David John Mead

Are Web2.0 sites dropping like flies?

So only after updating my Google profile did I notice that two more sites/services have gone the way of the Dodo.

Resolio was an online resume builder that used the hResume microformat and let you store & publish your resume online.  I found it a good service and used it to create my resume for my interview at Progressive.

Swurl was a life streaming site I wrote about before that had a nice way to present your content.  The owners now have another project to do with eBay search running in its place.

I suppose its time for someone to come up with a web-troika site to track the existence of all the web2.0 aggregators out there.

Technorati tags: web2.0, closing

I remember what the future was like…

Is was the 90’s and I was just hearing about this whole Internet thingy. I worked on an industrial estate at the end of the Fenchurch Street (train) line in Essex.  We still had a computer that took 5¼” floppy disks and the new Windows machine was solely for the Director.

My knowledge of “the net” came from William Gibson, .NET Magazine and a book called Virtual Reality by Howard Rheingold.  Mr. Rheingold’s book become something I read, and shared with friends.  This was what was going to happen!  It was filled with descriptions of old arcade games that emulated motorcycle rides through to teledildonics.

After getting a PC and connecting to “the net” (which really was more frustration than excitement at the start) things didn’t quite pan out the way I foresaw them.

I looked for that book recently, just to re-visit some of the ideas, but found it was one I left behind when we moved to the US.  But as chance would have it I ended up connecting with Mr. Rheingold (virtually) the very next day.  As I fired up Miro, there he was.  A featured channel – vlogging about the social media classroom.

I recommend subscribing through Miro or the RSS feed to see why he’s starting this classroom and the tools he’s included in it.

Technorati tags: howard rheingold, social media, web2.0, vlog