This is what is Weird Wonderful Web for November 2nd through November 7th:
- Vestigial Organs Seem Ripe for Transhumanist Tweaks – Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a mutant, a mutineer and a mutule. (Look it up).
- WTF is Web 3.0? 2.5? or Heck, even Web 2.0? – Albert does “The Next Web”
- Web Semantics Watch: Hyperwords 3.0, with Views – Doug Englebart 3.0. It’s also a FireFox add-on.
- The Fuzzy Tail a play on Chris Anderson’s Long Tail. This is a classic example of the 21st century dictum that, if you can actually explain what you’re doing, you’ve already been outsourced to India.
- Charlie’s Diary: Japan: some impressions – “They’ve got our future, damn it.”
- Programming the World in a Browser (Real Men Don’t Do JavaScript Do They? !) – The mainstream professional developer community has never taken JavaScript seriously but soon they will have no choice. JavaScript is ready to move to center stage as the development and delivery technology for Web 2.x applications.
- Mozilla Prism: Refracting The Web Onto Your Desktop | Compiler from Wired.com – Prism allows you to create desktop-like apps out of individual websites.
- A Prayer to Google | Advice and Opinion – Google is my shepherd, I shall not want for page views and ad revenues. It helpeth me find what I seek and leadeth me through the Internet and maketh me pots of money. .
- 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot – CollegeHumor video – Jack Bauer saves the world with AOL 3.0. And a big reminder of how far we have come since 1994 (only 13 years ago).
- William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary Interview : Rolling Stone – What are the major challenges we face? Let’s go for global warming, peak oil and ubiquitous computing (?!).
– humor Tech singularity biology
– Agile design longtail technology work
– CharlesStross CharlieStross Japan future Culture SciFi tokyo
– gmail Mozilla Software technology deskapp web2.0 applications