Category Archives: All things Web

The sense and nonsense of Twitter

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You probably know about Twitter, the so-called microblogging network. If you haven’t heard about it, don’t worry, you’re not missing something vital -I think. But I’m definately not sure, and that is basically what this post is about.

I joined Twitter on july 18 2008, so at the writing of this post, I’ve tweeted for 3 months. I joined because I wanted to try out the popular Twitterific app for my iPhone 3G. I started following a few people I know of, as I had no idea which ones of my friends were a member of Twitter. I followed the tweets made by people like Molly Holtzschlag, Dan Cederholm, Jeffrey Zeldman, Jeremy Keith, Veerle Pieters, Dan Rubin, Derek Featherstone. People who I have never met, but whose work I admire.

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informatie moet stromen: semantisch web

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NB: Dit artikel heb ik geschreven voor het professionaliseringsnetwerk IKKI, en is in zijn oorspronkelijke vorm terug te vinden op de website van IKKI.

IKKI is het zoveelse netwerk waar ik lid van ben, en waar ik een profiel heb staan.
Mijn werkervaring en andere CV informatie staat ook op monsterboard.nl, werk.nl, werkenbijdeoverheid.nl, linkedin.com en in de kennisbank op het werk. Mijn netwerk heb ik ook aangegeven bij hyves.nl, linkedin.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, last.fm, pownce.com… en vast ook wel op andere plekken.
Leuk, die sociale netwerken. Van de overheid (waar ik werk) verwachten -nee eisen- we dat onze gegevens eenmalig gevraagd worden, en meervoudig gebruikt worden. Waarom vullen we dan overal onze gegevens weer opnieuw in? Het zijn toch onze gegevens? En ik heb het toch al ergens ingevuld?
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The Giant Global Graph

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I posted this article at designed.nu, a weblog is about design. Design commentary usually focuses on the aesthetical and artistical side of what is considered design. But this particular post is about the original design of the internet, the world wide web and the giant global graph. -Huh? The what? Exactly.

Let me explain. When just about any blogger comments on the development of the internet and the world wide web, long discussions about web 2.0, web 3.0 and all kinds of concepts usually follow. And when that blogger considers to rename the world wide web into something as obscure as the Giant Global Graph, this normally is greeted with laughter at that person’s expense. Enter the latest weblog post of Sir Tim Berners-Lee. -Huh? Who? Exactly.

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Death of a legend: Netscape is no more

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On one of the final days of 2007 we are forced to say goodbye to an old legend. On December 29 2007, America Online decided to pull the plug on the Netscape project. For many people, including myself, Netscape was a big part of discovering the Internet in its early days. Netscape started in 1994 as a fork off the Mosaic Grandfather of all browsers (yes, I used that one too), and started the battle for the web by taking on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. AOL bought the brand name and the technology a while back, but the browser that had won the war had fought its last battle.
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