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Keeping Track of the Web

Okay, so this is going to seem ridiculously out of place among all the third travelogue extravaganzas, but thanks to the flu and some computer issues, I never got the concluding post up for the second travelogue.  So excuse me for the interruption, but I wanted to get it up here so I could sum up some of my thoughts.

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By Maggie 07:08, Nov 4th, 08 2-travelogue No Comments

Widgets Are the Web

There’s a fine line between applications and widgets, and it’s getting smaller every day.  On one hand, we want our software to have all the bells and whistles; for example, Photoshop was once reserved for the professionals who needed it but now every thirteen year old with access to a bit torrent knows how to Photoshop (it’s even a verb!).  

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By Maggie 14:56, Oct 7th, 08 2-travelogue No Comments

Blood-sucking Vampire Widgets

Remember the days when you couldn’t login to Facebook without a cheery message alerting that you’d been bitten? Or for the more polite friends, that you’ve received an invitation to be bitten?  Or something like that?

Then you were probably, like me, under the spell of the Facebook Zombie Application (and maybe later, for the brave souls, the vampire and werewolf varieties of the same app).  You had to turn as many friends into zombies to earn points (read:  the more people that install the application, the better).   Read More »

By Maggie 2-travelogue 1 Comment