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 when we were beginning to get comfortable with Web 2.0, with its gradients, rounded corners and breathless promises of a better tomorrow, the hype machine has coughed up another shiny new label: Web 3.0. Apparently, this is the future.
The world of digital map mashups
There was a time when a map was a map. A large sheet of paper folded according to some ancient geometrical system designed to ensure you could never get it back into its original shape. You bought one at a gas station, spilled coffee on it and argued with whoever was sitting in the passenger seat about whether you had already missed the exit.
The ecosystem of Web 2.0
Yesterday I gave a customer presentation about Web 2.0. The technology behind it, the social implications and presumably why anyone outside a room full of obstinate developers should give a damn.
Favorite cover songs
For every great band, there seems to be an army of cover bands waiting in the dark like vampires. Most of them commit the musical equivalent of repainting the Mona Lisa with house paint, taking perfectly good songs and draining away everything that made them special.
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 abused buzzword of 2005, then Web 2.0 has confidently staggered in to claim the title for 2006. Suddenly everybody has a Web 2.0 company.
Blogosphere five years after 9/11
Five years ago, the world changed. So did the web. On September 11 2001, millions of people did what we had already learned to do whenever something terrible happened: we went online looking for answers.
Previewing Photosynth at Siggraph in Boston
Today at Siggraph conference in Boston, Microsoft Live Labs offered a sneak preview of Photosynth, one of those technologies that makes you stare at the screen for a while and wonder whether you’re looking at the future or the opening scene of a particularly nerdy dystopian film.
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.