Sunday, May 13, 2007
SecondLife Books
Me, I am Page Raymaker.
You might find me for a chat in SecondLife. Today I am visiting Book Island owned by Selina Greene. Here is the SLURL.
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Friday, March 23, 2007
Current Mashup and API Trends
Great article over at Read/WriteWeb
Web 2.0 has brought us a flock of APIs and the wonderful new concept of a Web mashup. Thanks to apps like Google Maps,
del.icio.us and Flickr, we have started to think a lot about remixing the web.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
UK Government to shut 551 websites
Hundreds of government websites are to be shut as part of moves to focus on BBC website-style “supersites”.
The suggestion is that there will now be a supersite, rather like the giant BBC web site (where this news item comes from)
Seems to me though, that we already have a supersite - Google
Sourced at BBC News | Technology
Posted on 13 Jan 2007 around 12am •
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
The New Jackanory proves Media Convergence
The BBC have recently been showing their new series of Jackanory, the children’s storytime tv show.
When I sat down with my daughter to watch, I was struck by how this production takes many visual clues from computer-based games and CD-ROMs from interactive screen media.
The new Jackanory (on TV since 1965), is built to very high production values with computer graphics. Particularly clever, the mix of the narrator with the animated imagery, bringing the story to life.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
What’s the Word on the Street?
Isn’t it depressing the way many of us presume that everyone has a copy of Microsoft Word?
A colleague of mine was sent a document unreadable by his copy of MS Word. The extension was .wps. The author claimed that it would open with WordPad (the free text editor that comes with Windows), well it didn’t open this file. On further inspection we came to the conclusion that this file was born of Microsoft Works. But not of the recent variety because that comes with Microsoft Word (see here). On further research here this .wps file is certainly a Works document but you need an extension for Microsoft Word to open it.
The point is though, we shouldn’t presume that everyone has Microsoft Word.
