Posts from year 2006

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New Years Eve in Sydney

New Years Eve in Sydney

The year is about to get wrapped up, so me and Emelie are on our way to Mrs Macquarie’s Point in the Botanic Gardens of Sydney. It is the best view in the city, where the Opera House is seen in front of the massive fireworks in the harbor area.

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Why Web 3.0 will fail

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. This time the buzzword 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.

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The world of digital map mashups

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.

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Conference hall

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.

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Favorite cover songs

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.

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Internet Explorer 7 has arrived

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.

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Web 2.0 and social overload

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.

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Blogosphere five years after 9/11

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. I remember that day vividly.

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War of the standards

War of the standards

Things have really hit the fan this past week. It all started with Björn Höhrmann leaving the W3C with an open letter, soon followed by an angry reaction by none other than Jeffrey Zeldman and then the snowball really took off.

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Photosynth at Siggraph in Boston

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.

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