I’m a little late to this, but it is worth noting that events guru Ryan Carson - co-founder of the Carsonified conference and training company which does the rocking FOWA - recently sold his web app DropSend, some two years after putting it on the block. The buyer is Webminds who, I understand, picked the app up for an undisclosed amount, though I gather it was in the low six figures. I hear Webminds plans to take on the much larger and well funded YouSendIt which has $34 million in backing. Ryan says he plans to plough the money from DropSend back into Carsonified, possibly to build more web apps. Ryan - who for the record I like and I credit with being one of the guys who kicked off Web 2.0 in the UK - and I have had philosophical differences in the past. Hell, we’re going...

Li and colleagues have developed a way of looking at web logs so that webmasters can evolve their web sites to boost and retain visitors significantly. Their approach is based on what they describe as simple, yet effective descriptive statistical techniques that reveal the relationship between traffic workload and visitor domains names and geographic locations. The regularities and patterns that emerge can shed light on how to design a better web site and enhance its...

James Sandborn reports on Web 3.0.Web 3.0, also known as the Semantic Web, uses smart programs to tag and link to information across mediums, providing context and depth to stories without much human intervention.The fully realized Semantic Web is a vision on the horizon. But it's one many online leaders are taking seriously.It could bring more precise search results to users, drive traffic to smaller local publications and change the way all online publishers reach their audiences. via Martin...

Moltii ancora stanno tentando di comprendere cosa sia Web 2.0 e già si parla su cosa potremo vedere nella prossima generazione di web, Il Web...

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Whilst waiting for my comment to be published on the Daily Mail web site, I took a quick glance at their terms and conditions - just to ensure that there wasn't some obvious rule that I was breaking by calling attention to their hypocrisy. I didn't find the "you can't disagree with us" rule, but I did find this interesting clause:You may not provide a link to this web site from any other web site without first obtaining Associated's prior written consent.Which basically says that you can't blog about the Mail's site. Well, I suppose you can, but you can't provide links to the source material.And just above that nonsense, is this:You may not distribute, display or copy any of the contents of the pages contained in this web site to third parties including, but not limited to "caching" any...

I’ve recently been doing little bits and pieces helping out with the organisation of a very interesting event called ScotWeb2. It will take place on 31 October from 1000 to 1600 at the Holyrood Campus of Edinburgh University. It will be an informal barcamp / unconference-style event. It’s being organised by Alex Stobart who works at the Scottish Government. Dave Briggs is also helping out and the event will be backed by BT. I’ve mostly been trying to drum up interest among bloggers because it could also be a good opportunity for some bloggers to meet up and talk shop a bit. But it will be about much more than that. It will be about the application of web 2.0 technologies in general, in government, in the private sector and in the ‘third sector’. Among the...

Bored of Internetshire By Tim CaynesSimply the best blog I've ever seen, Tim Caynes rejection of the Blogosphere (tags: tim-caynes) How to handle dead horses From Stuart Webb's Blog: It's probably just going to be manic ramblings.... Probably seen something like this before, but it made me chuckle, I suspect that 'dead horses' might be an analogy for 'failed projects', lol. (tags: stuart-webb project-management) Extensions promised for Google Chrome Browser, News at CNET.co.uk It's all good talking up the extensions to compete with the excellent FireFox community contributions, but at the moment...

WebHostingRating.com is a new host rating site where we are trying to build the biggest searchable web hosting directory featuring complete information on all web hosting providers, all their web hosting plans, promotional and discount coupons, and unedited reviews by real customers. I wish I had come across this site earlier, Web Hosting Rating is an easy to use site that checks out, compares and provide you with info on which webhosts best suits yourself. I’ve had the experience of searching for web hosts for this blog and it wasn’t easy at all. When you run a search for good web hosts for example, what you what to see is not just how that company presents and advertises itself but also most importantly user’s comments and reviews about their experience of using that...

Luke W., master of forms, is at An Event Apart San Francisco to tell us about hierarchy in web apps. He asks whether visual hierarchy matters and how we can construct a visual hierarchy. Let’s face it, people don’t read everything when they get to a web page. Instead, they look around frantically until they see something that looks vaguely like what they’re interested in and then click on something to find out if that’s what they want, hitting the back button if it isn’t. We have an evolutionary capability to assess things quickly and tune stuff out. The are three design considerations with web apps: Organisation. The structure of the app. Interaction. The behaviour of the app. Presentation. How your app looks to the audience. The presentation layer...

Jason Santa Maria is here at An Event Apart San Francisco to give a design counterbalance to Eric’s code-filled talk. He kicks off with a heavy question: the meaning of web design. We often talk about the tools like grids and typography but we often overlook the storytelling aspect. Usually we’re trying to accomplish a narrative through design, such as a visitor to a site buying a product. From an early age, we’re taught to recognise stories. We learn to recognise stories from pictures before we can even read. This is graphic resonance. The game Haunted House on an old-school Atari. It’s fear personified, jokes Jason of the pixelly 8-bit images. The graphics don’t tell you much but if you look at the packaging, it sets the mood for the game. The designer is the narrator....

[from Haringey Met Police web site] Haringey Safer Neighbourhoods Team Level Web Pages This week, 4th August 2008, sees the launch of a pilot project, which sees each Safer Neighbourhoods Team in Haringey having their own web page. The project aims to enhance the current information provided on the Safer Neighbourhoods website by providing ward level information for each of the 19 Safer Neighbourhoods teams in Haringey.  Each Safer Neighbourhoods team has their own web page that can be accessed using a direct web address, through the borough site or by using the postcode search facility on the Safer Neighbourhoods home page. The project will run as a pilot on Haringey borough for four weeks, starting on 4th August 2008.  The content of these pages is based on research by the...

Gah! Right now I should be packing my bags for a lovely long weekend away. But I have had to post to share my utter disbelief and frustration. I have just had a letter from O2, my mobile phone provider. It reads: This letter concerns your O2 Web Bolt On data usage. Your usage is significantly above the normal levels we expect to see with this product and we think you may be in breack of our terms. O2 Web Bolt On is subject to terms of use which stipulate that all usage must be for private, personal and non-commercial purposes and that you may not use your SIM Card: in, or connected to, any other device including modems. to allow the continuous streaming of any audio / video content, enabe Voice over Internet (Voip), P2P or file sharing; or in such a way that adversely impacts the service...

If Web 2.0 was about the growth in UGC and Social Networks, what will be the next social web evolution? To talk about it as Web 3.0 would be misleading – this could be the combination of cross platform social networking for example – it’s more of an update really, bringing it up to 2.1. To say people are bored of social networks is a misnomer. Although the number of users signed upto Facebook...

Two things in one here: A heads up on an event tomorrow (don’t worry, you can still catch it), and an interesting way to look at things. Tomorrow sees a talk from Sir Tim Berners-Lee (recently voted the most important technology innovator of the last century), focussing in on web science. It is an area I am fascinated by, so I’m chuffed to be going along. Web science looks at the impact of the web on our society and economy and combines a number of disciplines dear to my heart. He will be joined by Andy Duncan (Chief Executive of Channel 4) and Charlie Leadbeater (author of “We-think“: The Power of Mass Creativity’) for discussion on the role of governments, business and academia in safeguarding the future of the web as an open platform. The session...

Web This kvetch from Jemima about Web 2.0 names ties neatly with a line that was in The New Quiz last night. According to Carrie Quinlan, the Wikipedia should be a description of someone who shags baskets. It’s all in the pronunciation....

I've just returned from an overnight visit to Nottingham to participate in a forum organised by the telecommunications trade union Connect. Together with my good friend and Internet guru Eric Lee, I spoke at workshops yesterday afternoon and this morning on e-campaigning. I addressed e-campaigning generally and used three web sites as case studies:My own web siteThe American Consumers UnionBarack Obama's campaign web site Eric spoke specifically about e-campaigning by trade unions and the web site LabourStart. You'll find an excellent and very current example of a trade union e-campaign...

I needed a full list of design showcases and couldn't seem to find a complete one out there. So after much procrastination, I got around to updating the list of web design showcases on the 939 Design website. A really useful alphabetical list. If there's any missing please let me know. Alvit - vitaly friedman's css showcase Best Web Gallery - best web design gallery apparently! BRDCAST - inspiration and resources Boxed CSS - only the best sites make this list!Cool Home Pages - they certainly are! Cool Site Collection - very cool sites!Creative and Link - you do, they do, we showCSS Bag - a web design showcase CSS Based - one of the best css web design showcases CSS Beauty - beautiful design showcase CSS Blast - web design showcase CSS Bloom - 'blooming good'...

Web 2.0 is an inclusive phrase that covers the new web based networking, customisation and data management functionalities that have emerged since 2000. 2000 is a significant start point because it played host to two important events in the gestation of Web 2.0. First, 2000 was the year of the dotcom crash which, in an almost Darwinian sense, extinguished poor performing technologies and ideas and created the intellectual, technological and financial ‘space’ for something new. And second, 2000 was the year that Google began real take-off after receiving $25m of venture capital in 1999. This investment paved the way for Google to expand globally and redefine the way web information is catalogued, ordered and retrieved worldwide.It’s important to note that the web as a technology...

In this edition of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly we have web trends, sunglasses and green footwear: Good Bad Ugly Web 3.0: the semantic web – the web is hitting a plateau and needs a paradigm shift Web 2.0: what was a philosophical leap forward in web development has become overburdened by suits and and the great unwashed Mobile web: whilst I use Twitter and Bloglines on my mobile phone, the mobile web has yet to deliver its true potential Vintage Ray-Ban – I am currently rocking a set of Ray Ban Shooter with ambermatic lens from the early 1990s. Thanks to the whole 80s revival I have a lot of people admiring them. I am glad that I left them in the back of the drawer for the past decade rather than throwing them out like I stupidly did with my Oakley T-wires CAZAL...

More and more commentators are writing about ignoring Google PageRank, that it’s no longer that important when it comes to getting a good ranking. People have noticed that some web pages apperaing near the top of some search engine results pages (SERPs) have a lower page rank than those further down the page - henece page rank is not that important. I’d say that if you ignore PageRank or more accurately, ignore the theory behind PageRank when you are promoting your website online, you can expect to get good rankings through accidental marketing only. Unless you are the type of business or individual that updates their website on a regular basis, once a week or thereabouts, ignoring the theory of how PageRank works will negatively impact your online traffic. Lets go back to a...

The enigmatic Steven Pemberton is at XTech to tell us Why you should have a Web site: it’s the law! (and other Web 3.0 issues). God, I hope he’s using Web 3.0 ironically. Steven has heard many predictions in his time: that we will never have LCD screens, that digital photography could never replace film, etc. But the one he wants to talk about is Moore’s Law. People have been seeing that it hasn’t got long to go since 1977. Steven is going to assume that Moore’s Law is not going to go away in his lifetime. In the 1980s the most powerful computers were the Crays. People used to say One day we will all have a Cray on our desk. In fact most laptops are about 120 Craysworth and mobile phones are about 35 Craysworth. There is actually an LED correlation to Moore’s Law (brighter...

Happy birthday, Web — 15 years old today. By May 1st 1993 all the elements for the information revolution were in place — the HTML language had been freely placed on the world’s first website (Nov 1992); the first web browser had been released (Mosaic v1.0, 22nd April 1993); the World Wide Web invention had been formally placed into the public domain (30th April 1993); and MIT had released the first “what you see is what you get” HTML editor (Saturday 1st May...

Oh yeah baby! It surely is. When I walk down the street or sit on the bus, folks are casually chatting about doing stuff on the mobile web. The combination of the launch of the iphone advertising campaign for O2 (which shows lots of commonly used websites rendered beautifully on the iphone) and the launch of facebook's mobile web version, it feels like the mobile web is taking off.However, not everyone is singing from the same hymnsheet. The much respected Russell Beattie has closed down Mowser, his reasons being that it wasn't making money and he no longer believed in the mobile web anyway. Or words to that effect. I read his blog post on the topic thoroughly and chatted with a few colleagues on the topic to get their reaction. They were both pretty bullish about the mobile web and felt...

Women 2.0 will have a booth at Web 2.0 Expo for the 2nd year in a row. Find us at in the non-profit pavilion exhibit space - we’d love to hear how you’re doing! While Women 2.0 Business Plan Competition submissions are being furiously perfected before the clock strikes midnight, Women 2.0 is giving away two FULL conference passes (no flights included... just the passes.) to Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, April 22-25. Web 2.0 hosts Web2Open unconference emphasizing discussion and participation around Web 2.0 topics. Register for a free badge for Web2Open using the the code “websf08opw” to get into Web2Open sessions, Expo Keynotes, Show Floor, Launch Pad, and Women’s Networking Evening on Thursday, April 24th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the Marriott’s View Lounge. If you attend...

The Semantic Web brings with it the opportunities for users to get smarter search results, and for site owners to get more targeted traffic as users find what they really want. But these benefits don't just magically appear. This article leads you through the aspects of both information architecture and general infrastructure you need in place to truly take advantage of this burgeoning opportunity. This article discusses what you need to know to make your Web site part of the Semantic Web. It starts with a discussion of the problems the Semantic Web tries to solve and then moves to the technologies involved, such as Resource Description Framework (RDF), Web Ontology Language (OWL), and SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL). You'll see how the Semantic Web is layered on top of...

[web] And the Web Moved On … Steve Bowbrick on Ted Nelson and Xanadu … ‘For Nelson, the whole messy ecosystem of the actual existing net and the web and those thousands of apps and millions of blogs and billions of users is just a big, ignorant snub to the totalising glory of Xanadu (which still isn’t finished). So, really, the whole thing was too sad. Xanadu and Nelson are perfect and unworldly. The web is imperfect and worldly. Xanadu can never ship because that would compromise its...

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