I just did my regular good-morning-rss-reading with a cup of fine black tea in my hand. In the »design« section of my RSS reader I found a great article on the A List Apart website. It is called: Web 3.0.

I think I give you the excerpt as well to tease you even more to read it, it goes like that:

»Web 2.0 is a fresh-faced starlet on the intertwingled longtail to the disruptive experience of tomorrow. Web 3.0 thinks you are so 2005.«

The article is a must-read for everyone interested in the current and upcoming webstandards. It is dealing so well with all this Web 2.0 hysteria by taking it apart and making a »little« fun of it, but in a very decent way.

Have fun reading!

Links:

• The Web 3.0 Article
• A List Apart – For people who make websites

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web, ajax

I don’t know for sure if mentioned this before so I am going to write some words about my favourite Content Management System. The reason I like textpattern is its simplicity and its flexibility. You can do tons of stuff by combining small modules that are simple to use and to understand. It is well documented and very light-weighted. Best of all: It is free!

I tried dozens of CMS and most of them either had a lack of features or a GUI which wouldn’t allow you to control all the features easily. I was so glad to find textpattern although I think it isn’t suitable for large corporate websites. Anyway, so far nobody asked me to do a large corporate website and I think I wouldn’t like it either. With texpattern you don’t have to dig yourself through all the glory details to get it running but if you want to dig, play and customise it you can do it, most of the time without even seeing a piece of PHP code.

It works great for blogs or small to medium websites. There are tons of plugins, mods, tutorials, and themes available so you don’t have to start from scratch.

Thank you textpattern for saving time and aggravation!

Links:

• Textpattern Weblog
• Textpattern Forum
• Find and compare your CMS
• More Textpattern Templates

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web, cms

I had a lot of fun last night at the CCCB. We talked till early morning about all kinds of stuff. Pavel also showed me the video of art+com’s project called Terravision. It is pretty much like Google Earth except it was done in 1995 and had a way cooler interface. art+com now released the original video from 1995 and i decided to send it out via bittorrent with their permission so everybody can get a picture of that project. They spent millions of dollars for this project, nowadays this kind of application runs on nearly every computer and you can get it for free from google.

Have fun watching, it is really amazing to see!

Download: Terravision Video