This month it is 10 years ago that Netscape had its IPO. This month's Wired (www.wired.com) has a special on the subject, looking at key figures from each of the 10 years since. It is incredible to realize how much things have changed in 10 years. But developments are still coming along at internet speed. Since my last post in March (shame on me...) podcasting has taken off in an incredible way. Amongst other things, Apple's decision to have support for podcasts build into iTunes and thus making podcasts easily available to all those iPod owners out there contributes to podcasts' sudden popularity.
Something that has been going on a little longer is photo-blogging, with Flickr (www.flickr.com; recently acquired by Yahoo) as its prime example. At Flickr people can share their pictures with the rest of the world, adding tags and thus making them searchable for others. Of course you'll find quite a few party pics at Flickr, but it is incredible to see what some artistic types (or just much better photographers than me..) come up with. Not only will people be able to record their lives and the world around them in writing (blogs), speech and sound (podcasts) but also in images (photo-blogging).
It will sure be interesting to see what Wired's special in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the (commercial) internet will look like...
Postcript: I am still debating whether or not I should buy myself a digital camera and register for a Flickr account. The film that's in my analog Canon IXUS is over 2 years old, carrying photos from some rowing events and a holiday in the Western desert of Egypt in December 2003. Hence, I am not sure whether I would suddenly start taking pictures more often to share them with others. How rational, don't you think?
Something that has been going on a little longer is photo-blogging, with Flickr (www.flickr.com; recently acquired by Yahoo) as its prime example. At Flickr people can share their pictures with the rest of the world, adding tags and thus making them searchable for others. Of course you'll find quite a few party pics at Flickr, but it is incredible to see what some artistic types (or just much better photographers than me..) come up with. Not only will people be able to record their lives and the world around them in writing (blogs), speech and sound (podcasts) but also in images (photo-blogging).
It will sure be interesting to see what Wired's special in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the (commercial) internet will look like...
Postcript: I am still debating whether or not I should buy myself a digital camera and register for a Flickr account. The film that's in my analog Canon IXUS is over 2 years old, carrying photos from some rowing events and a holiday in the Western desert of Egypt in December 2003. Hence, I am not sure whether I would suddenly start taking pictures more often to share them with others. How rational, don't you think?
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