Archive for April, 2008

First Birthday!

Published by Ben Kepes on April 27, 2008 in Blogroll. 4 Comments

One year ago today the first posting to what would eventually become Diversity Blogs was made. It seemed then an opportune time for a little reflection and statistical measurement;

841 posts
1112 comments
8 contributors (some major some less so!)

What initially started as a forum to discuss the place of New Zealand within the world, and specifically where manufacturing stood within that, has morphed rapidly into something else; a place to come together and discuss things technological - be they web 2.0, SaaS or telecoms.

The Blog has opened doors to some interesting projects for Diversity Limited, garnered respect from some respected sources and been an outlet for some thoughts.

It’s been a great year - here’s to the next 12 months!

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Diversity in audio format

Published by Ben Kepes on April 26, 2008 in Blogroll. 2 Comments

Sharp eyed reader will notice that Diversity posts are now availabe in audio format - both streaming and to download. Great for the iPodders and visually impaired out there.The service is provided by Odiogo and thus far seems pretty high quality.

Feeds to a myriad of services below;

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O’Reilly annoints SaaS… And dismisses versioning the web?

Published by Ben Kepes on April 26, 2008 in SaaS and Web x.0. 0 Comments

Phew - I new I was onto a good thing, and now justification from on high. At the web 2.0 expo keynote, father of all things web 2.0 Tim O’Reilly modified his descriptor of web 2.0 to include;

  • The Internet is the platform
  • Harnessing the collective intelligence
  • Data as the “Intel Inside”
  • Software above the level of a single device
  • Software as a service

He also seems to have gotten over the entire web 1.0/web 2.0/web 3.0 classification thing, as RWW says in its aptly titled post “There is No Web 3.0, There is No Web 2.0. There is Just the Web“;

“The points of contrast [between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0] are actually the same points that I used to distinguish Web 2.0 from Web 1.5. (I’ve always said that Web 2.0 = Web 1.0, with the dot com bust being a side trip that got it wrong.),” wrote O’Reilly last fall. In other words, the versioning of the web is silly. Web 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0 is all really just whatever cool new thing we’re using the web to accomplish right now.

Whice very nicely dovetails with something I posted about an entire 8 months ago - ah smug self satisfaction!

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Welcome to seesmic….

Published by Ben Kepes on April 25, 2008 in Blogging. 1 Comment

I’ve not as yet joined the realm of the podcasters out there, however an invite code to seesmic made me think about starting a foray in vidcasting. Firstly I’d be keen to hear readers opinions on whether vidcasting is a positive step for a blog such as this one;

If your IT department gave you the option, would you chose for business use;

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Anyway - here’s my first foray into vidcasting, enjoy!

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