I’ve been away on a well needed, and long overdue, holiday in the sun for the past 10 days (and congrats to Gus & Ger on their wedding – everyone had a great time!). It helped sort out that burnt out feeling that was giving me shudders down my spine at the mere sight of [...]
Category Archives: Web Applications
Twitter & Social Network Analysis Apps
September 19, 2008 – 2:42 pm
I’ve used social network analysis in the past as a basis for identifying companies & individuals of interest within research I was doing. Social Network Analysis gives a way of analysing and conceptualising social relationships. It focuses on ways of visualising these relationships in a network structure (Explanation adapted from de Nooy, et al – [...]
eWrite…having a Tuesday Push
September 10, 2008 – 2:35 am
The next Irish web application feeling the Tuesday Push is the hosted Content Management suite by eWrite. eWrite offer small businesses a way of keeping their site up to date, without having to rely on web developers to do it for them. Having had a browse about the eWrite site, I was especially impressed with [...]
Getting into Gears: Offline Web App Tutorial – Part 2
August 20, 2008 – 2:20 pm
In the first part of this tutorial I took a look at some of the background to Gears; the code example showed how to initialise Gears, and create a database (with a table definition). Apologies for the delay in getting the second part out of the drafts section of the blog. In this section, I’ll [...]
More Tuesday Pushing – Pix.ie
July 29, 2008 – 8:11 pm
It’s that time again, and today’s Tuesday Push is the Irish photo sharing site Pix.ie. As I always forget to bring a camera anywhere, I rarely have many photos to upload, so, as with my Flickr account, my Pix.ie account hasn’t been getting a huge amount of use. That said, in the spirit of of [...]
Cuil launched – Looks less than impressive…
July 28, 2008 – 11:31 am
A new search engine was launched today – Cuil say that they index more pages than Google or Microsoft, and that: Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze [...]
Mixtapes with Muxtape & Favtape
July 23, 2008 – 8:38 pm
I came across Muxtape earlier after reading a couple of articles about it on the web earlier today. Muxtape allows users to create their own “mixtape”, as well as to browse other user’s “tapes”. It takes a bit of time to set up, because songs have to be uploaded individually…but at the end, you have [...]
Getting into Gears: Offline Web App Tutorial – Part 1
July 19, 2008 – 12:39 pm
Growing numbers of web applications have been dipping their toes into providing offline access using Gears. Recent examples include Google Reader (Google originally developed Gears before releasing it as an open source project), Remember the Milk, WordPress (in Version 2.6), with planned integrations from MySpace and Gmail. Offline access provides a way for a user [...]
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