BlogTalk 2009 (6th International Social Software Conference) – Call for Proposals – September 1st and 2nd – Jeju, Korea

BlogTalk 2009 The 6th Int’l Conf. on Social Software September 1st and 2nd, 2009 Jeju Island, Korea Overview Following the international success of the last five BlogTalk events, the next BlogTalk – to be held in Jeju Island, Korea on September 1st and 2nd, 2009 – is continuing with its focus on social software, while [...]

FOWA Dublin 2009: Robin Christopherson (AbilityNet) – “Apps for All in a Web 2.0 World”

The second talk I attended at FOWA Dublin 2009 was given by Robin Christopherson from UK organisation AbilityNet, focussing on the accessibility of web applications. AbilityNet is a UK charity that deals with disabilities and technology (carrying out accessibility audits, disabled user testing, and web design). As well as looking at the Web, they assess [...]

Intel releases mashup extension for Firefox

Developers at Intel Corporation‘s research lab at Berkeley have created the Mash Maker extension for Firefox. The blog post about Mash Maker says that the extension enables mashups to become part of your normal browsing experience – the aim being that mashups can be used by anyone, not just techies. The Mash Maker toolbar displays [...]

“Social Media” extension for Firefox

97th Floor, a US-based SEO firm, have recently released what they call their “Social Media” extension for Firefox, which adds a new toolbar to the bottom of your browser window for fast posting of URLs to Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and del.icio.us. The toolbar can also display stats if a page has already been submitted to [...]