Archive: Web2.0 category
Jeff Croft writes about personal content management:
[A CMS] ought to make your content more useful simply by virtue of the content being in the system. But more often than not, it doesn’t. Most of time, you actually make your data (read: content) as dumb as possible by ...
I'm finally starting to understand Rails! :)
Now that school's out I don't have any homework breathing down my neck, so this morning I got up early and decided to write a Rails app that takes a GEDCOM file (using an existing GEDCOM-to-XML parser) and imports it into a Beyond ...
I've been bemoaning the lack of a nice web app (or any web app, for that matter) which I could use to access my S3 storage. Then today I found filicio.us. It's new and simple, and it actually works. You can check out the demo ...
I felt like writing a list this morning. And I did. It's on Top of the Mountains at
Ben's Bylaws of Blogging. Feel free to leave additions in the comments.
This morning I got a link in my e-mail activating my test Google Spreadsheets account, so I've been playing around with it. It's pretty cool, and I even think it'll work out fairly well for managing my (meager) finances.
The collaboration, with inline chatting, seems cool. I had it ...
Came across a very interesting idea on LibrarianInBlack.net, namely textcasting. Apparently Slate.com has started doing it, and in all honesty I really like it. With podcasting and screencasting, textcasting fits right in with the rest of the family. And it's a much cooler name than ...
Check out 7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail, a great article by Josh Porter on Bokardo.com. Here are the main points:
Focus on social instead of personal.
They solve too many problems, or try to.
They’re about making someone other than the user happy.
They sell it the wrong way.
Not in it ...
I was working on a document in Writely a few moments ago, and I wanted to take a block of text (plus an image) and print it. So I copied it and opened Word. Just as I hit Paste, I thought to myself, "What are you thinking? ...
