j.ere.my’s perspective on life, death and social technology
The brilliant Alex Hillman of Independents Hall has again posted a little indy-spiration for all of those who are working on launching into a new endeavor.
Check out his blog post:
Good work again, Alex, and timely as ever.
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Another good article I found tonight.. If you’re not totally sure what the whole Web 2.0 movement is all about, check out this article:
42 things about Web 2.0 in 2008
This is actually part 2 of a 3 part series.
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As I met with a group of friends several months ago, something interesting came up. One of these friends was my age and just out of college, the other two are a bit older. We had come together to discuss how we might cooperate in providing communications services together to various clients.
In preparation for the meeting, we all outlined what skills and knowledge we would bring to the table.
Interestingly enough, though our skill sets varied, it seemed that many of the same concepts were present.
The key difference, as Richard pointed out, was how we marketed ourselves in our own self-descriptions.
It seems that college students and recent graduates today have a high aptitude for branding themselves (maybe for branding in general). We like to plant our own .com and build a look and style that adequately describes ourselves. Very interesting indeed.
Branding is key. But how will all of these personified brands play out in the future? How will we integrate into a corporate world, yet maintain our own personal and branded identities? How will we work together without competing?
This is yet to be seen for me, at least. But I think the independent and small-biz web development culture is by far the most advanced in this area. As I’m just busting (or re-busting) into the scene of web development, I’m enamored by the community I’ve walked into.
Of course, I must give kudos to Alex Hillman, for his coworking evangelism. He’s drawn me in, and inspired me to participate in a new community of professionals who are working independently, yet together.
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what happens when you have a great idea and somebody else comes up with the same idea at approximately the same time? frustrating..
so today, in an ironic feat of web-searchification, while working on my very own foto:blip, i discovered a lovely little app that does nearly the same thing as foto:blip. note, nearly.
clearly i’ve been beaten to the punch in providing a way to use photos instead of words to share the play by play of your life.
so what to do now? beat them with sticks!
the key differentiation that i see right now is that TwitPic (what a silly name) is a bolt-on application. it connects with the Twitter API and (sortof) extends the functionality of Twitter. not a bad idea at all. Twitter has a large and growing userbase. but, i believe that what is really needed to take the next step with microbloggery is to have a completely new application which is built from the ground up to work with images. while two Twitter add-on clients support TwitPic, allowing the posted photo to be viewed directly in the client, other venues such as the Twitter web site and the all-important Twitter Facebook application merely show a link to your photo posted via TwitPic. degrades nicely for those clients, but how will it bode for the visually-inclined user? not so well.
foto:blip has, from the very beginning, been designed to use photos as the users’ primary means of communication. to emphasize that point, photo captions are limited to a short 50 characters. we want users to communicate with their images. to do this, it is a necessity that every viewer can see the posted images alongside the caption.
i’ll be having a closer look at TwitPic shortly as I continue working on foto:blip. perhaps it will inspire me even more.
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I’m not really sure how I got there, but I did. Somehow, once again, I ended up at a random Wikipedia page. This time, I feel compelled to share.
Do you remember the <blink> tag from the olden days of the Internet? Surely you do if you’ve been using computers for any length of time.
Anyway, here’s a Wikipedia article about just that.
For summary’s sake, the article quotes the tag’s creator as saying the <blink> tag is, “The worst thing I’ve ever done for the Internet.”
Let’s take this nostalgic moment to also remember our also dearly beloved and departed friend, the <marquee> tag.
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Funny blog post I came across…
9 Signs You Shouldn’t Hire THAT Web Guy
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