WEB-2 ‘The Buzz is Over’

some of you guys who are working with explory, you should have notice the funny games that explory plays when you write a long sentence, well it just pushs the side bar down the bottom of the page which has been making feel like a donky, i have discovered the problem and fixed it. make sure that you dont exceed the box when writing.cheers

With the help of General Andrew Schonenberger, I have manageged to have music on my blog, it is not the easy thing when you look at it but actually it is bloody easy. 

1- you down the anarchy media player plug-in.

2- Upload it on your blog

3- write a post and ——– link one of the words or sentence with any url e.g

(http://downloads.oreilly.com/network/2007/02/14/web2-miller-audio13.mp3) 

4- bang you are done 

 play

Well I’ve had the capability to do this for quite some time, but I didn’t bother before now, as I didn’t really want a load of pages no one ever looked at before about viruses, security news and so on as now I can just use my customisable Google homepage to keep an eye on those.

With the advent of the new kid on the block yahoo.com, comes some interesting new RSS feeds with issues/news/blog posts very pertinent to this region, and therefore to me, and more than likely my readers so I shall use this as an example.

Step 1: Get & Install the RSS feedList Plugin

First things first, you need to get the plugin. You can do so here Wordpress Feedlist Plugin (formerly rssLinkedList).

If you are familar with the Wordpress plugin system you should be able to install the plugin with no problems.

If you aren’t basically you need to upload the plugin the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, then go the admin panel and look for the plugins section (/wp-admin/plugins.php).

In here you’ll see a new plugin which is not activated yet, click the “Activate” link, the block should then turn green and the plugin is active!

Step 2: Creating the page for the RSS Feed

Next thing you need to do is in the Wordpress admin panel go to Write - Write Page, and create a new page.

You can call it whatever you like, depending on what you are planning to do with it, Feeds, My News or in my case my sports as it’s for feeds from sports.yahoo.com

Step 3: Adding the RSS Feed and Testing it

After you’ve created the page you can add the content, in my case the content of the page is:

For EACH RSS Feed you wish to add, the options are quite self explanatory, there are more such as adding custom tags before and after each item in the list, by default there is <li> before and </li> after each entry.

After you’ve saved and published the page, you can check to see if it’s worked.

Go back the main page of your blog and check to see if the link is there, on mine it’s as I wish, at the bottom of the navigation list titled my sports

This is wow, yahoo pipes is just the begining of people having control over everything they want to hear and see, it has been just good t0 see it embeded in my blog and believe that it is really working, but without the help of this guy Andrew, I would have been having hard time.

You can mix, mash, combine, and reduce a variety of feeds from various social 

bookmarking and networking 

sources to get the news you can use, even by specific topics and keywords.

I’m going to poke into this to see how I can increase my feed coverage of 

specific items and eliminate all of the feed nonsense I seem to get right now.

Have you used this? Is it working for you? Have you come up with some 

interesting customized feeds with this? Share! 

look and see how it is done. 

Have you ever wondered how hard it would be to automatically zip and unzip archives with ASP.NET? It may be easier than you think thanks to the powerful SharpZipLib open source library. This library provides you with a number of easy to use tools for working with Zip (and GZip, Tar, and BZip2, for that matter) archives in .NET code that make the task of creating and expanding compressed archives relatively easy.

Today we’re going to look at how you can use RadUpload and SharpZipLib to upload a Zip archive and then expand it on the server. For our scenario, let’s pretend that we want to allow users to upload a zip with photos that we’ll then automatically expand into an images directory. In future posts, we’ll look at how we can do the inverse, taking files on the server and creating a new zip file that users can download.

Step 1: Setting up RadUpload

RadUpload has come a long way in its short revision history, and it is now very easy to just drop on your page and go. So we’ll do just that- drag and drop a RadUpload control onto a page with a RadProgressManager and RadProgressArea that will be used to convey upload progress for larger file uploads. The markup should look something like this:

for more visit  Todd Anglin’s blog 

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What Is Web 2.0 as explained by  Tim O’Reilly

The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions. Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum’s rush, the real success stories show their strength, and there begins to be an understanding of what separates one from the other.The concept of “Web 2.0″ began with a conference brainstorming session between O’Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O’Reilly VP, noted that far from having “crashed”, the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What’s more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as “Web 2.0″ might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.In the year and a half since, the term “Web 2.0″ has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there’s still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless marketing buzzword, and others accepting it as the new conventional wisdom.This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0.In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example:

The list went on and on. But what was it that made us identify one application or approach as “Web 1.0″ and another as “Web 2.0″? (The question is particularly urgent because the Web 2.0 meme has become so widespread that companies are now pasting it on as a marketing buzzword, with no real understanding of just what it means. The question is particularly difficult because many of those buzzword-addicted startups are definitely not Web 2.0, while some of the applications we identified as Web 2.0, like Napster and BitTorrent, are not even properly web applications!) We began trying to tease out the principles that are demonstrated in one way or another by the success stories of web 1.0 and by the most interesting of the new applications. 

The rhetoric surrounding Web 2.0 infrastructures presents certain cultural claims about media, identity, and technology. It suggests that everyone can and should use new Internet technologies to organize and share information, to interact within communities, and to express oneself. It promises to empower creativity, to democratize media production, and to celebrate the individual while also relishing the power of collaboration and social networks.

But Web 2.0 also embodies a set of unintended consequences, including the increased flow of personal information across networks, the diffusion of one’s identity across fractured spaces, the emergence of powerful tools for peer surveillance, the exploitation of free labor for commercial gain, and the fear of increased corporatization of online social and collaborative spaces and outputs.

Hello everyone, am trying as much as i can to make this simple for you, now you can chat with anytime, hoopsI mean when am on line.