web 2.0
Web 2.0 narcissism and geeking out in Northeastern Wisconsin
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m in Appleton, Wisconsin for the holidays and aside from chilling out after a really amazing year, I wanted to see what was going on around here from a tech perspective. Back when we were putting together Open Hack Day, I got an email from Bob Waldron [...]
Widgets are the ringtones for the MySpace generation
Today, I was thinking about widgets and marketplaces like the Wallop Modder Network that allow for the buying and selling of widgets. The over-30 curmudgeon in me wondered, “why would anyone ever buy and sell silly little widgets for their blogs?” Then I remembered the always-surprising (at least to me) ringtone market, and [...]
Wikipedia as Unix man page
Lately, I’m finding an unanticipated (but not entirely surprising) use of Wikipedia as richer extended versions of Unix man pages. Who needs man man when you have Manual page (Unix)? I came to this conclusion when I was looking at the wget man page in my terminal last night and I kept having [...]
Microformats are huge at Yahoo!
From the Yahoo! Local blog (which is itself new), a massive announcement about Yahoo! support of microformats:
Starting today, we’re happy to announce Yahoo! Local fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews.
In sheer volume, I’m pretty sure this means Yahoo! Local has the largest implementation [...]
The Onion at Yahoo: Peter Koechley
Today, I brought in Peter Koechley, managing editor of The Onion, for the weekly speaker series I run at Yahoo!
I love the Onion, and Peter’s talk did not disappoint. He took us through some of his favorite Onion headlines of the past, read some of the headlines he had written that didn’t ultimately make [...]
Reading 2.0 and microformats
Yesterday, I participated in the Reading 2.0 summit (organized by Peter Brantley of the California Digital Library), a small gathering in San Francisco about the future of digitized material, with the digitization of books being a primary topic. Tim O’Reilly did an amazing job of taking notes.
As Tim notes, I gave a [...]
See you at Mashup Camp
I’ll be at Mashup Camp on Monday and Tuesday. Hope to see some of you there. If you want to meet up, e-mail me at chad at chaddickerson with the usual dot com at the end.
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Yahoo! User Interface Library: amazing and free
In my very first days at Yahoo! working with the team that made the Local Events Browser demo using a bunch of Yahoo! APIs, I was really amazed at the Javascript/CSS talent assembled at Yahoo! As of today, a huge chunk of it is out there for anyone to use and the people who [...]
Salesforce.com and API metrics
Although I’m not as engaged with the topics of software and services for the enterprise as I used to be, I’m still keeping up with what’s going on at Salesforce.com. I was a customer in my InfoWorld days and also wrote some nice things about their web services platform early on in its development. [...]
Mashup Camp: a cool idea
David Berlind is working on a simple but killer concept for an “unconference” he’s calling “Mashup Camp” (and he’s already got the domain mashupcamp.com, so it’s not just an idle idea):
My goal for Mashup Camp is to do the opposite of what all these other Web 2.0-esque conferences are doing. It won’t be invitation [...]