Tag Archive: web
Many Eyes. Neat. — # 01/24/2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007
John Battelle has a long post on what he’d like to be able to do with his blog. In short he’d like to use the data about his blog’s use to build useful navigation tools for his readers. It’s all there, he knows, but how to get it out? I’ve been mulling some similar issues, [...]
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Brad, what this meme needs is a tag! All the great memes have their own tags.
Meme Watch: “East African Plains Ape”
I am no longer the only person on the Internets talking about the East African Plains Ape:
Achenblog: Daily Humor and Observations from Joel Achenbach : ...I am happy knowing that some of my [...]
Since the Long Tail concept was so popular in 2006, why not give it a kick on the way to 2007? "Of course a couple of those top 10 sites are actually places like YouTube and MySpace where large amounts of user generated content drives traffic and then deposits money in hands not of the creators, but instead in the coffers of the large corporate landlords. Nicholas Carr aptly compares this setup to sharecropping." — # 01/2/2007
Via the Eye of Scoble, Five Reasons Websites Fail: "Webmasters often times over complicate their website by providing too many links and too much text for their viewers to look at. The best websites on the net are those that take something that may be complicated, but present it in such a way that appears simple to its viewers." — # 12/17/2006
Clay Shirky has just about enough of all the Second Life crap. I couldn't agree more. I've played two MMORPGs (which Second Life appears desperate not to call itself), the Sims Online and Ultima Online and I can't figure out how Second Life is much different from Sims Online. "Like video phones, which have been just one technological revolution away from mass adoption since 1964, virtual reality is so appealingly simple that its persistent failure to be a good idea, as measured by user adoption, has done little to dampen enthusiasm for the coming day of Keanu Reeves interfaces and Snow Crash interactions." — # 12/12/2006
Monday, December 11, 2006
I’ve long wanted to take the plunge back into programming languages. My hiatus (with the exception of HTML—is that even a programming language?) has lasted 14 years now. The last time I really got up to my knees in it was with Turbo Pascal in my AP Comp Sci class. (Got a 4 on the [...]
The Apple Blog: How To Setup Development Domains On OS X — # 11/21/2006
Interesting write-up on video search with some q&a from Dabble's Mary Hodder. "Every time someone does something to a video (bookmarks it, tags it, searches for it, e-mails a link to it, marks it as a favorite, blogs about it outside Dabble, embeds it into another Website), Dabble considers that a "gesture." It tracks about 25 gestures[.]" — # 11/20/2006
GigaOm's Robert Young on Yahoo: "They made a very big and expensive mistake by bringing in a traditional broadcast TV executive to run this group… one that AOL seems destined to repeat with their recent executive shuffle. The rules of broadcast media are antithetical to the factors that drive social media, and the thing that I will agree with Brad on is that such insights and visions must be something that is intuitive and native for the leadership at the top." — # 11/20/2006
Fred Wilson on Yahoo: The same point was made by Randy Befumo of Legg Mason, in today's New York Times in the piece about Yahoo! being a "value stock": "If you have a traffic problem, then you have a fundamental business problem because you have nothing to convert into revenue dollars," he said. "But if you have a monetization problem, which is what Yahoo effectively has, you always have options." — # 11/20/2006
Read/Write Web: The Road to the Semantic Web, "[t]here are billions of fairly unstructured HTML pages which contain no annotations and metadata. The fundamental engineering question is how can we go from today's unstructured web to one rich with semantical information?" — # 11/14/2006
evhead, "All I'm saying is that you often hear about companies that should have sold when they had the opportunity2C but you rarely hear about companies that shouldn't have." — # 11/9/2006
Profile of Matt Mullenweg in the Guardian. "Now you see people with no technical ability creating really amazing sites reaching audiences they would never have imagined reaching." Also profiled: Ev, Joshua Schachter, Dick Costolo, Caterina Fake & Stewart Butterfield. — # 11/6/2006
"I often find myself saying, 'I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature.'" — # 11/6/2006
Farecast is one of those things that changes how you look at a topic. In this case: airtravel. — # 11/6/2006
Open Letter to Cory Doctorow, "But, where we draw the line, and this is important to us, and I think it should be important to you, as a writer, are tools that: Modify the meaning of our writing." /n
I've been thinking a lot - meg.hourihan.com — # 10/15/2006
Tuesday, February 1, 2005
MSFT search has been launched. Becuase of the way I use search engines (mostly for research), it will be some time before I have my own evaluation of MSFT search. Two bloggers did some searches of their own to evaluate the new service. Their experiences are starkly different and highlight, I think, [...]