Posted by Tommy on 24 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Web Development
I have moved my website to a new (and hopefully more reliable) host….Wordpress have a great product here, which made migrating content simples (like a meerkat!)
I have also taken the opportunity to re-do the theme. I love my coffee and most people will be reading while drinking the stuff, so there is some logic!
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Posted by Tommy on 17 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: Web Development
I have blogged previously about my dislike for the term Web 2.0 so you’ll have to forgive my hypocrisy for using a similar term for this post.
If I dislike these terms why am I using them? Well, if you get past all the hype you are left with terminology which is useful in driving debate and quantifying where the web is and where the web is going in the future. Most of the people who I am writing this post for will know instantly what I mean when I say web 2.0 and can probably see where I’m going when I use the term web 3.0.
Web 2.0 is all about social networking, user generated content, collaboration and mashups, or alternatively to quote Tim Bernes-Lee (Inventor of the web) a “piece of jargon”. Web 2.0 is a transfer of power to the end user – you have more control over what content you see, how you see it, who you share it with and how you can manipulate it.
So where does web 3.0 take us? Well there seems to be a couple of strands of thought for this, they are: the immersive web and the semantic web.
The immersive web will allow you to enter a multi dimensional environment, virtual words. The semantic web will join up the infinite pieces of information available and draw connections between them. Natural language search is one possible application, and is already being developed at powerset.com.
The next challenge then is to think of more useful applications, beyond that of the marketers and advertisers.
However, I’m still struggling to see the complete usefulness of Web 2.0, how many people actually know how to customise Firefox or what RSS stands for, let alone how to use it? The future of anything is in its longevity, remember friends reunited? Apparently 80% of people on Twitter are sheep, merely following not posting, how long before the 20% become tired? Of course, I hasten to add that I’m still a user of both Facebook and twitter and of course blog reasonably regularly.
Web 3.0! Maybe we’ve still got a bit of way to go on Web 2.0 and were trying to run before we can walk.
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Posted by Tommy on 23 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Humor, Web Development
Whilst messing about with my mother’s business website I stumbled upon a very old incarnation of my first personal site. Enjoy, though the design is classic-retro (but seems to hold together well in newer browsers) and obviously some of the links are now broken!
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Posted by Tommy on 03 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: The World
I’ve been intending to write a post about the highlights of our trip to Africa but haven’t got round to it yet. In the mean-time here are a couple of videos, which captured two of the many highlights:
A herd of Elephants grazing, drinking and washing at a waterhole in Namibia.
A couple of rhinos drinking from a Namibian waterhole at night.
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