August 2006 Archives
15 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee publicly released his WWW project onto the Internet. According to Wikipedia: "On August 6, 1991, he [TBL] posted a short summary of the World
With the launch of Microsoft's blogging and social networking platform, Windows Live Spaces (formally MSN Spaces), there has been an increase in interest around gadgets - i.e. mini web apps.
Next in my series on international web apps is Korea. I have Chang W. Kim, who runs a blog called Web 2.0 Asia, to thank for providing me with all
Mitch Kapor, famous for co-founding Lotus 1-2-3 in the 80's and more recently the ambitious Personal Info Manager product Chandler (which is taking an awful long time to build -
Tom Wolfe could write a novel about this...or at least a short story. Cartoon by Oliver Widder, via Nick Carr's comments. Jason Calacanis also notes: "I think we have three
Widgets (aka gadgets, modules) are mini web apps that you can plug in to a webpage or site such as MySpace, or a personalized start page like Netvibes or live.com.
The Diggtrends website has just done some stats relating to the Netscape owner's offer to buy out digg's top users. They found that the top 10 users contributed 1792 of
This has turned into a very enjoyable series, profiling web products being built all over the world! The latest list is for Poland, courtesy of Sebastian Kwiecien - who runs
Nisan Gabbay of Silicon Valley VC firm Sierra Ventures has started up an interesting new blog called Startup Review, which aims to profile Web startups from a business angle. Here's