When I was searching for a plain and simple gallery script a while back, I stumbled upon minishowcase, a beautiful little gallery script, written in php with Lightboxfor the required eye-candy....
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by S.M. Schrama on December 29, 2006
Years ago we chatted using different programs, trying to figure out a way of connecting all the different chat networks together, as some people were on AOL, others on ICQ and so on. Software was...
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by S.M. Schrama on December 28, 2006
In the ongoing soap opera around mp3 download site AllofMp3, a number of record labels *from the US* have filed a lawsuit against the site. I don't understand why this website has to die, but...
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I like fun. I like companies with a sense of humor. I like Google. Why ? They've made a huge number of very useful applications, and they have a sense of humor. They've used their earth...
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Social networks are a typical sign of today's Web. People create networks around all kinds of subjects. One I did not spot until now is comic books. There might be social networks out there around...
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by S.M. Schrama on December 22, 2006
When Japanase Sun-eployee Hideya Kawahara showed a software package he created to his collegues a couple of years ago, he could not foresee that his creation would become a 3d window manager that sets...
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by S.M. Schrama on December 21, 2006
Last month I wrote about the key features in Web 2.0 sites and applications. I discussed the importance of the Look and Feel of webbased software and how this is key to the Web 2.0 experience. Today I...
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Earlier this year Jeteye invented the Jetpak, an alternative way of organizing links, images and what not. The Jetpaks were viewable in a browser, but only editable using an extension for your...
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by S.M. Schrama on December 20, 2006
. Looking back at the Web in 2006 and combining this with current developments, they've come up with a couple of interesting points: RSS will go mainstream in a big way Although I like to say it...
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Lots of software sites dominate our Web2.0 world. Some of them good, others better. And some of them innovative. The biggest drawback of all of these packages is the fact they're seperate. Zcubes...
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Some time ago the ugly truth about digg became public knowledge. it was taken seriously, and Digg's rules were adapted. But for a lot of people, digg has become a thing of the past. But Digg did...
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by S.M. Schrama on December 15, 2006
, which isn't exactly on the same subject, but the last paragraph caught my attention :Sync is something to watch in '07. And that's exactly what I concluded. Working online is nice, but...
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by S.M. Schrama on December 15, 2006
Working online is one of the blessings of our time. it enables us to work from virtually anywhere in the world, provide an internet connection is available. But what happens when one or more of the...
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Skype has revolutionized the way we make phone calls and how much we pay for it. Millions of people have used Skype and still use it today, especially when you have relatives in other countries....
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by S.M. Schrama on December 14, 2006
Google's main product, the search engine, is a versatile tool. Most of you will probably only use Google's search facilities by keying in a couple of words and use the resulted list. But...
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Wiki's have been one of the first signs of what we know as Web 2.0 right now. As Web 2.0 is all about sharing and collaboration, Wiki's were far ahead of time. The main *winning* features of...
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One of the great things that has come out of the internet and especially the development in Web 2.0 software is working on the web. What's working on the web ? Simple. You're into some kind of...
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by S.M. Schrama on December 08, 2006
argues that if Youtube will continue to become more and more commercial, user generated video material will need a new home. She's right of course, although the user generated video housing...
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Yahoo!News allows you and me to add news to the site by blogging. It seems though that Yahoo has noy understood anything about the blogging business (yes, I said business). Yahoo wants us to blog at...
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by S.M. Schrama on December 06, 2006
A lot of websites report on the apparent moves within the directors' SEATS of Yahoo!. It seems there are some seats that have become vacant in higher levels (tie-wearing non-techies) and some new...
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Although I am not a big fan of Microsoft's Office products, I do know and accept it's widely used around the globe and should therefore not be forgotten. Office products by Zoho are products I...
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As I am traveling for a couple of days and will probably not have much time to post, I send you off into the weekend with remarkable news. Most of the times there's news about Google, it's...
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by S.M. Schrama on December 01, 2006
My eye fel on a short review of JS-KIT, something more for code-minded people than for feedreaders. So what is it ? It's one line of code that makes threaded comments possible in any web site. How...
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