Monthly Archives: September 2006

Webmontag Cologne one week later!

By Oliver Wrede | Published: September 30, 2006
Please spread the word: The Webmontag-Event in Cologne was pushed one week (from 2nd October to the 9th October).
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Pathways

By Oliver Wrede | Published: September 25, 2006
Pathways is a little mapping tool for Wikipedia. It represents visited Wikipedia pages with a graphical network of boxes. Once you have collected and arranged a map view of your Wikipedia session, you can save the result as a Pathway file. The files Pathway creates are XML. So it should be very easy to transform [...]
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Grazr

By Oliver Wrede | Published: September 24, 2006
This must be one of Dave Winers favourites: Grazr is a DHTML based outline browser: You can link to OPML files (that again may link to OPML files). You can create virtual hierarchies of OPML files, RSS feeds and other Grazr outlines. Winer called that idea a World outline. People with a pre-WWW Internet experience [...]
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jQuery JavaScript Framework

By Oliver Wrede | Published: September 22, 2006
As I expected there have been a number of JaveScript frameworks in the making. One I just heard of is jQuery. It is supposed to be easier to use than its counterparts.
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Weblogs and learning

By Oliver Wrede | Published: September 11, 2006
I was staying away from discussion about weblogs in education for a longer time. Partly because I had other things to do and partly because I wanted to refocus my thoughts (thus getting outside the loop was good). I found that a some articles have quoted the »Weblogs and discourse« (new URL!) paper. One is [...]
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Cellcast.de

By Oliver Wrede | Published: September 11, 2006
Cellcast.de is a german website that allows to create podcasts from mobile phone calls. Simple & straight forward.
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Simplicity in Linz

By Oliver Wrede | Published: September 10, 2006
Tobias, Tim and Konstantin visited the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. The topic was »simplicity«. They have provided some insightful comments. With the exception of a presentation of John Maeda (video, website) there seemed to be little progress in the discussion about the notion of simplicity. Obviously the term »simplicity« is a term that can’t [...]
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Flickr Map

By Oliver Wrede | Published: September 9, 2006
Flickr has released a major new feature: mapping & geo-tagging photos. I just tried this feautre with some of my own photos. The application is working like charm. It is very well designed: it’s easy and fun to use. There have been over three million photos geographically tagged in the first few days since this [...]
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Weblogs & Discourse paper new link

By Oliver Wrede | Published: September 8, 2006
Weblogs and Discourse - BlogTalk 2003 paper moved.
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WebnoteHappy

By Oliver Wrede | Published: September 4, 2006
WebnoteHappy is a nifty little application that makes life with bookmarks (both in browser and on del.icio.us) much easier. It is a $25 dollar shareware with a 30 day free trial. More generally thinking I asked myself how many people actually do Paypal donations on “donationware”? Would these little applications make a better profit if [...]
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Plone 2.5

By Oliver Wrede | Published: September 4, 2006
There is a new version of Plone out for some weeks now as well as a roadmap for future releases. The homepage of plone.org has also been redesigner to emphasize the key selling arguments of the Plone CMS. I have seen in the “inner workings” of a number of content management systems. I think Plone [...]
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