Jeff McNeill

The Problem with Wikipedia

Posted in web, wiki on Mar 4th, 2007

Windows Vista and Office 2007 Launch: Important?

Posted in applications, web on Dec 2nd, 2006

As announced by Anne over on Web Worker Daily: Windows Vista and Office 2007 have launched.

I am a former MCSE who took the first MS Windows95 class in San Francisco (there were six of us attending), and have rolled out NT 4.0, 2000, and XP. I don’t see any difference between the launch of Vista [...]

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Updates to Mozilla Firefox Extensions

Posted in web on Nov 26th, 2006

Dear reader, I have made the following changes to my FF Extensions page:

Removed

Viamatic foXpose, shows thumbnails of all tabs Performancing, good blog client Undo Close Tab, in case of the accidental click… SessionSaver, caches sessions on browser exit

Added

Tab Mix Plus, essentially replaces all but the Performancing extension that I removed, this is a swiss army knife of tabs, [...]

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Web2.0 Video goodies

Posted in video, web on Oct 15th, 2006

Yes, everyone knows that video on the web is attracting a lot of attention, especially after Google announced its acquisition of YouTube for $1.65bn. However, there is more on the way (and that has already taken place). In late September, Yahoo acquired Jumpcut. Jumpcut is freakin’ awesome, and everyone should try out the open beta. [...]

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Ingredients for Web 2.0 success

Posted in humor, web on Oct 14th, 2006

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Updates to FireFox Extensions page

Posted in opensource, web on Oct 1st, 2006

Updates to the FireFox Extensions page now include updated links to a set of useful FireFox extensions and scripts.

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The Internet in 2020, Pew Report

Posted in policy, web, wireless on Sep 25th, 2006

Rik notes that Pew has released a second future of the Internet report.

Scenario 5 is about virtual reality addition. This is a silly concept (as many respondents have noted), and will become the fodder of luddite television, as the old vs. new media battle continues. Remember the scourge that calculators were to become, crippling our [...]

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Beta LibX Firefox toolbar extension for UH Manoa library patrons

Posted in web on Aug 19th, 2006

A version of the popular LibX toolbar is now in beta version for UH Manoa library patrons. For more information and to test it out visit the Firefox Extension page.

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Impact of the web on eLearning and the Blackboard patent dispute

Posted in education, legal, opensource, web on Aug 19th, 2006

At Read/Write Web there is a nice discussion on how the web has been a particularly important technology for eLearning (and I would claim for learning, and in many ways). However, it only tantalizes. There are so many initiatives, which originate from or attempt to marry various technologies such as digital libraries, course management systems, [...]

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