Other than Web 2.0 tools (like what I implemented in 2005), of course there are also Web 2.0 community websites. To some, it’s really hard to understand what is Web 2.0 and why all the fuss about it. Here is a very good and important (you know why by the end) video about Web 2.0 … all in 5 minutes !! Enjoy !!
Category: Technology
Web Idea: PISS Part 2
Weeks ago I requested a PISS to help me to schedule my appointments with mobile phone and finally someone made it !! The solution composed of the mobile phone (which has GPS equipped and appointment details recorded), then connect to a watch (via Bluetooth) to tell you the time … Great stuff !!
Resources : Just in Time Watch
How To – Lightbox
Well well it may sound easy to implement the Lightbox photo album, but of course I think you all don’t mind some bits of the implementation details:
- First, download the Lightbox Javascript, unzip it, upload to your server …
- In the Lightbox /js/ directory, check the file lightbox.js, search the Configuration section. Ensure the paths to the two images are correct.
- In the Lightbox /css/ directory, check the file lightbox.css, ensure the paths to the image files are correct.
- Now back to the blog tool, find out the tiny-mce-xxx.js (xxx is your blog tool), probably in the js directory, and make sure the “a” element (i.e. the anchor tag) includes “rel” (i.e. the relationship attribute) in the line of extended_valid_elements. That change make the tinymce accepts “rel” in anchor tag (by default, tinymce will remove this attribute).
- Then, amend the template of your blog (in my case, the header.template) to include the few script tags and link tag (as specified in the Lightbox help page). That change includes extra js files to your blog pages – i.e. it will essentially slow down all the pages … sorry.
- Last step, create your blog post as usual, but don’t forget to include the “rel” attribute in the anchor tag, as in the Lightbox help page.
That’s it !!
When Flower Meets Web 2.0
Flowers are beautiful, especially when it is presented nicely with this new Web 2.0 photo slide tool (Lightbox with Prototype). Click the photo thumbnails and you will see why.
All pictures were taken in 2004 Flower Show. For the step-by-step instructions on mashing a blog tool with this Web 2.0 effect, check out here.
Web Idea: What The Duck
It’s not my own web idea, but the whattheduck.net illustrate one web idea that I found very interesting …
- First the site, pretty much like a “new media”, is run by Aaron Johnson. This site hosts the Comic Strip “What the Duck” (a photographer), and you won’t find it in other traditional newspapers, magazines. In other words, the website is the only media that you can see the strips.
- However, unlike other comic strip web sites, you can copy, download the strips to your site, blog, forum, newsletter etc. Royalty free, quite a breakthru model.
- And somehow, each of the strips has no caption / title. Instead, viewers (i.e. site visitors) can send in their suggested caption of the strip as comments (This “tradition” began from strip #49). And Aaron will pick the best one (from his point of view) and apply to the strip. I think it’s a new and novel way to let the site vistors to participate in a comic strip.
- Then, how Aaron make money ? You can buy all kinds of goods from this site, all with the “What the Duck” logo or theme – T-Shirts, baseball hats, clock, badge etc. etc.
The only complaint I have about this site is … mac.com is really slow.
Anyway, not bad, not bad … I hope you enjoy the strips and that good idea as much as I do.
M.Y. Lessons Learnt 