Tag: web2.0

  • Audio Books

    Over summer, whilst travelling in India, I listened on my IPod, to the whole 40 or so hours of Dostoevsky’s War and Peace (a wonderful book btw). Audio books are great for travelling, as you don’t have to carry the whole book, but apart from this, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of…

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  • The Long View of Identity

    An excellent artictle by Andy Oram on identity and social software (Web2.0) The vision driving this article is a fervent belief among a far-flung set of researchers, software vendors, and system administrators: when people bring parts of their identities online, they can use the internet more effectively. Commerce sites can recognize them, participants in forums…

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  • The Semantic Web for Museums

    Description Project Context: Mr Tom Worthington presented a week long workshop on the use of technology for museums of the Pacific islands region in July 2005. One of the recommendations made following the workshop was to investigate building an on-line repository of materials from across the Pacific. In second semester 2005, Kwok Chung, a computer…

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  • Free and Opensourse Alternative to DreamWeaver

    I designed my very first web page on the DreamWeaver and have been trapped in the DreamWeaver world ever since. I have tried other web authoring tools, but none seem to have the same designer friendly functions as DreamWeaver. I’m glad that there is finally an opensourse alternative to DreamWeaver with many of the same…

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  • Wikepedia founder launches political site

    Wikipedia founder Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection (link).

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  • Live Media

    Here is an 'interpretation' of 'WEB2.0' from the perspective of  'live media'. This caught my eye because the author takes a non-technological-determinist perspective (always a much more sophisticated position). There are alot of talanted people coming out of Britain in the Web2.0 world (link )  Live Media is different. It is about conversations and content…

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