Category: Web 2.0

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Work’s been pretty busy the last few weeks leading up to the holidays (and I’m now on holiday till 7 January, hurrah!

I’m continuing to talk with my colleague Sandy about how we could show used for more stuff in work in the Web2.0 area – trying to avoid the old work trap of “Here’s a solution.Now, let’s find a problem it might fix.”

We’ve now actually got a WordPress implementation at work, and I’ve been blogging there, too. Mostly about my previous views as to why a wiki *might* be a useful adjunct to an intranet.

I’ve been using twitter a lot more, and am currently feeding jaiku with twitter…

I’ve open a Backpackit account with my WordPress OpenID, and tried to do the same with QDOS – failing miserably.

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Since I started using Facebook regularly, the most interesting things I’ve found are:

  • blog posts written by others, that lead me to find out more about what’s happening in the internet area (OK, I’m failing to avoid saying Web 2.0)
  • bits in people status feeds that make me think “I wonder what that is?”

Some of the things I’ve found recently (yes, I know they’re all probably old hat)

Twitter – letting folk know your presence/activity

Jaiku – another presence/group/blogging monitoring thing, with the ability to add “channels”

Spinvox – does voice to text stuff, but lets you update Facebook/twitter/Jaiku by phone, which is fun

Tumblr – which allows you to rapidly add links, quotes, text, photos to a stream – and you can add channels, too. I use it for grabbing links, which I RSS to my blog

Tabblo – a photo/text/story/printing site – lets you *easily* bring photos in from Flickr and fairly easily from Picasa; let’s you produce interesting photo displays that you can print as PDF; locally; for free …

Picknik – which lets you edit *online* phots on your PC, Picasa, Facebook, Flickr. Very nice.

Pandora – recommends – and plays – music for you based on characteristics of music that you’ve indicated you like. Lots of fun, and works differently to last.fm which I also use

I think I’ll probably edit this as I recall/use more bits ‘n bobs.