Emre Sokullu wrote a great post a few weeks ago on Read/Write web entitled Pivots of the Web where he overviews the stages in development of the internet as we know it today. Interestingly there’s no mention of mobile anywhere in his diagram, although I guess as a channel rather than a “pivot” he may… [Read more…]
June 25, 2007
Readwriteweb has just started a new series called “All you need to know about…” and first up is e-learning 2.0. There are some great applications here – some of them are very familiar to me but others are new. Check out Nuvvo for example – “an easy way to build online courses and deliver them… [Read more…]
June 6, 2007
My Clash of the Networks post has got a bunch of traffic – not surprising really – underlying this is an emotive issue which all museums, and probably most technologists, struggle with. Mike Lowndes (ex NHM Website Manager) has opened up a thread in the comments which expands the “should we free our data?” question… [Read more…]
May 28, 2007
With the opening of the Facebook Platform a war has broken out, with the two sides aligned with similar views to the ones we talked about at Museums and the Web. On the one hand is MySpace, the rambling, ugly behemoth with over 100 million accounts, a closed database of users and no API. On… [Read more…]
May 19, 2007
I got a sign-in for the alpha release Freebase a few days ago and I’m pretty interested in what I’ve seen. Freebase is, to quote a couple of commentators: “possibly the most exciting thing to happen to the web for some time”. Or, as TechCrunch put it: “This is cool, unless it achieves consciousness and… [Read more…]
May 18, 2007
Anyone who is in any doubt about the power of the social web or, specifically, blogging, should take a look at the graph on the left. This was the moment that Engadget’s Ryan Block posted that Apple’s iPhone was going to be delayed by several months. In six minutes, $4 Billion dollars was wiped off… [Read more…]
May 17, 2007
Two things got a load of coverage this week which should – for very different reasons – be getting us museum types excited. First off, Google analytics launched a new version which is being rolled out for existing users. Seb Chan mentioned it on a recent post and also links to a couple of introductory… [Read more…]
May 16, 2007
I’ve been dabbling on All Consuming over the weekend and admiring the way the site gets around too much of a sense of obsessive compulsive-ness with some great design (both visual and technical). One of the problems is that it takes a while to add stuff (unless you’ve got some kind of database already in… [Read more…]
May 12, 2007
I spent the day on Thursday at Eduserv’s Symposium, this year focusing on the question: “Virtual worlds, real learning?”. It was superbly organised (“blended“, apparently!) and a very interesting day all round. The focus, as you would expect was mostly on Second Life but several of the speakers at least gave lip service to the… [Read more…]
May 4, 2007
Juha just commented on my Digg post and asked about what I thought the whole thing means for museums. I started replying and then thought I might do a post instead. I think the most obvious thing is that the Digg scenario adds weight to many of the arguments we’ve had already. Most obviously, community… [Read more…]
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