been pondering whether to write it up as a series of postings or not; there’s so much hype and information around Web 2.0 that many people are bored silly with it now. I [...]
If you haven’t seen the photos from the Cassini spacecraft’s trip to Saturn, you should. In Saturn’s Shadow shows photos shot in Saturn’s shadow, screening the camera from the sun’s glare. That little blue dot in the upper left corner of PIA 08329? That’s the earth.
Link from Presentation Zen.
For those, like me, who are somewhat privacy-oriented, and use Firefox as their browser, I recommend using the Customize Google extension. I set it up to use https for accessing Google docs, reader, and calendar, and to anonymize the Google ID for searching. You can also anonymize the Google analytics cookie, which I’m not doing [...]
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