Are you tired of your feed reader? Do you wish you could find more interesting posts, or perhaps new blogs related to your current tastes and preferences? Apparently Dave Winer feels the same way: I want rating services to provide clues about what I should be subscribing to. I want them to find not what’s [...]
Do you know Netvibes? What about Eskobo, Pageflakes, Protopage, Schmedley and Webwag, to name just a few? Netvibes calls itself the pioneer of the personalized startpage. Quoting their about page: “Netvibes pioneered the personalized startpage, an alternative to traditional Web portals“. Well, dit it? Let’s travel back to 1999 when there was no such thing [...]
The guys at Brightkite came up with the idea of capturing user-generated content and associating it to a particular place where the user is located. Quoting their blog post: Placestreaming, as in the stream of content originating from a specific place. We think this really captures what Brightkite is all about. We enable location based [...]
The guys at backnetwork did a great job by providing a full social network for the London Hackday 2007 event. You are encouraged to participate by creating your own profile and linking to friends and acquaintances that you might have. They also opened their application to outside users by providing a very simple API where [...]
How can the Web Browser stop being simply a layout renderer and start using data in an intelligent way? Alex Faaborg of Mozilla sheds some light on this subject: Much in the same way that operating systems currently associate particular file types with specific applications, future Web browsers are likely going to associate semantically marked [...]
People all over are talking about the end of Web 2.0 in favor of a new, distributed network of information. Some people even suggested that we should start building a Web 3.0. What are the main characteristics of this new paradigm? Here’s a short list: easier and cheaper, on a BusinessWeek article by Stephen Baker [...]
An interesting breed of applications is showing up all around these days. Yes, I’m talking about web widgets. Usually these widgets provide an alternative interface for an existing website. Let’s see how this software category emerged. Widgets exist for a long time now. I dare to say that they exist since the first windowed UI [...]
Java original motto was (and still is) “Write once, run anywhere”. Software written in the Java language can run on virtually any computer platform, including mobile devices. The only catch: usually applications are sluggish because they tend to consume lots of memory. Web content is following the same path. RSS and other forms of syndication [...]
Originally posted at the O’Reilly ONLamp Blog: What if you could use the Web as a whole as a data storage object? What if you could write simple applications that would simply live on the Web and feed from the Web? I think the Web right now is cut down into a million pieces that [...]