Archive for the 'web2.0' Category
In the Netherlands ‘Flair’ is a magazine read by teenage girls, containing tips for teenage girls. In Sun’s dictionary it will be:
A self-supporting web programming kernel that’s all written in JavaScript
Couldn’t find much about it, but they seem to deem it the successor of the current AJAX model…. I’m curious… since it’s still Javascript…
Will [...]
Problems with Google personalized homepage
3 Comments Published by peter April 26th, 2007 in web2.0.Today Google managed to lose all my bookmarks and most of the RSS feeds I configured on my personalized homepage. Since there is now way to backup your homepage this means they’re just lost now. I’m not the only one suffering from this problem; one of my colleagues preceded me in losing everything he’d put [...]
As always I’m a bit behind in actually using all this greate web 2.0 stuff. Most of my colleagues at the VPRO have been using Twitter for a while now, but I was still a bit skeptical.
Erwin has a nice (Dutch) post trying to explain the point of twitter; but for techs: the way it [...]
I came across this demonstration video of Adobe’s new crossplatform runtime:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/videos/apollo_demo07/index.html
Most of the stuff has been possible using Java Webstart for a couple of years now, but somehow I’ve got the feeling the people at Adobe are so fare ahead in the marketing department that Appolo won’t have any problems surpassing Java Webstart at all.
A [...]
Yahoo pipes… programming made ‘easy’?
4 Comments Published by peter February 11th, 2007 in ajax, ruby, web2.0. Occasionally when some non-programmer sees program builders like code generating UML tools or, in this case Yahoo's new pipes service, they start making jokes about how developers are going to unnecessary in the future.
Normally I would just forget about such nonsense, but since this one involved the incredibly hyped Yahoo service I decided to [...]
Yesterday the 3voor12 website, architected by yours truly, won the second price in the category 'BEST DUTCH APP' at the Dutch web 2.0 awards.
Erwin Blom (the man with the plan) went there to collect the price. Congratulations!
Hopefully the upcoming release (don't hold your breath, might take a couple of months), in which I'm involved as [...]
