Posts from year 2006
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New Years Eve in Sydney
Sydney on New Year’s Eve is like someone spiked the Kool-Aid and handed it to an entire continent. The city gleams with a kind of sweaty anticipation, shimmering in the December heat as tourists and locals alike fight for a view of the harbor.
Why Web 3.0 will fail
Just like Web 2.0, The so-called Web 3.0 is yet another buzzword from the hype machine. It is used to describe a future web environment where simple pages are replaced by documents containing semantic information, which can be processed and further refined.
The world of digital map mashups
The world of mashups didn’t stop at the infamous projects HousingMaps or Chicago crime map. It goes on and on with stuff such as Weatherbonk and the Where to go travel map.
The ecosystem of Web 2.0
I held a customer presentation yesterday about Web 2.0, the technology involved and some of the social aspects of it. The most common question from the audience was how all this fit in with the real world. That is a perfectly valid question.
Favorite cover songs
For every band there is a cover band. A lot of people hate cover versions of their beloved songs, since cover bands often manage to mess up a perfectly good song.
Internet Explorer 7 has arrived
The release version of Internet Explorer 7 is now available for download. The final version has improved since the early CTP versions.
Web 2.0 and social overload
If Ajax was the most overused and ubiquitous web term of 2005, I would guess that Web 2.0 is the equivalent for 2006.
Blogosphere five years after 9/11
Five years ago, the world changed forever after the World Trade Center attacks, and the web changed with it. The drama that unfolded would prove to be quite a performance test for news servers on the web.
Previewing Photosynth at Siggraph in Boston
Today there was a session at Siggraph conference in Boston, where Microsoft Live Labs held a sneak preview of Photosynth. In short, it’s about assembling a lot of digital photos and then applying algorithms to extract distinctive features and link these together in a big model.
How to manage todo-lists
Many of us have some sort of ToDo-lists that seem to mysteriously grow larger for every passing day. Adding a lot of fun things to a list is easy, but later on it may become a burden.