August 6th, 2008
I decided to add a Wordpress app to my iPhone and then discovered my blog was too old… So I upgraded Wordpress from 2.3 to 2.6. That was a bit of a mission… And then I discovered my theme was incompatible!
So I managed to find a nice theme that I liked (incredible!), upgraded that and some of the plugins, and here I am, 2 hours later…
But at least I can blog via the iPhone now…
This thing is getting better the more I use it. I can take photos, blog, twitter… all from my 'phone'. The little keyboard still takes some getting used to though.
November 11th, 2005
Some people are a little confused by this latest trend, wondering what all the fuss is about and why it's becoming the next best thing since sliced bread… or hyperlinks. So I'll do my best to explain it.
With Web 1.0 if you find a website that you like, you added it to your bookmarks. You may have filed it under any type of bookmark folder categorisation, including news, personal, entertainment, etc etc. From that point on, it required you to remember what the site was about, and to manually go back to it whenever you thought of it.
November 11th, 2005
Over at Blink List, I've been working on tagging my site with all kinds of various tags related to all the posts on my blog. As a result of what I've been doing, I now have a tag cloud over there, which looks like this:
What I've found very exciting is the 'weighting' of tags. What this means is that the more stuff you have tagged with a particular word, the larger is the text of that tag. And the 'heavier' it is, the larger it gets, and it becomes more colourful too.
November 2nd, 2005
Web 2.0 is an 'upgraded version' of the internet that's being driven by people and what they're interested in. Those that cater to this are developing methods of allowing people to find and use information and services that are specific to their needs. Social networking is a concept that many people are rushing into.
November 1st, 2005
Continuing my latest interest in Web 2.0 and 'social bookmarking', I've discovered a bookmarking / tagging site called BlinkList. A good pae that describes it and how it can be used is here: What makes Blink List special.
If you like an entry on this blog you can click on the 'Blink It' button at the bottom of the post. This will bring up a page that will allow you to enter a description of the page you're 'blinking', as well any tags you feel are relevent, and you can then submit it. (UPDATE: I just found out you have to be a member to do that. But hey, it's free!)
October 31st, 2005
Web 2.0. You may or may not have heard of it. I've been hearing more and more about it over the past few weeks, so I thought I'd take the time to talk a little bit about it.
What is it?
Over here is a very succint, and yet, technical description:
Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an "architecture of participation," and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.
September 19th, 2005
Ever since I got into RSS feeds last week, or whenever it was, I've been using Bloglines for my web-based RSS viewing of favourite websites. You can see the sites I keep up to date with this way by looking to the left there. 'My Blogroll', powered by Bloglines, is auto-created and udpated by Bloglines to show those sites I keep up to date with via RSS.
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