Tag Archives: reuse

reusable content

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about web services vs. web sites and librarians as content creators. I’ve been excited by the fact that non-techies can push content to the web thanks to 2.0 principles. I’ve been amazed at the rapid development of facebook applications, netvibes widgets, and google gadgets.
This is particularly important [...]

widgets, gadgets, and toys, oh my!

Amazon has announced an incredibly easy way for webfolk to put pieces of Amazon’s content on their pages. For example, here is a search widget:
Amazon.com Widgets
You can create all kinds of widgets here.
People who know my web interests know that I believe the internet is changing. It’s no longer [...]