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Ravelry is a new social networking site for knitters, currently in beta. Most of my readers are probably going “huh?” at this point, and the rest, I hope, are going “ooh!” See, up front it [...]
I’ve been using Dopplr for a while now, and recently got an invitation code for TripIt. Both are web 2.0 social networking websites for travellers, and a lot of people have been talking about them in relation to each other, so I thought I’d post a quick review of both of them.
Dopplr
Dopplr is [...]
One of the things I’ve been doing, in my current state of unemployment, is pondering the world of Perl blogs.
A month or so back, I happened to google for perl blogs and found almost nothing of use on the front page. Then I googled ruby blogs and found that most of the first [...]
I have discovered something more crack-like than Wikipedia.
Freebase is a collection of user-contributed and -edited data about everything. Like Wikipedia, you can put just about anything in there. Unlike Wikipedia, you don’t just provide text, but can provide structured data. For instance, for a topic of type “person”, there are fields [...]
I’ve been looking for a simple, lightweight wiki application for my website since my recent redesign. Here’s what I wanted:
quick, no-nonsense install and configuration easily restrict editing access (me, and perhaps a small handful of friends) clean interface and pleasant markup that doesn’t make me want to scream (TWiki, I’m looking at you!) easily themeable to [...]
Nestoria announces the winners of their API hacking contest. I really love the secondhand clothes mashup: find Oxfam shops in pricey neighbourhoods, where there are likely to be lots of designer clothes donated.
Three random cool things I’ve discovered on US real estate sites:
Zillow have a property guide wiki on their site, which has [...]
A couple of weeks ago my Dad and I were on our way to visit my Grandma, who’s moved into a retirement village down at Torquay. As we were driving through Geelong, I thought I’d see whether Dad had caught any of the buzz about this web2.0 thing all the kids seem to [...]
Via London Perl Mongers (I seem to get lots of cool stuff from them), Nestoria are offering GPSs as prizes at Yahoo Hack Day for hackers who write stuff using Nestoria’s API. Viva la Web2.0!
Via O’Reilly Radar, Trulia have just released Trulia Hindsight which lets you watch the growth of US cities over [...]
I just can’t stop.
We’ve got one wiki page called “NewDeveloperInduction”, and on the day a new hire starts, they quickly learn that that page contains — or links to — all the basic information they’re going to need to know in their first week or two. We also have a policy [...]
In followup to Lifehack’s 5 uses for a wiki at work, via Social Media in Australia, here are another five:
Funny this wasn’t in the original five, but perhaps it’s just too obvious. Most places I’ve worked, the wiki’s been installed by the techies and has taken off in that group first. [...]
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