another web 2.0 report November 9, 2006

i am just fascinated by all the good articles i have lately found on german websites about web2.0. It is interesting reading this german o’reilly article about web 2.0 which was taken from  a master thesis. it once again talks about all the big web 2.0 services, explaining how and what ajax is, and so forth.

just right before the web 2.0 conference in san francisco, also o’reilly radar released another web 2.0 report. it takes a critical look at how release cycles for web services can change based on their hypes. and shows advantages and disadvantages of releasing earlier.

podcasting for fun? November 8, 2006

i have been developing a podcast tool (backend) for the company i work for.
it was fun digging once again into apple’s podcast technology and also the hype about rss and xml. this time i was more challenged b/c i had to use asp.net to implement the backend with.

i could not use this toolkit b/c we are not using asp.net 2.0 yet, thus, i needed a little bit more time to finish it.

overall, it was fun developing it and now i am thinking of starting my own podcast about ivy’s and my life or something. it’s easy to do, i guess i need just an audience for it.

technical specification from apples podcast page

online socializing November 7, 2006

once again i feel that i can relate to my german roots and also agree with germans regarding the linked article about myspace aiming for a global audience in the new york times. in america myspace is the online “in-place”, whereas germany, as i expected, does not like the design and thus feels more annoyed than fascinate by this online sozializing tool and continue using their cellphones to communicate quickly with theirs friends.

“People here think the design is bad,” [...] “and that is important for Germans.”

nice

It is true though, I really don’t think myspace is a place where professional musicians or artists show their best and their quality by putting up a weird page with funny backgrounds with endless loading time. to me, this is more a turn off than a turn on.

My favourite still, if socializing tool, then: friendster.com

california is the place to be November 6, 2006

this funny and interesting google map is showing the top 10 paid women, it’s good to be in the internet business, i can see

the firefox kid November 6, 2006

did you know that the person who started the firefox implementation is a young silicon-valley guy….i liked this article about blake

services behind web 2.0 November 6, 2006

what is web 2.0, why do we need it, why do we want it? it’s not easy to describe the new hype in a few words: however, showing and naming examples of big web 2.0 “realizers” are listed on this german faz (frankfurter allgemeine zeitung) article. nice and easy to read. why flickr, myspace and youtube are dominant figures of web 2.0 (german)

tooth November 6, 2006

my tooth is bugging me again. i will see a doctor this afternoon.

oop November 6, 2006

i have to admit: after a long time of trying, i think i finally got it right in my head: the mysteries about oop: i never got it during my computer science program in university neither at my first job.

besides just learing oop patterns with asp.net, i read a good and short article about oop with php ( i want to get started with that soon) which both helped me to develop better understanding in object oriented programming.

let’s see how much more i can learn….