January 2009
4 posts
Brilliant Web 2.0 Applications As I Use Them -...
Whilst I was watching Mr Desabrais cook his “Shepherds Pie” with butternut squash mash I knew something else was bothering me. It wasn’t the herbs and spices he used, or the strange broccoli / cauliflower puree bit. I just couldn’t put my finger on it. Then it struck me lightening bold style. Guys using beef (suggested alternative, turkey)
Shepards Pie is made with Lamb. Stop thinking...
Brilliant Web 2.0 Applications As I Use Them -...
www.imcooked.com
I;ve just spent ten minutes watching a massive bloke cook shepards pie and crazily use butternut squash in it. dont worry, comment left.
http://www.imcooked.com/view_video.php?viewkey=d659463f9af00b142dd6&page=2&viewtype=&category=mr
Community video site with peoples own recipes on, videos of them cooking and discussion about the results.
Of course some great...
Brilliant Web 2.0 Applications As I Use Them -...
www.daytum.com
“Daytum is a home for collecting and communicating your daily data. Begin tracking anything you can count and display the results immediately… or just look around and see what other members are recording.” This is what they say.
Is still in beta right now, but you can request an invitation to test. Mine took a couple of days to arrive but a friends took over two...
December 2008
9 posts
Explaining Web 2.0 To My Dad Pt 3 - Restart
Having just finished reading another book (a real one you hold in your hands and can read in the bath without fear of electrocution) about Web 2.0 definitions I can safely say that nobody really knows.
The book was Web 2.0 Heros by Bradley L Jones and contains interviews with people from ebay, internet.com, blogline, Ning, Technorati, Zoho, Read/Write web, ThinkFree, Linked, DotNetNuke,...
Collaboration / sharing and all that good 2.0...
We all know collaberation and sharing online is one of the biggest social changes of recent years. We now perform all sorts of activities via our keyboard tappings that we used to do “outside” - chatting, telling people about our holidays, buying stuff, recruiting, dating, blah blah blah, pretty much everything.
So it seems from this that generally we all love being social, meeting...
“Web 3.0 will be when people stop talking about the Web, deasktop and Web 2.0 -...”
– Developer in eBay Platform and Disruptive Development Team
How many people can i get to listen to Seasick...
The gig of the year at the venue of the year took place last night and I was there. Seasick Steve played at the Bethnal Green Working Mans Club. At around 9.30 Steve walked from the back of the room, from the toilets i think, playing his 3 string transwonder and played his way to the stage where he destroyed the place.
He turned up on his own in a black cab and was made to queue with the punters...
Explaining Web 2.0 To My Dad Pt 2 - Technology
There were a number of technology things that came together at a similar time to make the development of Web 2.0 apps possible.
Connection speeds, endless amounts of storage, AJAX, SOA, rich internet application, feeds, rss, mash-ups. All this combines to bring the richness of desktop applications into web applications. We can now make applications rather than websites that are easy, intuitive...
Brilliant Web 2.0 Applications As I Use Them -...
Today I woke up without a hangover, which is in itself a weird experience on a sunday. But since I didn’t have to muddle my way through the morning post party / red wine fog I decided i need to get organised. Needless to say i got pretty tired of writing a list ( on paper! ), trying to use my google calendar, putting them in my phone. My girlfriend even suggested at one stage i use a diary,...
Explaining Web 2.0 To My Dad Pt 1
A couple of weeks ago, after too much Hoegaarden and killing time before going to see Femi Kuti at the Royal Festival Hall I had a conversation with my dad about what Web 2.0 is. Now, hes a pretty tech savvy and interested bloke so it was a good conversation but the result was that I realised maybe i didn’t have the clearest picture of what it is.
I started by trying to explain AJAX,...