Category Archives: web2.0

Flair

Posted on April 27, 2007 by peter

In the Netherlands ‘Flair’ is a magazine read by teenage girls, containing tips for teenage girls. In Sun’s dictionary it will be: A self-supporting web programming kernel that’s all written in JavaScript Couldn’t find much about it, but they seem … Continue reading →

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Problems with Google personalized homepage

Posted on April 26, 2007 by peter

Today Google managed to lose all my bookmarks and most of the RSS feeds I configured on my personalized homepage. Since there is now way to backup your homepage this means they’re just lost now. I’m not the only one … Continue reading →

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Twitter

Posted on April 22, 2007 by peter

As always I’m a bit behind in actually using all this greate web 2.0 stuff. Most of my colleagues at the VPRO have been using Twitter for a while now, but I was still a bit skeptical. Erwin has a … Continue reading →

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Apollo

Posted on March 19, 2007 by peter

I came across this demonstration video of Adobe’s new crossplatform runtime: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/videos/apollo_demo07/index.html Most of the stuff has been possible using Java Webstart for a couple of years now, but somehow I’ve got the feeling the people at Adobe are so … Continue reading →

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Yahoo pipes… programming made ‘easy’?

Posted on February 11, 2007 by peter

Occasionally when some non-programmer sees program builders like code generating UML tools or, in this case Yahoo’s new pipes service, they start making jokes about how developers are going to unnecessary in the future. Normally I would just forget about … Continue reading →

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Dutch web 2.0 awards

Posted on January 27, 2007 by peter

Yesterday the 3voor12 website, architected by yours truly, won the second price in the category ‘BEST DUTCH APP’ at the Dutch web 2.0 awards. Erwin Blom (the man with the plan) went there to collect the price. Congratulations! Hopefully the … Continue reading →

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