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WordCamp is a one day event organized by the creators of WordPress for users and developers. This year’s event was held on Saturday at Mission Bay Conference center and featured talks by a range of people. In his “State of the Word” address, Matt Mulllenweg mentioned this was the largest ever WordCamp with over 400 people attending. You can see a selection of photos from the event at Matt’s post, including mine (also below). There’s also a good live recap of the event by Andrew Mager. Read more...

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I wanted to take a moment and thank the following bloggers and sites for including me in their recent lists of top/favorite female bloggers. I don't tend to pay the most attention to lists and rankings. There's always deserving people that don't get included and the general nature of lists is subjective. That said, I appreciate the recognition, the time it took to put together these lists, and I'm honored to be included among many of my own favorite female bloggers. It's a good reminder of what blogging is all about - sharing your own voice and ideas, whether it's to an audience of ten or ten million. Read more...

I've been tweaking the design of my site behind the scenes for the last few weeks and made the changes live tonight. Of course, there will be continuous tweaks, but I feel purged! Overall, I've tried to reduce clutter and simplify the structure and presentation - a proper cleansing. It's an evolution but also a return to an earlier version with less density. Read more...

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Shouldn't there be a free trial period for paid iPhone apps? Read more...

I came across Goosh.org yesterday through someone's tweet and I'm in love. Goosh, a "UNIX-like command-line interface for Google," combines the search functionality of Google with the simplicity of command line. It brings me back to the days of using Pine for email. Read more...

Tonight browsing Plurk, I saw heyitskenn's plurk about the service being acquired by Pheltup . Read more...

I really enjoyed O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo this year, which took place in San Francisco on April 22-25. The Expo is a companion event to the Web 2.0 Summit, and "an expanded, inclusive gathering for the technology and business communities through a combined conference and tradeshow." Read more...

It still strikes me as fascinating that the iPhone and the OLPC (or XO) laptop were both released in the last year, and yet they're such radically different "computing" and communication devices and concepts. I've spent some time playing simultaneously with the iPhone, the XO or OLPC laptop, and my regular computer combo - an Apple slim keyboard and MacPro tower. I thought about the emotional attachments I've formed based on user experience. Ignoring the discussion of their obviously different markets and functions for a moment, I wanted to share my experience of using each. Read more...

Botanicalls is a project by students at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program. It's "a system that was developed to allow plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the Botanicalls network needs water, it can call a person and ask for exactly what it needs. When people phone the plants, the plants orient callers to their habits and characteristics." Botanicalls Twitter DIY is a version for Twitter so your plants can send Twitter updates when they need water, or send you their thanks. Read more...

In an article at the NY Times last week, the writer states that "research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are not misfits resembling the Lone Gunmen of "The X Files." On the contrary, the cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally effusive teenage girls." Read more...

It's the weekend and I'm going through my digital archives and files again. I know, it's an obsession. While I definitely output a lot to the web and the social sites I use, there's always an exponentially increasing amount of digital data that I'm collecting on my computer and storage devices. The more I collect on my hard drives, the less fluid I'm feeling. So, I plan to start a process I've done before - transferring everything I create or collect from my many hard drives to my site, including notes, designs, references, observations, art, writing, photographs, videos and screenshots... a living archive of personal ephemera. Read more...

Looking through my site FTP directory, I came across a folder for "photos" and remembered that I never finished setting it up or linking to it on my site. There's now a photos link in the navigation of this site, where you can see recent photos I post to Flickr, as well as my current photo sets. Read more...

I've been a supporter of the open source movement since I first got on the web in the early 90s. Almost everything I've learned about the web and programming, I learned from downloading open source software and giving it a try, then hacking it to customize it to my own needs. Read more...

I always get excited when it's an election year, but particularly this one because it's been eight long years. Two web projects related to the U.S. election caught my attention today. Read more...

I'm pleased to let you know that Max Kiesler and my proposed SXSW panel, Social Design Strategies, has been selected for SXSW 2008. Thanks to everyone who voted using the panel picker. Read more...

A few weeks ago, I added a link to my APML (Attention Profiling Markup Language) on the side of my about page thanks to Chris Saad, Co-founder and CEO of Faraday Media, the creators of Particls and co-author of APML. I'm using their product, Engagd, to create my APML file. While I'm still importing RSS feeds from my web attention and activities into my data stream, the APML file gives users a format to view my attention data. Read more...

After spending the last two years as eHub, obsessively profiling and trying out almost every web application that's come out, I've decided to try something different from a new perspective. I just launched PicoCool, a site that's dedicated to bringing you tiny and obscure content from the world of peer media, social networks and subcultures. Read more...

Reactee has mashed-up it's services with Twitter to create a great hybrid of two services that I already like independently. Reactee has created an easy way to make your own t-shirts customized with your Twitter username. Read more...

Ever since I started using Twitter, Tumblr, and Stikkit, it seems I haven't been able to finish a blog post. Instead, I'm just Twittering, collecting, reading, posting: generally zipping through the electronic universe leaving a varied trail of my activities and thoughts. Read more...

As most of you know, I've been flying solo on eHub since it launched as the first Web 2.0 list back in Oct 2005. It's been a thrill and both personally and professionally gratifying to maintain a resource that's used widely. eHub has over 400,000 page views a month and reaches 14,000 daily RSS subscribers and growing weekly. Our audience is diverse and includes users of all types: startups, bloggers, developers, VC, designers, technologists, CEOs, librarians, parents, students, news media... the list goes on. Read more...

We're psyched to launch our first release of Twitterverse tonight after working on the idea for the last couple of weeks and then the last 48 hours straight. Twitterverse is a mashup and a visualization layer for Obvious' hot new product, Twitter, a "sophisticated, device-agnostic, social message routing system that nobody realizes they need until they try it," as Biz Stone so aptly described. Read more...

I'm happy to report that this site, EmilyChang.com, launched in September 2005, has now reached a combined RSS feed total of over 25,000 daily readers. To grab your own feeds, please visit the subscribe page. Read more...

It's hard to believe Flickr has only been around for a few years. It seems like I've been using it much, much longer than three years. That's testament to its lure, success, and the community that has sprung up around both the service and the lifestyle. Flickr is a seamless part of my digital life. It's both output of my picture taking and the visual view into the daily lives of my friends, colleagues and contacts. Read more...

As I was designing for a client web application today, I kept living through John Maeda's first law of simplicity: thoughtful reduction. The goal was to design a new comments system for parts of the site so members were more likely to leave little notes for each other. In order to make it fun and easy, we wanted to reduce the person's input to as few clicks as possible, but with enough expression that she would want to click it. Read more...

I'm still thinking about simplicity/minimalism vs. experiential and emotional experiences. If memory is strongly attributed to adrenaline, then shouldn't we design for optimal emotional attachment? Or, do we design so it's "so simple" that you don't have to think about it? Read more...

After a year and a half of using social applications heavily, I recently had to revisit the plan to aggregate all my activity into one data stream. As the calendar rolled to 2007, I kept wishing I could look at all my social activity from 2006 in context: time, date, type of activity, location, memory, information interest, and so on. What was I bookmarking, blogging about, listening to, going to, and thinking about? I still had the urge to have an information and online activity mash-up that would allow me to discover my own patterns and to share my activity across the web in one chronological stream of data (to start with anyway). Read more...

I came across this post while looking for information on attention recording and one of the paragraphs regarding self-documentary really resonated with me. Read more...

A few months ago I was asked by Tom Markiewicz, CEO of EvolvePoint, to be on a panel about "Using RSS for Marketing" for the SXSW Interactive Conference coming up March 9-13 and I gladly accepted. Read more...

I was glad to see two interesting initiatives this week related to women and girls in technology. The first was Entrepreneurial Night by Girls' Middle School in Mountain View and held at Google. Ten groups of seventh grade girls made their pitches to a room full of venture capitalists. Read more...

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been thinking about different aspects of data visualization (see an earlier post). Read more...

I added Snap Preview Anywhere (SPA) to eHub back in December. The free service provides a quick visual preview of a site whenever you roll over an external link. This lets you get a quick glimpse of the sites I'm linking to. In eHub, this also makes it easier to browse the list and associate a name with the visual recognition of the site preview. Read more...

In an excellent article at the Adobe Design Center site, David Womack describes the significance of one visualization in "Seeing is believing: Information visualization and the debate over global warming." Womack describes the considerations around presenting visualizations of global warming in Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth. There are lessons here for us as both consumers of information and as designers. Read more...

The best way to present or analyze a design would be to record the desktop of an entire design cycle so that people (users, clients, developers, customers, etc.) can see the entire process that led up to the final prototype. Today's designer works in a varied environment between screengrabs, layout, code, browser, chat: a hybrid approach with a process that's fluid and hyperreal. I've yet to see a true representation of the design process. Maybe I'll try to document a design lifecycle using recorded desktop video. Might run into size limitations. Read more...

Seems like I'm not the only one working on new site developments on a Saturday evening. As I'm re-architecting and working on what I want to add in 2007, it seems Twitter and Flickr are also at work :) Read more...

As we amass more and more data, it seems only natural that we'll need new methods to navigate this space. Jeff Han's multi-touch screen is impressive. I don't know if it's the best way to manipulate all types of data or more fine-grained scenarios, but it clearly opens up possibilities for using a wide range of motion and touch. I would love to use this in the design process for rapid re-organization of elements and trying out different types of flow. For photo or video-editing and other types of narrative storytelling, the multi-touch would be incredible. Read more...

This morning I checked my feeds and stats and various web searches and saw a referrer from WipBox, an application I had added to eHub. The long tail at work... Read more...

Came across these two Chinese proverbs tonight while looking through old notes. Read more...

In our accelerated culture, I can think of a particular Devo song and have it downloaded from a music site within seconds. This instant gratification is in contrast to other desires: eg. the slow food movement, craft, longevity. Read more...

In mathematics, the highest measure of a mathematical forumal is to have internal elegance. I think the same is true for web apps and design. Read more...

I'm finally getting around to playing blog tag after being offline and on vacation, then busy with clients again. Thanks to both Deb Schultz and Lisa Stone who tagged me a few weeks ago, spreading the game initiated by Jeff Pulver. Read more...

While waiting for something to download, I decided to take the Superhero and counterpart Super villain online quizzes that have been making their rounds through the geekosphere. Like most personality quizzes, you can almost guess the result as you're answering the clearly bipolar questions. The results also seem largely dependent on whether you answer "yes" to "are you bald?" or "do you have long hair?" but hey, it's just a little web quiz. Read more...

September 4th was the one year anniversary of this blog, but I've been too busy (!) to stop and ponder the significance of it until tonight. While I've had many blogs before, EmilyChang.com is the first professional blog that I've started that's purely focused on web, design and technology, and it's been an extremely gratifying experience. I've met hundreds of people, many of whom I used to merely read from a far, become friends with those that I only once admired, been fortunate to have a stellar line-up of clients at Ideacodes that share my core philosophies, and had that satisfaction of turning an idea into a reality. Read more...

Ideacodes is currently seeking expert front-end XHTML, CSS and AJAX coder(s) on a contract-to-hire basis. Read more...

Many of the trends we've been seeing in Web 2.0 aren't limited to the internet, as much the Valley likes to think so :) Ideas that arise from subcultures do so for a reason. Sometimes because one person rises up to claim it, but more often because a collective group of people are feeling and observing the same cultural climate. Read more...

A round-up of some articles and ideas that I've enjoyed recently with a focus on global change, community, action, and design thinking. Read more...

A few bits of other news caught my eye this last week amid the flurry of activity here in San Francisco around the Web 2.0 Summit. Read more...

I'm at the Widgets Live! conference this afternoon with a sold-out crowd of widget geeks, technologists, developers, bloggers and execs at the Marines' Club in San Francisco. Read more...

Vox, Six Apart's new blog service, launched on Oct 26. Vox puts the emphasis on personal blogging and sharing with friends and family. It features advanced privacy controls, a stunning variety of unique themes, powerful integration with other services like Flickr, YouTube, and more. Read more...

Last Thursday night was the official launch party for Stylehive, the social shopping community focused on new trends, products, designers, stores and experts. The launch party was fabulous. Read more...

"The Trip Up" is the title of Anousheh Ansari's blog post from space. Ansari was the first the first civilian to blog from beyond Earth's orbit. She writes, "Hi everyone, it is about 11:30 GMT here on ISS. It looks like my first entry from space made it down there.. Amazing, isn't it...?" Read more...

Recent posts have been expressing why people don't like using social software, or believe it's just a passing fad. Since I disagree, I've made a short list of why I do use social software, and why I think the social aspects of our digital interactions will only increase not decrease. Read more...

I've had phases where I was really into digital video. In the early 2000s, I shot a lot of footage of my daily life with my one-chip Sony DV cam and turned them into web clips of abstract scenes set to music. Then there was a period where I shot documentary video at electronic music events and raves in Toronto. I participated in some of the early online group video projects like Spongi and DailyDV and watched animations at AtomFilms. Read more...

It's been a whirlwind month as we've been working on the new design of GigaOM.com, the online property founded by award-winning journalist and famous tech blogger, Om Malik. Read more...

One of the reasons I love designing for the web is the constantly shifting landscape, both in terms of audience and tools. With each technological shift in the brief history of the Internet, designers have evolved and created new systems for people to navigate online spaces. In the last few weeks, there's been a good synergy between what I'm working on and what I'm seeing online. I've noticed several sites that are using visualization methods to entice visitors to explore and navigate content. Read more...

I'm here this morning, a few blocks from my place, at the Palace Hotel in SF for the Supernova2006 conference, hosted annually by Kevin Werbach. This year's theme is "making connections in a complex world." The conference started yesterday with workshops at Wharton West, and continues today and tomorrow with panels here at the Palace. Read more...

Last month I had the pleasure of hearing from Kaori Omoto, an editor at CNET Networks Japan. Today, eHub Interviews went live as a channel at the Japanese version of News.com. Read more...

On Thursday, the US House of Representatives rejected an amendment that would have kept large telecommunications broadband providers from being able to treat Internet sites differently. Read more...

Yahoo gave a demo to a small group tonight at the Frey Norris Gallery in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Brad Garlinghouse, Vice President of Communications, Community and Front Door (pictured left) and other members of his team. Read more...

Over on his blog, web.XpunktNull.de, Klaas Bollhoefer has an interview series that will interest eHub readers and Web 2.0 users, especially those that speak German. "Inspired by your interviews, which I love and read regularly, I started a german interview series on my blog with the people behind german Web 2.0 services" writes Klaas. Since April, he's already interviewed twenty companies. Read more...

I've launched a new section for web 2.0 news and events. eHub News will feature product releases, new features, company changes or broadcasts; while eHub events announces demos, conferences, workshops, unconferences, camps, speakers and gatherings. Visit eHub News/Events and submit your news or event today. Read more...

Had some time to cruise through del.icio.us tonight and noticed that one of the Asian bookmarks under /tag/web2.0 had an image associated with it. Since I've been using del.icio.us, I've never seen this and was curious if anyone else noticed it. Read more...

Entrepreneur27's Women 2.0 Conference will focus "on women entrepreneurs making extraordinary leaps in the technology world. Women 2.0 will showcase top women entrepreneurs. We will connect like-minded, motivated women to swap energy, ideas, and experiences with each other." Read more...

Despite the recent news that even newspaper prose is search engine optimized, I'm sticking with my own obtuse title today. Sometimes the web moves so quickly it's hard to keep up with the explosion of ideas both big and small. I recommend reading the following for a snapshot of the web as we know it (this week) and where it might be heading. Read more...

It's not every day that we can teleport ourselves to the world of high fashion and style. But tonight, Friday, March 24, 2006, you can! Join us at the Stylehive virtual headquarters in Second Life for a fashion show to celebrate the launch of Stylehive.com. Read more...

CommunityWalk, the web 2.0 mapping community, has launched the new Explore feature. The Explore page lets you zoom into the map, select a category, or use a live search to find different public maps on CommunityWalk. You can even enter a search for a specific area of the map, or right click to zoom out. As you click through locations, photos are pulled up below the map dynamically. Read more...

While there have been many seminal posts on Web 2.0 in the last several months, I strongly recommend reading "Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?" by Bryan Alexander, Director for Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE). Thanks to Bryan for the mention of eHub at the end of the article, and thanks to Max for sending the article my way tonight. Read more...

It's with a great deal of personal satisfaction that I write this post. About the time I started this blog, my company started designing the Stylehive, a collaborative shopping community. It's a place where contributors share and discover the hottest stores, styles, designers, trends, and must have products. Read more...

I'm always interested in new blog networks. I've been fortunate to enjoy a healthy increasing readership and acceptance in several online networks. Most of these, however, push content out to other niche sites in the blogosphere. BlogBurst is a new product by Pluck, a company based in Austin co-founded in 2003 by Dave Panos and Andrew Busey. BlogBurst is an opt-in wire service for bloggers and publishers with a different approach. Read more...

These days, like many of you, my life is filled with electronic communications, whether that's email, chat, collaborative project management, mobile messages, or other data sources. I've written about this in the past. Read more...

We're at MashupCamp, a two day event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, nestled in Silicon Valley, south of Palo Alto and north of Sunnyvale. I mention that because there's a palatable sense of tech here in the Bay area that can't be ignored. It's one of the reasons that I moved to SF a year and a half ago, and it's one of the many things I love about this area. I've walked into plenty of suburban Hilton Garden Inns around the country, but at this one, there's a pamphlet for the Intel Museum in the rack of tourist attractions. Read more...

Mike Arrington's TechCrunch 5 party for Shel Israel and Robert Scoble's new book, Naked Conversations, was a big success on Friday night in Atherton, CA. Some 400 people showed up at Mike's house to mingle, hang out, congratulate Shel and Robert, and generally celebrate amidst a great crowd of techies, bloggers, entrepreneurs, tech giants, thought leaders, startups, designers, developers, photographers, and even Douglas Engelbart, the creator of the mouse. Read more...

Thursday night was Kevin Werbach's Pre-Pre-Supernova party here in SF, just a couple blocks away at Cha-Am Thai. The dinner was a great chance to network and chat with leading tech innovators, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders. Read more...

On August 20, 1980, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to summit Mount Everest without the use of bottled oxygen. They accomplished this amazing feat by doing what no other expedition had ever done. They carried all of their own gear, did no route preparation, and did not use supplemental oxygen. They were successful where others were not, because they approached the problem from a different angle. After years of climbing experience, they recognized that their two greatest assets were agility and improvisation in the face of constant change. This philosophical shift enabled them to not only succeed, but to innovate, while others had attempted only to survive. Read more...

Today happens to be the four month anniversary of eHub Interviews, a series of email questions and answers with the creators and companies behind many of the new web 2.0 services and applications that we've been witnessing and using online. According to many of you who write in, the interviews are "one of your favorite parts... it puts a human face to all of these projects. It really adds a valuable dimension to the web review sites." I'm glad to hear it. Among many of the self-appointed roles that I have at/as eHub, the interviews are one of my favorite activities. One of the questions asked in each interview is "What is your design philosophy?" Read more...

Today turns out to be the twenty year anniversary of when George Lucas sold Pixar to Steve Jobs. In the post, "February 3, 1986: Divorce, Mogul Style," Chris Seibold tells of how Lucas decided to "see a smallish piece of his Lucas Film empire" to raise cash to settle his divorce. Given Lucas' predicament, Steve Jobs was able to bring Lucas' initial asking price of 30 million dollars to 10 million. Read more...

Having spent many years developing web products for higher education, I'm always interested when universities or colleges open up their knowledge banks to the public using new technologies (see OpenCourseWare Finder). Read more...

I'm pleased to announce that my Ideacodes partner, Max Kiesler, and I will be on a panel of judges for the ExpressionEngine $15,000 Shootout. Read more...

The JP Morgan and Connector Group Showcase, "a unique forum for companies to introduce their leading-edge products and services to the Silicon Valley's elite group of tastemakers and influencers ," took place on Monday, January 30 at the JP Morgan offices here in SF. Read more...

We had the wonderful opportunity to attend an informal dinner on Monday night here in SF with the Yahoo! design group and a mix of fellow designers, developers, and even some HCI and usability legends. Read more...

I received email from Marc Guldimann tonight from Spongecell, an "absorbful calendar." They're having a launch party here in San Francisco at Ritual Roasters on Wednesday and we'll be stopping by. Read more...

Earlier today, I went to the E27 Technology Symposium at Stanford University. E27 is "a forum for young entrepreneurs to showcase their upcoming or new products to influential representatives from newspapers, popular blogs, progressive companies, universities, and venture capitalist firms." Read more...

My partner at Ideacodes, Max Kiesler, and I are back from attending Search Champs which took place this week, January 24 - 26 at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. Search Champs is an event hosted by the MSN Search team to invite "groups of academics, bloggers, siteowners, and technologists to talk about search... We usually select this group based on who we are reading and we think would provide us great insight. We spend a couple of days with the group showing them our future plans, getting their input and making connections." This year's group included 57 attendees, with various backgrounds and perspectives, but with a common interest in making the internet more democratic, usable, and read/writable. Read more...

Two new web apps caught my eye this evening as I scanned my email: Nuvvo and Newsvine. The two sites are very different in their concept and functionality, but both share the same purpose - to enable individuals (content creators, writers, news buffs, teachers, amateurs, experts, you) to reach a larger niche audience, and to make money from it. Read more...

I first visited Corante while a graduate student transitioning from multimedia installation art to web-based work. Many (!) years later, Corante, the world's first blog media company, is still going strong - publishing diverse, unbiased views on technology, science, business, and society. Today, Corante 2.0 takes off with the launch of Corante Hubs and the Corante Network. Read more...

I'm happy to announce that both eHub and emilychang.com have been invited to join the Web 2.0 Workgroup, a network created last month by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, Richard MacManus of Read/WriteWeb, and Frederico Oliveira of WeBreakstuff. Read more...

SuprGlu "gathers your content from popular web services and publishes them in one convenient place." My first thought was that it sounded like another simple feed aggregator. I gave SuprGlu a spin tonight and was pleasantly surprised by both the ease of use and the sense of personal discovery. Read more...

I'm pleased to announce a new set of eHub Interviews (Netvibes, Codase, goowy, ColorBlender, Last.fm) has been translated into Japanese by the exceptional Ryutaro Kamitsu. Read more...

On November 1, after two weeks without updates (to inbound links and sites in the Technorati statistics), I logged into Technorati to find my site had jumped in rank from 1,616 (801 links from 423 sites) to 1,047 (1,096 links from 552 sites). At one point during the day, emilychang.com came in at number 999. Read more...

I came across an old blog post of mine that caused a double-take. The post, titled "One-Screen Access to Your Life" isn't about Netvibes or another Web 2.0 application, but cites a story at the New York Times from November 2002. Read more...

This morning I was checking my inbound links and came across a post, "I'm Off eHubwatch", by Charlie O'Donnell of Union Square Ventures. In his post, he criticizes both the validity of eHub as a resource and also vents his frustration over the business-merit of the applications that are currently listed. I'll let you read his post for yourself, but here are a few comments from my point of view. Read more...

I'm pleased to announce that Max Kiesler and I will be working with Jared Cosulich, creator of CommunityWalk, to redesign the front-end interface for the application. See the news story from my company site also posted here. Read more...

Like you, I've been reading much of the commentary online about Web 2.0 at various blogs and sites the last month or so, and particularly this last week as the O'Reilly Web 2.0 conference came and went here in SF. Read more...

Today is the one month birthday of eHub. I started blogging here at emilychang.com on September 3. A week later, I made eHub as a resource to keep up with the rapid-fire development of new web apps, services, and social trends that I had already been following with a keen eye. I'll post thoughts about the social and conceptual implications of this month's growth, but for the moment, I'd like to share some quantitative data. Read more...

eHub Interviews launches featuring four interviews with creators of web 2.0 applications, including Writely, Protopage, CommunityWalk, CentralDesktop. Read more...

In addition to eHub Interviews launching this week, we're pleased to promote two others that are doing a great job covering the shifting landscape. Read more...

eHub Interviews, a series of email interviews with the creators of Web 2.0 applications and services, will launch this week (October 3-8, 2005) as part of the unofficial Web 2.0 week here in San Francisco.¹ With over 150 web applications and services in eHub (and growing every day), we felt it was time to hear about Web 2.0 from the people making it. Read more...

We're pleased to provide an alpha release of two examples of AJAX image galleries by Max Kiesler and Emily Chang of Ideacodes. One uses PHP and MySQL and the other requires no database and simply pulls images directly out of a designated directory on your web server. Read more...

I had gotten an email from the Netvibes team to take a look at the site last week and signed up and took a quick spin around. I finally had a chance to explore further tonight. The buzz around Netvibes is well warranted.¹ In previous posts, I'd been writing about the desire for tools that make it easier to navigate our variety of information sources. Netvibes provides a fast and efficient interface from which to do just that. Read more...