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Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

July 21, 2007

Web Trend Subway Map 2007

Information Architects have made a Subway map for: Web Trends of 2007. The most successful companies and websites, including a number of my favorite Web 2.0 solutions, are plotted, categorized with color-coding and rated by size and popularity with stars. Personally I like the way that have portrayed the data, in a clear and familiar [...]

February 25, 2007

Facebook Peer Pressure

For the past year friends of mine have subtly been hinting that I join the social-networking site Facebook. Earlier perceiving it as a myspace etc. clone, I resisted for months. But lately I have been receiving more invitations and on Friday I finally subsided. I though that this will eventually be a chance to practically [...]

February 8, 2007

Yahoo! Pipes Like Command Pipes

If you have played in Apple’s terminal, or any other *NIX system the chances are there that you have done some piping with your commands. Remember: || … Now Yahoo! offers a service they have called Pipes: Allowing you to pipe various commands and services together.        I really like the direction this service seems to [...]

January 3, 2007

First Follow-up Web 2.0 running out of time?

Well, I have already backtracked to my article Web 2.0 running out of time to where? a couple of times. Now a blog entry by ZDNet’s Steve O’Hear titled Could 2007 be the year of social network fatigue? was just Slashdotted. I recently mentioned ProfileLinker as one solution (ProfileLinker Simplifying Social Networking), but it also [...]

December 30, 2006

ProfileLinker Simplifying Social Networking

I found out about ProfileLinker the other day. ProfileLinker will let you maintain your different social networking profiles from the same place, on their site. Almost weekly I receive invites from my friends and contacts to some new social network, and I kindly ignore them in lack of time. So to be able to control [...]

December 17, 2006

Time’s Person of the Year: You

Time magazine’s person of the year is you! The online communities that make a change in the world, are truly giving results. YouTube and mySpace are maybe the most known examples. Excerpt from Time.com: “The new Web is a very different thing. It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people [...]