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Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Yesterday was the World Wide Web’s 15th birthday! It’s amazing when you consider how much the web is a part of our lives now. When I read the news, I immediately searched in Flickr for a CC licensed photo of a birthday cake–to honor the web in the most appropriate interconnectivitly […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. WordPress.com has released a new paid upgrade: custom CSS. Now those who host their weblogs with the service can pay for an upgrade and customize their weblogs. To start, the company provided a Sandbox theme layout that can be altered through the custom stylesheet. It’s interesting to read about this […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Here are the steps to take when rolling out a new Web 2.0 product. First, drop the last ‘e’ in your name. Second, insinuate either directly or indirectly that your competitors are afraid of you because they don’t provide a direct pipeline into their customer data for your use. Also mention how un-Web 2.0 like […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Programmers have traditionally created as their first application in any language or environment the “Hello World” application. This is an application, small as possible, that outputs the words, “Hello World”. Wikipedia has a nice entry on Hello World, including the first known instance of using this now ubiquitous right of passage […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I like Doc Searls, even when I’m not agreeing with him, and this is one of those times. Nat over at O’Reilly posted an email Doc wrote to him in response to Nat’s seeking to better understand Web 2.0. Doc responded by describing three specific types of morality–self-serving, accounting, and generosity–stating that […]