PHILAFICATION

Tag: web 2.0

Should We Be Offended?

And by we, I mean our current society that relies on the internet 24/7? We google, check Wikipedia and surf up dictionary.com every single time we need to check a fact or look up the meaning of a word. Memorizing? Why bother! There’s the internet for that, right?
Today’s hush-hush standards suggest that reading a book [...]

Ozapft is’

My association with the attached picture explained as follows: “Ozapft is” is German dialect (Bavarian) for “es ist angezapft” meaning you just tapped a keg of beer. Phonetic pronunciation help should look like this: awww-ts-uh-pft-ease. Thus this is the ultimate motto for the Oktoberfest, I figured this little bit of information qualifies for a schnelles [...]

Looking For A Gmail-ish “Select All” Button?

There are certain signs that can tell you whether or not you’re in a healthy condition or relation to something you like in life. Signs suggesting that you need to get over the Web 2.0 addiction of yours, to stop taking your online life too seriously and to get a life are listed in joyoftech.com’s [...]

Twitter Is Not Invincible

(+ Tutorial for Free Twitter Mac Client)
Shocking News: Twitter Is Not Invincible.
Twitter is one of these Web 2.0 services that has to struggle with a non-stop growing community and obviously has troubles keeping up the servers running the way they should. Tisk. Tisk.
It happened a lot lately. Twitter is down. That’s what she said. [...]

Why You Should Show Your Tweets On Your Blog

Twitter is an online application that allows to display micro blog entries originally dealing with the important question in today’s society: What are you doing at this moment?

Speech Bubbles For The Rest Of US

If you’re into comics and love browsing through old photo albums on your computer, you will probably love Bubblesnaps (bubblesnaps.com). This web 2.0-ish service can take old shots to a whole new level. So see what I came up with when I was skimming thru my iPhoto Library.

The Joy Of Geek Culture

Being a geek can be a pain in the throat during high school, but isn’t it a thing of beauty to possess some sort of geeky tendencies — in real life? Well, today I’d love to draw your attention to this hilarious comic series, The Joy Of Tech. Picking up recent Apple and Web news [...]

Exactly, ‘Tis Web 2.0

Web 2.0. Are we waiting for the bubble to burst. – I know that the average user will not give a shit thought about what is presented in the following video. I just want to call out loud that I do give a thought about it and I am a tiny bit concerned about it. [...]