Photo by Yme BosmaYes, My invite came this last night. Between bits of work I found a little bit of time to play with it a few minutes. And I am not (yet) very impressed. Sure it works and sure it’s fast. Sure I can create a wave (which isn’t much more than a simple document) and have a conversation. But there are problems that wave doesn’t solve yet, promises that aren’t kept.
Some of you have allready noticed two distinct barcodes on my weblog. One conventional barcode and a strange looking 2d barcode (picture on the left!). What’s that all about? Let me tell you a little more.
Barcodes are ways to create computer-readable information. The well known barcodes you find on your products in the supermarket and on books simply represent a series of numbers. In the supermarket product you can tell the country of origin and the manufacturer and product code from the barcodes. This is all governed by international standards. This means that (in theory at least) all different products have different barcodes and are therefor identifiable. Read the rest of this entry »
Yes, it’s that time of the year… Let’s tell you what I think 2009 will bring.
Windows 7. That’s one. The replacement of Vista should become available. Should we expect a lot from it? I guess so. Vista hasn’t seen the great support Microsoft surely hoped it would get. Many organisations will be skipping Vista in the hope Windows 7 will be better. But will it be better? I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but the reviews I’ve read are promising. The end of Q2, or maybe the beginning of Q3 will see the release. Consumers will adopt it pretty quickly (since they can’t avoid it when buying new computers). Businesses will probably start adopting Windows 7 after the first servicepack comes out. I expect to see that before the end of 2009 which means that the real start of the race towards market domination starts at the beginning of 2010. Is this a good time to move to an alternative platform?
Ok, I know, Many have gone before me and came up with a definition of Web 4.0. I could add a ton of links, but won’t. This link will do:http://www.google.nl/search?q=”web+4.0″. Check that out, but read on first…
Let’s start the counting. Web 1.0 was the original web. It’s still alive and kicking today, don’t worry. This is the web where those with either money or a geeky mind could put content online for you to read. Read-only, unidirectional web. If you wanted interaction, you would have to use other protocols than HTTP on which the web is build. Use ICQ (still alive!) or e-mail or IRC (Yup, I’m that old…). There are the egroups (now Yahoo) and some bulletin-boards (that’s what BB stands for remember?) but that was it. It would take Web2.0 to get to a Read-Write web. Thanks to Ted Lessig for letting us know that! How about http://youtube.com where you, yes you, can create and publish your content. How about blogs, how about social websites where you create your content on your profile. How about http://flickr.com and http://picasa.com. That’s Web2.0. Read the rest of this entry »
The day has come that I write a post about http://twitter.com. I’ve been using this service for a long time and it can’t, nor should be ignored. Many have written before about this microblogging platform that allows you to virtually group-text your followers so it will be a challenge to be anywhere near original in this post. Heck, I’ll try. Read the rest of this entry »
I just commented on this article on this site. Since this article is really relevant to my blog I wouldn’t not want you to miss it. I’ll just post my comment here as well, but be sure to read the article and other comments if they come. So here’s my comment: Read the rest of this entry »
You might think that title is pretty strange. It’s a new concept as far as I can tell. But it’s true. Let me elaborate a bit…
Getting a website used to be pretty hard. Back in the nineties you would have one or two megabytes of storage on some spooky ftp-server where you could – if you were the tech-savvy type – upload some HTML files and call that a website. Ad some animated gifs and you’re pretty hot. That was then… Now the story is quite different. If you want a website, getting one is simple, low-tech and low-effort (if you want it to be). This also means that the number of websites has grown dramatically. The amount of content has risen to an extend that it’s getting very hard to find what you’re looking for, especially since search engines do not necessarily work any differently than they did in the nineties. A one-keyword search will most probably get you nowhere at all… Read the rest of this entry »
Almost all users of web2.0 services will have noticed that it is possible to link different services together, to get data from one service into another, to integrate services. Examples are numberous and I’ll name just a few:
You wouldn’t tell, but, I do have an online identity, or better, a few of them. I also apparently have too much spare time (or use my time very efficiently…). This first post is really meant as a very big stinky unmodest ego-trip. I’ll post a couple of links of pages about ME.
There is however another purpose to all this… You could get inspired and decide to join one or two of those sites and start enjoying them. I’m not going to take the trouble of describing these services for you, since they do quite a good job themselves. Most if not all have an ‘about us’ page that tells you what’s it all about. Maybe I would have to get me such a page as well (will happen, don’t worry…)
So I hope you’re ready if you’re still reading this post… Here goes…
Ok, I know, Many have gone before me and came up with a definition of Web 4.0. I could add a ton of links, but won’t. This link will do:
