StumbleUpon

I found this really cool tool off digg last night called StumbleUpon. It's kind of a cross between digg and the old "hot or not" website, but instead of rating humans it rates websites by use of a toolbar in the browser, with a thumbs up or thumbs down.

You get to choose your interests that you would like to stumble upon - and when you start stumbling (click the stumble button), it actually returns very high quality sites, that you would normally never find from a search engine (or something like digg for that matter). It also takes note of what you rate good or bad to return more relavant stumbles.

havva go: http://www.stumbleupon.com/

yahoo pipes - nice explanation

I like this explanation of yahoo pipes - and the concept of "treating of the web as a database". Me being a database junkie it appeals to my sense of information organising....

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_pipes_web_database.php

I guess it's a search engines job to treat the web as a database - yahoo is just making it more obvious now by letting your average everyday chum to do some of their work for them - and giving them something in return.

I still havent tried it out... so I cant comment too much. You have to sign up to yet another account which is putting me off. I had a yahoo one about 6 years ago - cant remember it now or what email it was signed on as. I'm starting to get account overload.

new collaboration system - preview 1

I finalised the new data structure of the latest project at work today. Should be a great system - it will let all our clients collaborate much more efficiently, and generally let the whole process flow much more smoother.

I would classify it to be a "web two point oh" class of app - or a more preferable term for our target market: a rich user experience web application - geared towards service based businesses. It'll enable us a much higher level of customer service and give clients a better experience right through the project life cycle.

We'll use it ourselves to prove the platform - but I think it'll be a very attractive system for similar businesses.

I've still got some specifications to complete - coding not far off beginning.

media coverage

The website they're talking about in this news release:

http://ninemsn.video.msn.com/v/en-au/v.htm?g=67c5901f-a9d0-4b48-8ac6-670a89ec1864&f=39&fg=email

Made by us!

new direction

ok, this blog needs to be ramped up. at the moment it's a bit of a mish mash of ideas/interests I had 2 or 3 years ago.... some of them I still think quite applicable, but still pretty random.

Because I'm so interested and involved in web development and system development - it's really gotta be more focussed on that.

So this is my offical "change in direction" post - i want to focus more on trends, ideas, achievments, cool stuff, all web focussed. i promise i'll be more proactive in getting info up here - i want to treat it as a kind of scrap book.

cool. i'm amped. grrrrr!