Tag Archives: web 2.0 review

What Can We Do With ‘Swurl’?

Most social network sites have the option for their users to post what they are doing right now, to post pictures and show the music they listen to, all real time. On Swurl.com all features come together and thus create an overview of someones digital alter ego.

What is Twitter (not)?

http://twitter.com/mnke

A web 2.0 review in Twitter-style:

Zaadz, a social network

images.jpgZaadz is a social network in two senses: first of all it is a social network like MySpace or Hyves because people can communicate share and many other things on this site if they have an account. The difference with Zaadz is that it also has this other social network meaning: it is social in the sense that…

What’s wrong with Web-cynicism?

Whether you’re the latest social networking site out of Silicon Valley, or a lowly blogpost fueled by coffee, plans don’t always work out. I started writing this post with the title The Wasteland of Web 2.0, and was going to describe my experiences with Spurl and Furl, two social bookmarking services in the worst kind of disrepair. What drew me to them was not their Flickry names, but that they both lacked an icon on Mashable’s list of social software applications.

Thanks for the add

Image by Scott JohnsonMyspace started in 2003 as a stage for aspiring bands and musicians, but evolved from a subculture platform to a mainstream profiling and networking giant. I want to have a look at the social constructions within Myspace and how Myspace is being looked at after it has become the number one networking site.

Second life: a utopian project gone bad

second life logo
Of course, we all know Second life, any many writings already exist. Mostly on how incredible and promising this open-source-collaborative online community-building actually is.
To see in what ways these terms hold any value nowadays, I logged into Second Life after a long, long time. Shocking experience…

Instead of the usual whatever-take on these ‘do you agree’…