So if you meet an early adopter have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste. To be an early adopter of new web applications and specifically Web 2.0 social networks and User Generated Content (UGC) based sites like Norg, Twitter, Brightkite etc means that you come in before that site or network has reached critical mass. In fact - you join up when they're still handing out single ... Read full entry

It's about time that age old carrier of cash was given a Web 2.0 makeover. Wallet 2.0 is made out of very soft silicone, available in 5 colors, and comes with a patent pending system of refill sheets that allow you to be really organized (at least in your wallet). Think of the refill sheets as a manila folder in your wallet, giving you immediate access to the item ... Read full entry

Shake out time is fast approaching, and the days of the Web 2.0 boom are drawing to a close says computer scientist, entrepreneur, and PayPal co-founder, Max Levchin. This is Levchin's reasoning. Members of the last crop of start-ups - many of them Web 2.0 companies created two-three years ago - are fast approaching their date with destiny. A slowing US economy and worsening financing environment will force those ... Read full entry

The vanishing personal site Where have all the personal websites gone? Gone to self-syndicating Web 2.0 applications like Twitter, Flickr, and del.icio.us, every one of them. Our personal sites, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed personal site containing professional information, links, and brief bursts of frequently updated content to ... Read full entry

The Life and Times of Cool. An interesting discussion on future trends in web design, which also asks the question, "what is cool today in web design?" Many of us know in the back of our minds that the future of web design is closely connected with the future of the computers themselves, but we fail to realize the coming situations, where nearly everything we've learned (and practiced) is going to ... Read full entry

In All Fairness ... Internet Explorer Still Stinks: same old same old really. After all these years, and supposed improvements, Internet Explorer (even the latest version) remains a web developer's nightmare. + Screen Resolutions and Better User Experience: what do they say? Less is more? Optimal user experience is rarely achieved by visual design ... Read full entry