Archive for October 23rd, 2006

Octo23

Christian Decker

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Web 2.0, a (not so) serious comparison

Web 2.0 is the thing going on right now on the web and everytbody is asking, “what the heck is it?”, so Jeff Zeldman has put together a nice comparison between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0: Clearly “Web 2.0″ means different things to different journalists on different days. Mostly it means nothing—except a bigger paycheck. But let’s simplify what The Economist is saying: Web 1.0: AOL buys Time Warner. Web 2.0: Google buys YouTube. Put another way: Web 1.0: New media company buys old media company. Web 2.0: New media company buys new media company. If we’re stuck with this meaningless Web 2.0 label, let’s at least have some fun with it. Here’s my new game. I’ll start, you finish: Web 1.0: Joshua Davis on the cover of Art News. Web 2.0: 37signals on the cover of Forbes. Web 1.0: Users create the content (Slashdot). Web 2.0: Users create the content (Flickr). Web 1.0: Crap sites on Geocities. Web 2.0: Crap sites on MySpace. Web 1.0: Writing. Web 2.0: Rating. Web 1.0: Karma Points. Web 2.0: Diggs. Web 1.0: Cool Site of the Day. Web 2.0: Technorati.com. Web 1.0: Tags. Web 2.0: “Tags.” Web 1.0: Bookmarking. Web 2.0: Bookmark sharing. Web 1.0: Pointless Flash widgets. Web 2.0: Pointless “Ajax” widgets. And the commenters go on: Web 1.0: 12px h2 Web 2.0: 51px h2 Web 1.0: Animated gif Web 2.0: Badges Web 1.0: Arial Web 2.0: Arial Rounded/Georgia Web 1.0: Bloated Table Code Web 2.0: Divitis Web 1.0 : Deserted blogs on Blogger Web 2.0 : Deserted blogs on WordPress Web 1.0 : The past Web 2.0 : The present Web 3.0 : The future Web 1.0: “Under Construction” Web 2.0: “Beta” So are you Web 2.0 or still Web 1.0? :D
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Octo23

Christian Decker

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Reputation Defender

Digital reputation is getting ever more important these days, especially after uncovering some stories that big companies have started searching the Web for informations about their new applicants. Well the solution has arrived: Reputation Defender. They explain what they do like this:
First, we SEARCH. We scour the Internet to dig up every possible piece of information about you and present it in an interactive monthly report. You can view this report by email or by logging into our site. This information is detailed in straightforward categories, including:
  • Social networks (MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, Bebo, and more);
  • Professional review websites;
  • Blogs;
  • Online news sources;
  • Photograph, video, and audio sharing sites (Flickr, YouTube, etc.); and,
  • Millions of additional sites on the “open Internet.”
Next, we DESTROY. You can select any content from your report that you don’t like. This is where we go to work for you. Our trained and expert online reputation advocates use an array of proprietary techniques developed in-house to correct and/or completely remove the selected unwanted content from the web. This is an arduous and labor-intensive task, but we take the job seriously so you can sleep better at night. We will always and only be in YOUR corner.
I’m pretty curious about how exactly they destroy information about me… If I run a website and post something about somebody and he’s decided that he doesn’t like it, what can they possibly do to take down my content? Sue me, hack me? I don’t get it… There is a simple rule in Online Reputation, just like in real live, behave well and don’t upset anybody, and nobody will ever blackmail you :D [via BasicThinking.de]
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Octo23

Christian Decker

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Dojo 0.4 Release Upon Us

The Dojo team is eyeing a full release for Tuesday at The Ajax Experience (a lot of the team will be here!). Today they put out which will probably be the final release candidate, so baring any issues in testing we will be ready. Dojo 0.4 Features
  • GFX Library
  • Internationalization infrastructure
  • dojo.debug.console: console logger, improved debugging with Firebug
  • dojo.html.metrics - scrollbar width measurement, current font size measurements, the ability to get how much of an HTML fragment will fit on a single line in a container, and to populate a container node with as much of an HTML fragment as will fit into it. Also included is a way of measuring the dimensions of a node if one was to populate it with a specific HTML fragment.
  • Widget Infrastructure: namespace support, subwidgets, refactoring of dir structure
  • Widgets: New widgets have been added and updated including: VML support, FilteringTable widget, Slider, Toaster, DropDownTimePicker, RadioGroup, Clock, ProgressBar, Datepicker, Editor, AccordionContainer, and many more.
Read more in the release notes, and stop by Alex Russells Dojo session at The Ajax Experience for more info. We will put up information from his talk. [via Ajaxian]
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