Web 2.0 Blog

Who Uses Social bookmarking?

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

You look at any blog post including this one, and you'll see various tags attached around the pages tell you to 'bookmark this', 'sphinn that' or 'make this post a favourite' and I'm sitting here thinking who actually uses all these widgets and why? Digg claims to have over 20 million users, which is quite incredible but who are these users? The idea is that when you bookmark a site or a post, it becomes saved in your profile on the social bookmarking site and most likely shared to other users using the same service. So by making this bookmark, you ... Read Article »

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Google XML Sitemap for Wordpress

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

If you're interested in optimizing your blog, you can make it much easier for search engines to crawl by adding a sitemap written on an XML page. The standard way of doing this involves creating a static XML page by taking a snapshot of your site at one time. However, the Google XML Sitemaps Generator for Wordpress will create an excellent quality sitemap for you which dynamically and automatically updates whenever new pages or posts are added to your blog. Take a look at mine: http://www.adammoss.co.uk/sitemap.xml It is downloadable as a simple plugin which just requires activation and submission from ... Read Article »

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Music 2.0

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

When MP3 came out, it revolutionized the way we listen to music. No longer did it need to be played from a physical medium like a tape or a disk, now music could be played from a storage device and the software available allowed you to start the song from any point by just dragging a pointer along a horizonal bar. Songs could be stored in their thousands and they could be arranged in any order. Mobile phone technology continues to evolve and are now integrated with MP3 functions. Nowadays, enjoying music has never been this good and hassle free. According ... 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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Feedreader and the future of RSS

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

I came across Feedreader the other day and was very impressed by the service it offered. It is basically what I expect the immediate future of RSS to offer in terms of Web 2.0/3.0 technologies. Instead of having the feed stored on a website, social bookmarking site or in your web browser, the content gets automatically delivered in an exceptionally user-friendly desktop new aggregator. I was staggered with how easy it was to use and how useful it is to have the web delivered to you in the most direct of circumstances. Furthermore, the application is free and features two more ... Read Article »

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