Web 2.0 Blog

Profy - The casual all-in-one

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I came across Profy today and it really impressed me. It claims to be an 'all-in-one' blogging platform, a haven for bloggers if you like, where a combination of blog posting, social networking and feed reading is combined into one easy-to-use platform. Having watched the demo, it certainly does look easy to use and this leads on from my previous post about who uses social bookmarking. My concerns of casual Internet users being able to use such features were founded on lack of purpose to uses them and lack of mass documentation describing what they are and how to use ... Read Article »

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ScribbleLive & Exclusive

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

One of the drawbacks of the current blogging platform is the fact that the content displayed on the page is static - it won't update until you tell it to, by revisiting the page or refreshing the browser. Static content is also a feature of discussion boards and forums which is why it can be difficult to have flowing conversations, especially when posts are made simultaneously. ScribbleLive rewrites the ules of this publishing platform by offering its users the ability to view and manipulate live data over a network. ScribbleLive was given special recognition at Canada's Mesh Conference of the latest ... Read Article »

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Italki - Learning languages with Web 2.0

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

I wanted to let you know about a new version of italki.com which was just relaunched.  italki.com is a language learning social network, and openeducation website. The premise is very good as users from all of the world collaborate together to help each other learn languages. It also utilizes the mashup methodology very well by integrating Facebook profiles into its system, allowing you to share files & resources and meet up with other Facebook users to form groups. With the new version, users can now collaborate on creating free language learning textbooks (in addition to finding language partners, having their foreign ... Read Article »

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