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Web 2.0: Social and Collaboration

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 […]

2007 11 08 Presentations
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Web 2.0: Buzzwords

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 […]

2007 11 07 Presentations
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Web 2.0: Introduction

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 […]

2007 11 06 Presentations
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XML 2007 Last-Call Deadline

The XML 2007 talk sub­mis­sion dead­line is loom­ing; there’s only one this year (and it’s this Fri­day, August 31st!), so if you miss it, you miss out. I’m one of the review­ers. If you want a high grade if I’m assigned your paper to review, read these hints on writ­ing good abstracts first. Since the […]

2007 08 30 Comments (0)

Home from Oxford

As usual, the trip to the XML Sum­mer School in Oxford was excel­lent. I learned a lot and met some inter­est­ing people and had fun too, even though I’ve decided that two trips to Europe, with a one-year-old, in 26 days, is a little too much travel in a short period of time. The XML […]

2007 07 31 Comments (2)

Summer in Oxford

Most years I get to speak at the XML Sum­mer School put on by CSW in late July in Oxford, Eng­land. Last year I didn’t go since I’d just had a baby 6 weeks before and the fam­ily suc­ceeded in talk­ing me out of it. This year I’m going again. It should be a lot […]

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