BurningbirdWeb technology
Speaking of email, how absolutely idiotic to pronounce the death of email because today’s teens aren’t using their email accounts. Today’s teens are also wearing their pants around their ankles–does this mean, then, that civilization will eventually lose its waist? I’m sorry, dear people, but frankly I’d rather not see most of your underwear clad […]
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. Pierre Bonnard. Nick Carr comments on Google’s Web 3.0, pointing out the fact that Web 3.0 was supposed to be about the Semantic Web, or, as he puts it, the first step in the Machine’s Grand Plan to take over. For all the numbers we flash about there […]
Popular opinion is that once you publish any information online, it’s online forever. Yet the web was never intended to be a permanent snapshot, embedding past, present, and future in unbreakable amber, preserved for all time. We can control what happens to our data once it’s online, though it’s not always easy. The first step […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting writing and discussion on another perspective about women in technology. This is from the DevChix group, and though I really dislike the use of ‘chix’ and ‘grrl’ when referencing professional women, it’s a good site to discover women working in the newer Web 2.0 technologies. In the essay, the writer who […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Question: How do you turn a Web 1.0 application into a Web 2.0 one? Answer: Pull the plug. I’ve been involved in comments over at Robert Scoble’s on the Zooomr crash and burn, and make no mistake: the application is down and out, and there is no plan in place to get […]