Category: digital
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Xaja tenretni
When I was a kid Ajax was the cleaner that didn’t scratch your surfaces (remember Xaja Diquil?). Now it’s Asynchronous Javascript and XML, a technobabble way of explaining the ability to dynamically refresh content on the page without the need to refresh or reload the entire page. From a users perspective, it can be pretty…
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Boo 2.0
My stalker from boo.com has paid me another visit. ‘insider@boo.com’ has just left another comment for me on the last boo post: "It won’t be fashion but will still be fashionable.It will still have an offer for each season.You’ll still be able to shop for the cool and trendy. It sure is tailor made…" Sounding…
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Best of British
Not all great web 2.0 start-ups eminate from California. Techscape have just posted a list of ‘interesting’ and ‘sparky’ start-ups whose common thread is that they are based in and originated out of old blighty. These are my edited highlights (for the full list go here) 1. Sleevenotez This clever site puts real-time content (wikipedia…
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Bulls**tr
Check this out . Useful for the next time you need to AJAX-enable your life-hack.
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Spooky
Just had a comment left on my recent post about the re-emergence of Boo.com (the URL that spawned one of the fastest crash and burns in web history) from ‘insider@boo.com’. It reads… ‘Ever heard of the “wisdom of the crowd”?Do you trust the multitude?Prefer friends and family?Like to be totally in control and do it…
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The BBC, Web 3.0, sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G
Hot on the heels of their You Tube deal, the Beeb have announced a ‘Web 3.0’ deal with IBM. I’m already getting a little irked by the ‘Web 3.0’ thing, but you know that when the mighty BBC get behind an idea it has a good chance of happening. They are co-developing a technology, starting…
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Scary thought
Larry Page , co-founder of Google, has apparently announced that the web behemoth is in the development stages of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The realization, it is claimed, may not be as far off as we think. Yesterday I left a comment on John Grant’s blog about companies that embody innovation. I used Google as an…
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Mash-ups for the masses
Mashing up feeds just got a whole lot easier with the recent launch of Yahoo Pipes. In it’s simplest terms it allows you to easily combine multiple feeds into one, stringing together many simple operations, piping the output of one to the input of the next, to create something new and more complex. It has…
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Digg Spy
Following on from my earlier post about mapping the internet, Digg labs have been at it again with Big Spy…this time stories appear realtime, the size of the font indicating how popular they are, and then move down as new stories appear. Not sure why you need a study to find out ‘why it’s gross…
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Mapping the internet (2)
Digg have developed a dynamic mapping tool which tracks conversations as they happen across the internet, live. It’s fascinating and slightly addictive to watch. This one represents how many diggs are being recorded as a stack, showing diggers falling from above and stacking up on active stories. This one represents the diggs as they happen…