Loading ...Welcome to my web site/blog. If you’d like to find out a little bit more about me, please head on over to the ‘About’ section.
Building this site has given me both a platform for looking at all things in Web technology, and an opportunity to start CSS based design and customising CMS’s (which in this case is the ever-popular open-source blogging platform, WordPress). It still needs a few fixes, but they should be completed shortly.
The home page title pretty much sums up the focus, but here’s a quick look at each topic, including a link to an article that epitomises the respective topic;
Web 2.0. My definition is a little bit different from the rest - ‘the point at which on-line profiles were no longer embarrassing.’ Tim O’Reilly knows it best- What Is Web 2.0?
Enterprise 2.0. The latest wave of web services, but applied to the enterprise. Andrew McAffee coined this one-
What we talk about when we talk about Enterprise 2.0
Mobile Web. Internet, un-hindered, on a mobile device, with an interface that enables everything you can do on a desktop/laptop. This one is a tipping point; just think of all the questions that you hear out & about that could be answered with a Google search, if only it wasn’t so difficult to do- Left alone with your cell phone, you can still socialize
Social Networking Technology. Probably the most significant of all the Web 2.0 entities. Research suggests a person can only maintain 150 meaningful social connections, not that it’s slowing the number of social network start-ups-
Me.dium Courts Controversy With Extreme Social Networking, Launched At DEMO
Audio / Visual / Interactive. Will we always use the mouse/keyboard combo, or will better interfaces provide new forms of interaction with the Web? This one has received a lot of attention; Jeff Han on TED Talks
Please feel free to get in touch via email, phone, Skype, social network, or even post (if you can find my address on the net) if you’d like to provide some feedback.
Neil Cauldwell
