First things first. Shindig is an Apache incubator project that serves as an OpenSocial Container and…I’m already falling asleep. Too boring. I’m way behind the curve on all things “social networking” but I have an idea for an app that may scratch an itch I have, and it just happens that some of this social Read more
Category Archives: Web 2.0
MSSU Follow Up
On Thursday, October 25th, I spoke to the CIS club at Missouri Southern State University. The presentation won’t win any awards (no presentation of mine ever will.) I put the Powerpoint up on SlideShare. I promised the students and professors in attendance that I would follow up with a post on my blog with links Read more
Google Finds Search
It always seemed odd to me that Google Reader never had search functionality. I mean, what is the one feature you’d expect a Google app to have built-in from the start? Apparently not search. I’m a little slow, haven’t been in Google Reader much lately and completely missed the new search bar at the top Read more
Web 2.0 is Agile…Sort of
Scott Rosenberg makes an interesting observation about Web 2.0 software. Scott wrote the book Dreaming in Code, which gives a look into the making of the open source software project Chandler. One of the key points Scott makes in his book is that software is hard. One of the most common arguments against this point Read more
Twitter API Not Exactly Working Right Now
I installed the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress on my blog here earlier in the week. I noticed on Thursday night that it stopped working. I did a little troubleshooting on it and found that the call to the authenticated Twitter API URLs were giving back a 301 response instead of a 200. Previously, when Read more
I Don’t Get Facebook
I’m not hip. I don’t get Facebook. I understand the concept but I don’t get the hype around it. OK, it’s a platform. But, maybe I’m missing something. The whole point of the Facebook platform seems to be about locking you into Facebook. Another well hyped web app is Twitter. While I don’t use Twitter Read more