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January 2007 - Posts

• My Web 2.0 faves

  Howard asked me today what my top 10 Web 2.0 apps were, and why they were killer. A good question. Here they are anyway. Web 2.0 site Killer feature (primary reason: UGC, RIA) Digg.com UGC . Blows Slashdot away for interesting geek news by democratizing Read More... Posted 24 January 2007 19:37 by Julian.RHarris | 1 Comments Filed under: web 2.0

• DabbleDB review -- Web 2.0 RIA spreadsheet / database innovation

  The spreadsheet market has been stagnant for a long, long time. Excel at its core has been fundamentally the same for the last 10 years. OpenOffice's spreadsheet tool just blindly copied it, and Google Sheets is just a dumbed down, otherwise uninteresting Read More... Posted 05 January 2007 23:33 by Julian.RHarris | 1 Comments Filed under: web 2.0, ria, user experience, web office

• Web 2.0: desktop applications on the web

  For a lot of people, Web 2.0 is a buzzword, i.e. used to "impress people with the pretence of knowledge" [Wikipedia]. There are snake oil salesmen in every bazaar, but there really is a wow factor at the core of Web 2.0 -- Web 2.0 is what I Read More... Posted 03 January 2007 22:00 by Julian.RHarris | 0 Comments Filed under: web 2.0, ria, user experience