R2Integrated

By Page Sands on 7/15/2008 4:33 AM

 (Part One of a series)
 
One of the things that I like do when analyzing a Web service is looking at its architecture. Not so much how the engineers have designed the databases or chose a programming framework, but the architecture of the published information.

For example, I know that blogs are unique in how they organize content.  Posts are published in reverse chronological order and sorted by categories.  Readers can leave comments and trackbacks signal that someone else found the post interesting enough to write about it.

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By Page Sands on 6/13/2008 9:55 AM

I recently attended the Future of the Internet conference at The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. I wanted to share a couple thoughts about how the conference used social software to keep everyone organized and connected.

I like how the Berkman Center provided conference attendees with a directory of social tools and related tags that we could use to connect with one another.  After the sessions h ... Read More »