Social Web
Front-End Design Conference 2011
July 29, 2011
Last Thursday, I made a trek to St. Pete for the Front-End Design Conference. Dan and Cherrie Denney are a class act and do an awesome job of hosting this event each year. It is a small, yet top shelf event with leading voices from the industry. The atmosphere that makes it easy to meet [...]
Cookies from New York
June 4, 2011
It is amazing how the Internet has changed our lives. I think about the fact that I just had a face-to-face conversation with one my best friends who lives in Hungary. I remember a time when our relationship consisted of a couple letters a year. Now we talk pretty regularly on Skype. Twitter and social [...]
A Match.com for Families?
September 18, 2006
So your family does not have any close friends? Well now there is a solution for you. A new social networking website called Friends for Families is here. It is sort of a Match .com for families. All you have to do is pay a yearly fee, fill out a profile and begin looking for [...]
Web 2.0 and Group Therapy
April 19, 2006
Kathy Sierra writes about the differences between “an architecture of participation” and “Sharing.” The first contributes content that we can benefit from. The second seems to be sharing too much information about our private lives. She pleas with those doing Web 2.0 to not let “harnessing the collective intelligence” become a place for group therapy. [...]
The Del.icio.us Lesson
February 23, 2006
This comes from Joshua Porter. The del.icio.us lesson Personal value precedes network value People rarely do things for the “good of the network” Del.icio.us, though providing very cool tagging features, is mostly about a single person remembering items for later. His third point resonates with me because that is how I use del.icio.us. I think [...]
The Apostle Paul and MySpace.com
February 9, 2006
Over 47 million people are hanging out on MySpace.com. What would the Apostle Paul think of the virtual world of MySpace.com? are some thoughts of a web evangelists that encourages us to go to where the culture is just as the Apostle Paul did in Athens.
Web 2.0 Themes
October 20, 2005
Last week, I attended the User Interface Conference in Boston. It was hosted by UIE. It was a really good conference and I would like to go back next year if I can get the funding. Joshua Porter did a seminar on Web 2.0 and here is my summary. He talked about it using different [...]