Edge Aggregators

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

Pete Cashmore has an article titled - Here Come the Edge Aggregators - that describes four new services that are aggregating RSS feeds in new ways.  Services like Edgio and iNod scan RSS feeds looking for posts that are tagged with certian tags.  In the case of Edgio the tag being aggregated is “listing” with the result of the aggregation being classified ads!

Web 2.0 Blog

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Dion Hinchcliffe has an excellent Web 2.0 blog that I have added to my daily reading list. His coverage of new web 2.0 services, trends and techniques are a worthy read for any web developer.

Online Sharable Collaborative Lists

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Listible! is a new “Web 2.0″ application that let’s you create sharable lists or collections of items. Within each list, visitors can add their own items or vote for items that are already on the list. The lists are ordered by the popularity of each item in the list. To see how it works check out the Best Firefox Extensions for Power Users or Best Online Calendars.

Great Web 2.0 Developers’ Firefox Extension

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

This has got to be one of the greatest Firefox Extensions aimed at the Web 2.0 developer. FireBug is a docking pane that essentially replaces the Firefox DOM Inspector, JavaScript Console and HTTPRequest Sniffer all in one fell swoop.  The pane docks against the document loaded into the current tab or window and shows information only for that page.  The best part is that the DOM inspector included with this tool is far simpler and more powerful than the one installed with Firefox.  Go get this one now!

Using the Prototype JavaScript Library

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Prototype is am amazing, well thought and well written piece of standards-compliant JavaScript code takes a lot of the burden associated with creating rich, highly interactive web pages that characterize the Web 2.0 off your back. Unfortunately, until recently there was a lack of documentation for this great library, meaning that if you wanted to use it, you needed to really hack it to make it work. Now, the makers of the library have made Using prototype.js documentation available to the general public.

Searching for a Fresher Taste

Friday, December 16th, 2005

Searching for a fresher taste offers brilliant insight on the importance of Yahoo!s recent purchase of del.icio.us and it’s impact on the future of search and social networks.

Museum of Modern Betas

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Having trouble keeping up with all the Web 2.0 betas that seem to be announced on a daily basis? The Museum of Modern Betas will help you keep track of new web products. To date the site lists over 590 web hopefuls!

What Puts the 2 in Web 2.0

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

Adaptive path has published (in PDF format) a document that examines the attributes that Web 2.0 services share. What Puts the 2 in Web 2.0 may help identify what attributes that have really made a difference.

Update : The article that accompanies this PDF can be found here.

I Can’t Believe It’s AJAX!

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Thomas Fuchs of script.aculo.us has just issued a sneak peak of his upcoming web application called fluxiom which looks like it will be an application that allows you to capture, manage, access and deliver content. Check out the video link from the front page, where a slick quicktime presentation flashes screenshots and demos at you. From the video it looks like they are doing some very cool thing with JavaScript and UI design, in fact it looks very much like an app you would expect from Apple!

Weekend Reading - How to Fund a Startup

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

Paul Graham has added to his great collection essays with a new one titled - How to Fund a Startup.