"I think the most interesting aspects of Web 2.0 are new tools that explore the continuum between the personal and the social, and tools that are endowed with a certain flexibility and modularity which enables collaborative remixability"

"The hard work that RSS does allows us to keep up with many more Web sites in much less time. But it also allows us to share information that we weren’t sharing before, allowing others to remix our content in new, useful ways."

The Web of documents has morphed into a Web of data. We are no longer just looking to the same old sources for information. Now we’re looking to a new set of tools to aggregate and remix microcontent in new and useful ways.

In which form does the network data world manifest itself in our everyday life? What comes back from cyberspace into physical space? How do digital innovations influence our everyday actions?

a novel treemap data visualization approach that uses Voronoi tesselations

The artwork is an interactive map of more than 33,000 words. Each word has been assigned a color based on the average color of images found by a search engine. The words are then grouped by meaning. The resulting patterns form an atlas of our lexicon.

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.

Blogjects - a neologism Julian Bleecker came up with for objects that blog - exemplify the soon-to-come 'Internet of Things', i.e. a network of tangible, mobile, chatty things enabled by the miniaturization, the ubiquity of consumer electronics and a perv

The notion is that the Internet is becoming less of a place we "go to" and more of a layer atop our entire everyday reality. As a result, the term "cyberspace," coined by William Gibson in 1984, just doesn't seem relevant anymore.

An enhanced OpenGL renderer for Unreal Tournament (works also on Deus Ex 1)

@echo off
setlocal
set PATHTOFIXES=E:\hotfix (chemin du répertoire contenant les correctifs)
%PATHTOFIXES%\Q123456_Wxp_sp2_x86.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\Q123321_Wxp_sp2_x86.exe /Z /Q
%PATHTOFIXES%\Q123789_Wxp_sp2_x86.exe /Z /Q

Windows Update permet à Windows de se mettre automatiquement à jour en téléchargeant et installant divers correctifs. Cette astuce vous permettra de télécharger ces mises à jour sur votre disque dur, l'intérêt étant d'avoir à disposition locale

OMG!

"Trying to find the meaning of the names, then, leads one into a mess of synonyms into obfuscation, phonetic change, and Sean Booth and Rob Brown's personal in-jokes. If there's no meaning, there's certainly a lot of fragments thereof and false leads."

In the past months,several annotation tools appeared, almost all of them based on plug-in technology. The biggest players are Google and Yahoo, promising smaller start-up services are Diigo, Wikalong and Stickis.

"Throughout the last year I found the idea of social annotations quite appealing and useful...."

Monthy 3Digest is the project of iXBT.com and Digit-Life.com dedicated to informing you about the performance of a large number of graphics cards under Windows XP.

"Neat! I didn't know this could exist: Bettie Page comics. The site has five scans of covers with a very good resolution. These comics were realeased by Dark Horse comics in the 90's,but at the Dark Horses' site you are going to find another two publicati

MyStickies.com allows you to add post-it notes to any web page. To do so, you need to sign-up for an account and install the Firefox browser extension.

via w111ja

on geobloggers

about the key/value tags in tagging systems

Third Voice was WebAnnotation software: a way to "post sticky notes" with your comments on any site on the Web. Others in your group, or everyone using the Third Voice product could see them.

LLuna2 lets you meet other people on web pages... with animated avatars, video, bubble chat, private chat, and personal profiles through the Jabber protocol.

Chat live with other people who are looking at the same website as you!

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