Catching Up With Web 2.0- September 6, 2006 Web 2.0 is a big buzzword these days and Wired has just began a review of the best and worst sites of Web 2.0. I thought this could be a good chance to visit some of these sites and see what I was missing. Here are my first impressions.Wired list is split into Champs and Stinkers.. let's start with Champs.Flickr - photo sharing site... I am not much into photos, so I'll give it a pass for now.Del.iciou.us - clever name, though it did take surprisingly long time to load. The idea of web-based...http://webbedup.blogspot.com/2006/09/catching-up-with-web-20.html Is Wireless For Real- September 2, 2006 Sometimes I get a feeling similar to how the main character in The Truman Show felt - that the world is an elaborate show and a lot of what's happening is staged. One example of this is the wireless technology. I am not sure if it's for real or its' users are just pretending that it works.For years I've heard about the glory and promise of wireless networks. Now and then I would succumb to temptation and give it another shot - always with decisive lack of success. I'll let you be the judge.Many.http://webbedup.blogspot.com/2006/09/is-wireless-for-real.html Me and Windows- September 1, 2006 I used to be an anti-Windows crusader. Back, when I came to States in 1990, I soon becameaware of how saturated with Windows are the computer magazines. In fact, one of the firstmagazine covers I remember seeing was from Byte magazine, titled: "Windows 3.0 is here - who needs OS2".Back then, I didn't yet know what OS2 was, but there sure seemed to be a lot of buzz about Windows.After few months without computer access, my parents bought a computer and I've met Windows first hand. I was not...http://webbedup.blogspot.com/2006/08/me-and-windows.html |