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Monthly Archives: September 2006

Enterprise 2.0: Data Syndication

While Web 2.0 technologies have become very wide spread in consumer-facing websites, many enterprise developers have struggled to find anything relevant to their requirements (apart from some AJAX based UI improvements).
Recently, Bob Lee pointed out how useful Firefox live bookmarks are for keeping track of online documents.
I think this is the future for enterprise 2.0 [...]

Online Application Composition: Mashups++

One of the reasons I started this blog was to explore some more speculative ideas. Online Application Composition (OAC) is one of these ideas.
To some extent this idea this is inspired by Chris Anderson’s post on embedding Google Spreadsheet in a webpage. The real trigger, though, was Google’s release of the GData API for Google [...]

Spam in social news sites

Greg and some other commentators have posted a few thoughts on how spam on Digg is becoming a problem
It should be pointed out that Netscape.com has an even bigger problem:

It takes less votes to get to the front page on Netscape
There are even more users of Netscape than Digg
Netscape users are often less experienced than [...]

AttentionTrust: Good idea?

I’ve written a piece on my work blog which may interest some readers: AttentionTrust: why not everything that seems like a good idea is. In it I argue that many of the principles set out by AttentionTrust.org are not the wonderful ideas they seem.
(Thanks also to my fellow antipodeian Richard MacManus for the link love [...]