Category: Web

  • Firefox 3.0b4 review

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    Tom Raftery
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    Firefox 3.0b4 was released overnight and it is a significant improvement over the already superb 3.0b3! The browser space is really improving of late, what with the release of the surprisingly good Internet Explorer 8 beta, the nightly Webkit releases, and now Firefox 3.0b4. I ran Firefox 3.0b4 through the Sunspider browser speed test and…

  • Zinadoo enables easy mobile site creation

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    Tom Raftery
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    Zinadoo.com is an online website creation tool specialising in creating websites for mobile devices! When you register with Zinadoo, you are setup with a free zinadoo.mobi subdomain. .mobi is the top level domain created specially for mobile devices. The timing of this is very coincidental as I did an interview with Neil Edwards, CEO of…

  • Your top Web 2.0 apps?

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    Tom Raftery
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    If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…

  • Webaroo – selling the Internet?

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    A company called Webaroo are selling copies of the Internet on a hard drive according to Networkworld– why? Well, they say, it will be handy for people who don’t have access to an Internet connection. As Webaroo president Brad Husick explains: “Let’s say the HTML Web is 10 billion pages — it’s actually a little…

  • Online Ajax Word Processors compared

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have written recently about Web 2.0, and Ajax applications – well another one has appeared today, WriteBoard. Writeboard is an Ajax driven online Word Processor – similar to Writely – one of the other Ajax applications I mentioned last week. There are a couple of differences and similarities between Writely and Writeboard which are…

  • Subscribe button

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    Tom Raftery
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    I posted yesterday about an RSS event I am organising and in the comments for that post I mentioned Dave Winer’s suggestion that we should use a “Subscribe” button on our blogs instead of “RSS” or “XML” FrankP read that comment and decided to run with that suggestion – Frank created a cool little white…

  • What exactly is Web 2.0

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    Tom Raftery
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    Web 2.0 is a term which is being used more and more these days but what exactly is it? It seems to be kinda like beauty, in that it is “in the eye of the beholder” – i.e. its definition depends on who you ask. Obviously it refers to some kind of next version of…