Monthly Webgeist

Web related thoughts or coolness and sparkly web things of the month. There are so many new developments, cool tools or standards released, big moves or decisions made in the world of web over time. These items are a sort of summary of things that stand out for me each month.

2007

December

• %Perl5-10Released http://perlbuzz.com/2007/12/what-people-are-saying-about-perl-510.html%

November

• Google Gears
• Firefox3Beta
• Google Announces Android Mobile OS

October

• Opening The Social Graph
• Amazon Launches DRM Free Music Download Service
• Google Buys Jaiku

September 2007

• NZ Anti Spam Legislation
• XML Replaced By JSON
• Should Every App Be A Platform
• Mobile Social Networks
• Microsoft Open XML Failed ISO Bid

August 2007

• Iphone The Usability Factor
• Microsoft Buyout Of Aquantive
• Scratch Programming Language For Kids
• TV Is Social Already
• Eric Schmidt Defines Web 3

July 2007

• Go PHP 5
• Kiwis Take To Facebook
• Lastfm Partners With Sony
• Is Blogging Dead
• Journalisms Bright Future
• Google Acquires Grand Central

June 2007

• Open ID
• Tivo Coming To New Zealand
• Internet Radio Goes Silent
• Moonlight Beaming Silverlight To Linux
• Google Street View

May 2007

• Firefox 2 Now Reccomended
• Are Search Engine Rankings Dead
• Enterprise RSS
• Java FX
• Freeview Digital Tv Launches In New Zealand

April 2007

• Google Buys Doubleclick
• Yahoo Pipes
• Microsoft Silverlight
• Web 2 Participation Remains Weak
• Routers In Space

March 2007

• Google Alerts and Google Reader
• The Attention Economy
• Open Ajax Alliance

February 2007

• Firefox Offline Apps
• Perl Critic
• Amazon Web Services

January 2007

• Kiwi Foo
• Zoho Notebook
• Twitter
• http://www.slide.com/main/emsu

2006

November 2006

• My Blog Log
• Paste Bin
• Stikkit
• Timeline

October 2006

• Zotero
• Firefox 2
• JSON
• Reuters Virtual News Bureau

September 2006

• Wikimapia
• Podcasts Of University Lectures
• SGML Turns 20
• Smartpox Bar Codes For The Web

August 2006

• Search Bots
• Chiba - Java + XForms
• Blackboard Awarded Elearning Patent
• Xforms And AJAX
• Alexa Traffic Comparisons
• Flickr Map

July 2006

• GPL 3
• Wired News Consider User Generated Content
• Myspace Most Trafficked US Site
• Microsoft Support For ODF

June 2006

• Microsoft Unveils Code Sharing Site
• Net Neutrality
• Opera Debuts Ver 9
• Wikipedia Revises Edit Policy

May 2006

• Semantic Web Ready For Mainstream
• Sun To Open Source Java
• Television 2
• Open Document Format ISO Approval
• NZ Govt Calls For Local Loop Unbundling

older

• Google Maps Wall
• Move Mydata
• Attention Trust
• Imagination At Work - flash based drawing tool
• Pro FX - flash based WYSIWYG site builder
• rendr - Rapid HTML prototyping tool
• Yellow Life - Yellowpages life manager
• Websites As Graphs - kinda spooky how organic this can be
• Taglines - tag visualization from Yahoo! research
• Prototype - AJAX and effects with scriptaculous.js

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