I recently attended Rewired State with several fellow Osmosofties. Our group (Simon, Fred, Jeremy, Robbie and myself) developed a little mashup called Moving There (and a couple of other things not described here).
After the demos, our mashup was mentioned by a representative from DirectGov as one of several projects they’d like to work with, perhaps [...]
Tags: Ajax·Government·Mashup·Rewired State·Web 2.0
This is a new site I made: Twelebs. Twelebs shows the tweets of 80-odd celebrities, updated each minute:
Each celebrity has a short bio-summary:
… and a more detailed bio, fashioned from their Wikipedia entry:
Celebs are organised into eight categories:
… with celebs from all categories shown in the sidebar
Feedback welcome as always.
I’m listening to Steve Yegge’s talk on branding from last years OSCON.
He talks about how languages are branded, e.g. “Java” is enterprise. One of his main points is that brands are “const identifiers”, i.e. it takes an entire generation to change brand perception, so it’s often more effective to simply re-brand. e.g. GTE had a [...]
Tags: Ajax·Branding·Javascript·Web 2.0
Wolf Logan’s talking about paleosocial patterns (TOOLS Web 2.0 Patterns workshop). Very cool.
Marking – making permanent, public, marks. Dog marking its territory, “I was here” graffiti. e.g. blog comments, forums, guestbooks. Being obnoxious gets the comment noticed more.
Pointing – indicating resources to others, can be with opinions. Reputation will dictate how much people care. e.g. Reviewing/rating sites, Digg.
Competing – comparing [...]
We’ve done a little group exercise at the TOOLS web 2.0 patterns workshop. Designing a video website, with heavy emphasis on mashing up, e.g. show videos from youtube, grab recommendations from netflix, grab friend lists from Facebook, etc.
Here’s the full feature list (click for full image):
And the design:
We eventually identified features, at back end and [...]
Tags: Ajax·Ajax Patterns·Patterns·Web 2.0
It’s belatedly dawned on me how OpenSocial makes a great server-less Ajax platform. When you create an OpenSocial gadget, you’re building a lil Ajax app that performs much coolness that would normally require a server, but doesn’t. Effectively, you’re delegating the duties of the gadget’s host environment. All you have to do is write a [...]
Tags: Ajax·Ajax Patterns·Cloud·Gadgets·OpenSocial·Programming·Web·Web 2.0
I just realised there’s no good executive summary for OpenSocial. Every resource fluffs about the “social” aspect and forgets about the UI aspect. The UI aspect, essentially a gadget specification, is just as important as the social aspect, notwithstanding its absence from the “OpenSocial” brand name. I’m not a fan of the name “OpenSocial” [...]
Ajax, AjaxPatterns, Favicon, HTML, Javascript, Web, Web 2.0
I updated the favicon library a while ago, for a couple of projects I haven't released for various reasons. Anyway, Phil asked me about it, so I thought it's a good time to package it up and release it properly. And in the process wrote up Taking Browser [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·Favicon·HTML·Javascript·Links·Web·Web 2.0
