• Web2.0 – extended mindcloudmap on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  I stumbed across this via http://atariboy.wordpress.com/2006/02/12/all-the-web20-you-could-want/
  At first I was thinking – so what… its a static image on Flickr with a bunch of 2.0 terms and buzzwords… but then… as you mouseover, the magic appears… using Flickr’s ‘notes’ function, lots of people have added hyperlinks to the terms in the cloud, creating a rich networked map to an enormous range of key sites and readings associated with Web 2.0
  (tags: flickr web2.0 SocialNetworks participation)
• Aperto AG
  A digital communications agency in Berlin.Clients include Siemens and Volkswagen
  (tags: agency berlin germany)
• Go Flock Yourself > Web 2.0 retards need to read more Tufte
  rails against ‘clouds’ (eg. Tag Clouds) as a currently popular visual device, compares to pie charts in terms of lack of clarity.
  (tags: cloud design interfacedesign web2.0)
• MetaWrap Time Converter, Build 3
  More clever code from James, but this time something even I can play with :) The Time Convertor allows you to easily see what time it is in any city of the world (and includes links to Google Maps. v clever James). Particularly sexy is the way that you can see whether or not it is daylight in any given city (celestial mechanics, I think James said was behind it). The cities also link to their Google Map equivalent. Very nice. I’ve asked James if he can do me one where I can see where ‘business hours’ are still in play to help organise global phone conferences :)
  (tags: application mashup time global)

• Emily Chang – The Agile Web Design Manifesto, An Introduction
  I’m interested in the idea of an Agile Development approach. This article sets out some ‘core principles’ right at the end. This is related to the ongoing dialogue on the challenges associated with designing for Ajax.
  (tags: agiledesign agile design interactiondesign interfacedesign web2.0 ajax)
• Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
  First published February 8, 2003. So, there you go. All though AList bashing is issue du jour, we’ve been carrying on about it for years and years. Just goes to show, you can’t keep a good issue down. (Or, these AListers may be rolling their eyes at us with good reason)
  (tags: media theory socialSoftware sociology longtail blogging)
• UPA – The Usability Professionals’ Association
  (tags: usability professionalassociations)

ok. So, by every standard possible, I’m such a junior-blogger. I think I’m heading into week three, or something like that, and I’ve been pretty busy at work, which has kept a handle on my blog reading as well as posting. Its been impossible to miss the bruhaha going on as the A-Listers cop a serve from those who they’ve apparently been keeping outside the gates of blogging fame and glory (via Tech.Memeorandum, yep, still loving it).

There are a lot of different takes you can have on this situation, and I have a couple… but the more I read it the more everyone is starting to remind me of a bunch of highschool kids jostling for social superiority. Trying to work out who is in the cool gang, how to get there if you’re not, why another gang is the next cool gang, or an alternate cool gang at least, how we should be nice to the kids who aren’t in the cool gang, or the next coolest gang, or the one after that.

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better late than never I came across this image on BoingBoing

it’s a mosaic of web 1.0 logos, in response to the recent popular mosaic of web 2.0 logos posted to Flickr and much discussed.

Now, here’s the question… is it just me or do these web 1.0 button mosaic remind you a lot of the banners we’re seeing on 3G mobile these days? (qualification: I can only speak for Australian 3G services just now).

Anyone?

Technorati Tags: mobile, 3G

Yep, you can tell by today’s link that, although its Sunday, its been a working day for me.

• Taking a business-centric approach to portals
  by James Robertson. I haven’t had a good read of this yet, but the discussion around the difference between the portal as a concept and the portal as a technical solution seemed interesting.
  (tags: portal informationarchitecture)