Really long-term readers of this blog might remember Delicious (or, as I still instinctively type it, del.icio.us – surely one of the best domain names ever), the social bookmarking site. It was, in essence, a semi-public web-based version of…
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10 Flickring Years
Flickr is a decade old: Together we have defined online photo sharing. Currently, there are nearly 2 million groups sharing 1 million photos every day. We were the first significant online community where you could store, organize, tag, and share…
Aral on identity, privacy and app.net
Liveblog of Aral’s talk at Hacks/Hackers Brighton: * * ## [Aral Balkan](http://www.breakingthin.gs) He’s going to talk to us about identity and privacy. He’s an experience designer. He makes things for people – mainly virtual products, his…
Digg: web history, broken up for parts
Alexia, writing for TechCrunch: Digg was an extremely influential site for anyone who worked in the early era of online publishing, so it being scrapped for parts is sort of weird, especially for those of us who used to beg…
Quora: Over-hyped and flooding my in-box
Time for a confession: I’m a Quora sceptic. There’s nothing specific about the service itself that’s causing this – I’ve barely used it so far – but the way both it and people around it are behaving suggests…
Storify's Story
Storify has been on my “must experiment with” list for the past couple of months. It just shot up towards the top, thanks to this video:…
Web 2.0 Square: Your Future, Visualised
I rather like this little graphic from [Ross Mayfield,](http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2009/10/web-20-square.html) based on ideas being discussed at this year’s [Web 2.0 Expo](http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/public/schedule/detail/10194)…
A New Way To Follow The Eurovision
It’s nearly the weekend. And we know what this weekend brings, don’t we? Eurovision. Now, we might be lacking Terry Wogan this year, so can I recommend a whole different kind of coverage for you? Mr Ewan Spence,…