I seem to be lost in the world of beta web-services at the moment. There is so much happening in the Web2.0 world that at times it is a little overwhelming. Check out this customisable web site made in AJAX. You can customise all the panels with RSS feeds (and other web2.0 services) and when…
(from the Kelvin Grove Urban Village project ). Digital Stories are short, personally narrated multimedia tales. In a workshop run by specialist trainers from the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT, people from a wide range of age groups and experience levels worked together to produce digital stories related to the history of the Kelvin Grove…
What Web 2.0 is (from webmonkey ). There is a powerful idea floating around that the internet is moving into a more advanced stage of maturity, a new paradigm called Web 2.0. There's also a lot of hype flying around the idea, as well as a backlash from internet folks who see Web 2.0 as…
(from The Age newspaper ). BBC director-general Mark Thompson wants to take advantage of the latest technology to turn one of the world's foremost broadcasters into a truly global media brand. He insists that the Internet is the future for the 84-year-old British Broadcasting Corporation but warns that it has to be globally relevant to…
I discovered a very interesting opensourse 'social software' service called elgg.net today that on the surface, appears to be much better than that ugly old beast 'myspace' (elgg.net has a focus upon learning). This article by one the the writers on the elgg.net system, Ben Ward, tells it all. Whose Space? In April 2005,…
Youtube is creating it’s own ‘starsystem’ based on hits, word-of-mouth, and cross-media promotion. Check out this dance video. It’s sort of funny. More in the Age newspaper >>