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. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Networking
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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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, … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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stepheno.net Migrating to FeedBurner
I will be migrating my RSS feeds to FeedBurner during the next few days. Considering the fact that stepheno.net is almost two weeks old, I thought it would be wiser to make the switch before too many more people subscribe. … Continue reading
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JamGlue Online Sound Mixing
And JamGlue actually works surprisingly well. I briefly tried it out, after they publicly launched yesterday (Dec. 15th). This past year I have actually learned some of ProTools. In that sense I’m kind of spoiled, with my first introduction to … Continue reading
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MySpace Passwords Beat Corp. Passwords
Bruce Schneier at Wired analyzed 34,000 user names and passwords “spoils from a MySpace phishing attack” (This attack?). Schneier concludes that MySpace passwords aren’t so dumb. Less than four percent of the passwords were dictionary words, and the majority were … Continue reading
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Nancy19 Your Future Leader?
According to one study, the typical person who participates in online communities, i.e. Nancy19, is your future leader. Characterisitics of people who participate in online communities are: *Fast followers *More flexible *Open communicators *Aspire to greatness *Looking for new, innovative … Continue reading
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Helping the Overweight Internet
Traineo Fitness & Weight Loss Community, a new mySpace alternative for people who want to maintain or get into shape. Traineo is based on accountability by a few trusted friends or family. For a more detailed review check out what … Continue reading
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Web 2.0 running out of time to where?
So you all have a couple blogs and news sites you just have to check out each day. Not forgetting email, IM’ing (Instant Messaging) and your cellphone. If you don’t keep it all on, and connected, you get that aching … Continue reading