Thing 23 - Feedback

Feedback
I will certainly keep on using some of the ’23 Things’ such as Google Docs, images, iGoogle etc.
However, these ‘things’ were not new to me as I have used them for quite some time already.

I am not sure whether I will keep on blogging. At the moment I am quite happy to keep in touch with family and friends by email. I find this more personal.

There were not many surprises. I liked the book cover program as well as the cooking blog. I will keep on using these sites.

I could not recommend much as to improvement of the ’23 Things’ format except that I did not really find it a suitable assignment for a Diploma class. Cert 2 – 4 would benefit greatly from this program.

Thing 22 - Post about Technology

Among the new web technologies I would count the steady progression, advancement and improvement of technologies such as Ajax, php, html etc.. Software such as Adobe’s Master Suite and Expression Web helps produce great sites. Microsoft Office suites are also great.

Hardware is getting better and better, software more interesting

Thing 21 - Web2.0 Award Winners

I have chosen the site I am cooked! I have signed up as there are lots of recipes to share, videos to watch and advice given and asked.

Thing 20 - Read about Web2.0

Web 2 is the new improved version of www. It is a second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis and blogs.

Web 2.0 websites allow users to do more than just retrieve information. It can provide "Network as platform" computing, allowing users to run software-applications entirely through a browser. Users can own the data on a Web 2.0 site and exercise control over that data. These sites may have an "Architecture of participation" that encourages users to add value to the application as they use it. This stands in contrast to traditional websites, the sort that limited visitors to viewing and whose content only the site's owner could modify. Web 2.0 sites often feature a rich, user-friendly interface based on Ajax and similar client-side interactivity frameworks, or full client-server application frameworks.

Thing 19 - Twitter

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Twitter is pretty much like MySpace. However, instead of writing a comment on your friend’s page, you write the comments on your own page and your friends come and look at your page and in turn comment on this on their own page. Access, of course can be restricted.
Twitter posts or ‘tweets’ are used to let your friends know what you are doing right now or to comment on what your friends have been up to.

Thing 18 - Image Generators

I chose to make a book cover. Since I have a somewhat difficult relationship with shell scripting, I made an appropriate cover. It was fun. Click on this link to make your own cover.

Thing 17 - iGoogle

iGoogle – another great idea. I have used Google for my home page for a long time. Now I use iGooogle which I customize according to my interests. There a LOTS of gadgets offered by Google that can be incorporated into your iGoogle page. I chose
weather – Melbourne and overseas
news
world clocks Melbourne and overseas times
currency converter
css feeds
dictionary
Google reader
YouTube
Calendar
At one glance I can see the sites and information I access very often.