A Three Way Battle? Fighting to Dominate Search, the Desktop, and the Data Web
The pace of the web at the moment is frightening - every time I take a couple of days away, there's another announcement.I've just come back to the blogosphere after a few days away, and it seems that...
View ArticleMicrosoft Embraces OpenSearch?
I've blogged a few times about A9's Open Search, so when this post - IEBlog : IE7 and OpenSearch: Behind the scenes - appeared on the IE blog, it caught my eye.Here's a snippet:It’s been a lot of fun...
View ArticleOpenSearch Description Format Embraces HTML Search Engines
Chasing down the announcement of the IE7 mash-up with OpenSearch (IEBlog : IE7 and OpenSearch: Behind the scenes) using the OpenSearch 1.1 format, it seems that the new spec allows developers to define...
View ArticleGadgets Hot On the Heels of Widgets
It wasn't so long after I got my first Konfabulator widget that Google Desktop extensions came in to play. Now it seems like the third of the tussling three (Google, Yahoo and Microsoft) want to play...
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Separating Navigation from Content and Style?
With the latest A9 Toolbar, website designers now have an opportunity to embed site navigation information into a drop down menu from the toolbar by publishing a descriptive siteinfo.xml document at...
View ArticleRich browser applications: email example
Although browsers have supported javascript for years, it's only recently (in the last year or so) that powerful/rich applications have become readilyavailable.This screencast describes Zimbra, an open...
View ArticleSocial Developer Tools
I've been holding off blogging about Ning, even though I managed to bookmark it quite early on (which has done my del.icio.us collaborative rank no end of good!), partly because a lot of people I read...
View ArticleAggregation Profiles
With the increasing number of knowledge sources that are making themselves amenable to subscription via RSS, working out what to subscribe to to get coverage of a particular topic is likely to be...
View ArticleSearch Rolls and Feed Annotation Streams
As well as being able to subscribe in one fell swoop to every feed listed in a given feedroll, I also like the idea of being able to call on predefined searchrolls (e.g. that aggregate a list of...
View ArticleCoping With Email: Is Hope the Only Way Out of Here?
Although I manage to get the number of messages in my primary email Mailbox down to a manageable number every so often, I find as each day goes by that the number of unread and unfiled messages tends...
View ArticleValidating Link Rolls
For some time I've been using the del.icio.us link roll script to display links from del.cio.us, and a variety of RSS to javascript services to render arbitrary RSS feeds in my own web pages.The time...
View ArticleOnline Playgrounds, Part I: XSLT
As background research for a possible new course on web technologies, I've been looking around for web-based scratchpads to allow students to play about a bit and get a feel for what's possible in...
View ArticleAsides, (Timerolls) and Pingrolls
Over on my other blog I just had call, within one post, to create another post containing an aside (i.e. self-contained footnote).The process went as follows: as I was writing the first post, I created...
View ArticleBrowser OS - A Single Application Operating System
In his Observer column this week (Pitiful spectacle of an old DOS trying to do new tricks) John Naughton comments on the announcement of Microsoft Office Live:"...a web service is technospeak for a...
View ArticleMe: Aggregated
I just stumbled across Suprglu which seems to be some sort of "blog syndicator". Give the service a feed or two, from a blog, flickr or del.icio.us, for example, and it will aggregate everyting for you...
View ArticleMe, Aggregated, Part 2
It struck me driving in to work today that while Suprglu potentially provides me with single aggregated view of a variety of my web offerings, it doesn't let me search them...But Rollyo does... doesn't...
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SearchLinks
Just a quick, quick post about something I'm doodling with - SearchLinks.The basic idea is to be able to hover over a link and then perform a Google search using your own search terms over that...
View ArticleRollyo Portable? PageLinks Search
Just after I made the SearchLinks post last night, it struck me that another possibly useful tool would be a federated search over all the sites linked to from a given page: Rollyo Portable, if you...
View Articlecc:Blog
I've already mentioned Suprglu in a couple of posts (here and here, in fact), but it also came to mind when I recently revisited this exchange across the Library Clips and Data Mining blogs on managing...
View ArticleChat Mail
Every four or five months I clear out my email Mailbox, vowing as I do so that I will put some of the recommendations made in Mark Hurst's Managing Incoming Email management report and not let things...
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