reflections

Barely a day goes by recently where a new social networking or image host springs up, only to fade to nothing and slip past everybody because of a fundamental lack of originality!

So I found it quite refreshing to learn this morning that somebody was doing something unusual with a website! Glogster is a fantastic new way to express your mood, feelings and ideas visually. The simple and intuitive interface quickly takes you a long way beyond what could be created with basic text and videos. It’s still officially in beta - but I personally feel that it’s already as slick as it needs to be!

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Information Architects have released their Web Trend Map for 2007 - a subway-style map of the top 200 sites on the web. It’s ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective - and it demonstrates the relationship between various sites and ideas, with a strong focus on Web 2.0.

I love this sort of stuff, in geeky sort of way - but I don’t recommended that you try reading this with a hangover (Tess, that means you!). You can also download the PDF version.

Improvements from the first version include the addition of new websites (from countries including Japan, Germany and China), the renaming of the lines, the addition of forecast, and new labels that indicate how forward-thinking sites are (for example, Flickr and Facebook have been labeled as web 2.5 sites).

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Four years ago I wrote an article for a British magazine, looking at the technologies used by the adult industry, asking if they could perhaps end up shaping the future of the Web. While the magazine itself has now sadly vanished, I’m still here - so I thought it might be time to revisit the topic!

Technologies that we were taking for granted in 2003 were originally pioneered (or at least perfected) by the adult sector. Simple things like members-only sites and e-commerce wouldn’t have been what they were back then without porn - but what exactly were the brave new frontiers four years ago, and how much have they shaped the Web as it is today?

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