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web 2.0

Web Oriented Architecture – a battle with the dark side?

February 1, 2011

This is a talk i gave to the IET 2009. You need to view the full post to see the slides. Web Oriented Architecture – a battle with the dark side? View more presentations from markedgington.

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Is Social Networking really social?

May 11, 2010

Here are a few thoughts on social networking (mainly directed at Facebook). The Issues: Collecting friends becomes a habit The collection can become little more than an online status symbol If this happens are these people really your friends? You just opened up your world and made it ‘ privacy invasive’, you’d likely never dream [...]

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Why are Web Applications Superior to their Desktop counterparts?

December 15, 2009

No need for an install or to ship updates The application lives in the cloud and is centrally managed, when you launch the application you will always have the latest version. This leads to a single point for updates and fixes with the user receiving the updated version the next time they use the application. [...]

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Link Baiting

July 9, 2009

What does that mean? Link baiting (or linkbaiting) is a buzz word in the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) world and has come to be the preferred method of natural link building. And in English? You need to create Linkbait. Essentially it is a piece of content placed on a web page – whether it’s an [...]

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The Web Platform

March 11, 2009

Presented by two of my favorite speakers Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith and they were as good as ever.  i lost my notes, but this is what i remembered without seeing the slides again. Mozilla concept series – future of the browser, the sci-fiction.  But what is really happening to the browser.  Started with Netscape [...]

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Oracle and Enterprise 2.0

December 2, 2008

I recently attended an Oracle seminar entitled Enterprise 2.0, I went looking to understand the direction a company such as Oracle was pursuing in this space.  However, i found the whole experience lacking.  What was wrong was the ever tenuous web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 link, which never worked, as the argument was never formed. The [...]

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Facebook – Finding the owner of lost things

March 19, 2008

Yesturday I found a company pass in the street.  It had a name and a picture on it so I typed in the name to Google, found a facebook page and sent a message.  Owner and pass reunited.  The joy of tech.  Also I feel more warmly towards facebook,  as Ive found a use.  I [...]

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Facebook, i just don’t see the point

March 4, 2008

I have tried and tried, but, i just can’t come to grips with facebook. The only functionality i like to use is the quick updates from my blackberry, but apart from that nothing. I find the fact that my photos are held in limbo annoying, to the point at which i won’t upload and poke, [...]

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