Yesterday I started using a website to share photos. I happened to have a couple of photo's uploaded to Yahoo Photos - but they are shutting down that old service, and moving to all users & photos Flickr - and offering an unlimited account for those that move - good news: I hope My ISP will be able to deal with the uploads over the next few days/weeks.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/munawar for the photos - there an RSS feed too.
I've been using another 2.0 site/service recently - del.icio.us t o try an manage/ share my bookmarks - I think I'll need to start using Digg as well.
Keeping bookmarks on the "server side", or "cloud" seems obvious, but then I've used yahoo's toolbar for that for a while - the ability to share these bookmarks, get some 'hand-chosen' URLs, make recommendations to your fiends (Network), and subscribe to keywords is interesting.
I probably am in the habit of storing too much in the way of bookmarks - but tagging , and being able to search them helps.
These networking/2.0 services are all very transparent - e.g. If I browse and bookmark a site whilst at work it is very obvious. I see no harm in this in my case - Sadly the division between 'work' and 'personal' time is increasingly blurred - but it could trouble some.
I've added some Google ads to this my blog site - not so much to earn any cash - just to see learn a little more about how easy this has become, and how effective, and context sensitive advertising can be. BTW I've now earned $0.02 from it! Must declare that on my tax return :-) - It’s a while since I had to do a US one - I hope the UK US tax treaty still holds.
This led me on to include some Google analytics, and other web-site analytics tools to the blog.
Google have been handing out free £30 'vouchers' encouraging people to run ad campaigns - I'll have to give it a try !
I hear the deep pockets of Google are going to stretch to parts of the US EM Spectrum that can go through walls (700 Mhz?) - though that rumour seems to have quietened of late. If Google purchase this, and turn on all that dark fibre that they also, apparently, have, the Telco's (mobile/land/and perhaps even VIOP) and ISP's better start thinking about a new business model !
View Munawarali "Jaff" Jaffer's profile
