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Archive for December, 2005

Web 2.0 (pssst…what is it?)

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

I finished reading this article by Paul Graham earlier today. GREAT stuff. It summarizes a great deal of what I’ve been thinking about lately in regards to this “Web 2.0″ phenomenon. Like or not, the term is widely used and made much of at this point, although exactly what it actually means is a matter […]

THE Web 2.0 Directory: eHub

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Thanks to a comment poster at Signal vs. Noise (I think?!), I found out about this tremendously cool directory of links to “Web 2.0″ sites/services. Called eHub, it lists all of the cool nifty Web tools I wish I’d invented. Someday, somehow, perhaps I’ll create a Webapp that will grace the airy anchor tags of […]

Tooltip.js: sweet Web 2.0-style tooltips

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Update: I just fixed a typo in the Tooltip URL. My bad!
Davey Shafik, a well-known PHP coder, has now released some Javascript fun for us Web geeks. It’s called Tooltip.js, and it allows you to create tooltips for various elements on your pages while using all the latest fun Javascript effects that you are used […]

Stating the obvious: tagging is the future

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

I’m going to say something so blindingly obvious, so “pointy-haired boss” duh, so incredibly lame, that you’ll wonder why you’re spending precious time reading this post. But it still needs to be said.
Tagging is the future, and will probably eliminate the need for folders in most cases.
By tagging I mean Flickr and Del.icio.us style tagging, […]