Tag: web 3.0

HTML5

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I usually get significantly more tech curious on the weekends or when I’m sick (basically any time when I’m spending lots of time at my computer). I’ve been hearing a lot lately about HTML5, the new web standard, especially about the new things that web designers will be able to do with multimedia and interactive elements on web pages without having to use plugins like Silverlight or Flash.

There’s a few cool demonstrations of this new capability here at http://html5demos.com/ Because of the standard, the only web browsers supported are Google Chrome and Apple Safari.

Google Wave “killer app”

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I don’t want to come down too hard on Google Wave. It’s in alpha release, and the biggest problem with it is that people don’t have accounts. Nevertheless, I haven’t really been checking it because after a flurry of sandbox-like posts, there wasn’t much activity.

I decided to start a Wave with my LOST watching buddies, all of whom are all around the country, and it’s been working out so far. My plan is to set up a wave for every episode this season. My friends on the East coast can use it like a chat room while watching it live, and I can check it after I watch the episode and participate in the post-mortem, even if nobody is still online.

Google Wave "killer app"

Matthew EilarLeave a comment

I don’t want to come down too hard on Google Wave. It’s in alpha release, and the biggest problem with it is that people don’t have accounts. Nevertheless, I haven’t really been checking it because after a flurry of sandbox-like posts, there wasn’t much activity.
I decided to start a Wave with my LOST watching buddies, all of whom are all around the country, and it’s been working out so far. My plan is to set up a wave for every episode this season. My friends on the East coast can use it like a chat room while watching it live, and I can check it after I watch the episode and participate in the post-mortem, even if nobody is still online.

Google Wave "killer app"

Matthew EilarLeave a comment

I don’t want to come down too hard on Google Wave. It’s in alpha release, and the biggest problem with it is that people don’t have accounts. Nevertheless, I haven’t really been checking it because after a flurry of sandbox-like posts, there wasn’t much activity.
I decided to start a Wave with my LOST watching buddies, all of whom are all around the country, and it’s been working out so far. My plan is to set up a wave for every episode this season. My friends on the East coast can use it like a chat room while watching it live, and I can check it after I watch the episode and participate in the post-mortem, even if nobody is still online.