Live blogging The Short and Glorious Life of Web 2.0 presentation at Webstock 09 by Zeitgeist Author and Wired Blogger, Bruce Sterling. Bruce starts by saying, here in New Zealand, we have lost sight of Web 2.0. Mistakes have been made. You think it’s the world of tag clouds, drop shadows and ...

Works at the Australian Museum. Had an idea for the museum web site 4 years ago and it has taken this long to get to this pre-launch stage. The public services world is about analysing, justifying and strategizing. The commercial sector is fasc tub the public service process is incredibly slow. This...

Got started in this biz because every client he ever had came to him with problems relating to web site sign ups. Wrote book called The Usage Lifecycle. First up: Sign up is hard. If you have 8% of first time visitors signing up for a *free* account, you’re doing well. When we think about the ...

Starts with an example of a blind user trying to call a website help line. Blind User: “Hello? I need some help please” Help desk staff: “What is your login password please?” Blind User: “Just a moment”. (He starts JAWS screen reader that reads out his password lo...

A Mashup Case Study by EveryBlock.com founder Adrian Holovaty A mini Google Maps app was actually developed by a NZ developer using the Google API. Got Adrian thinking and he developed ChicagoCrime.org which then morphed into EveryBlock.com ChicagoCrime.org was a mashup of crime data put together fr...

Pentru evenimentul dedicat blogging-ului si web 2.0, pe care il pregatim pentru septembrie, vom pune in practica mai multe idei, din dorinta de a oferi mai multa interactivitate si content sub diverse forme participantilor. De fapt, intentia noastra este aceea de a integra cat mai multe servicii onl...

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Ce mi se pare misto la Twitter e ca afli pe unde mai merge lumea si mai ales cine cu cine se mai intalneste. Florin de vreo doua zile ne tine la curent cu filmarea noului clip Hi-Q, "Asa-s prietenii", si astazi ne-a prezentat noua colega de trupa. De fapt nu de Twitter vroiam sa vorbesc. Mi-am adus ...

SiteProNews have now published my 2 part article based on the Webstock 2008 presentation by Google’s Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Craig Nevill-Manning. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2. In his presentation, Craig, who is New Zealand born and bred, explained how Google uses science to develop m...

Nat Torkington has chaired the O’Reilly Open Source Convention and other O’Reilly conferences for over a decade. He ran the first web site in New Zealand, co-wrote the best-selling Perl Cookbook and was on of the founding Radar bloggers. Nat started off by saying he’s not going to ...