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Geek Culture / Web 2.0 Mini-survey

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 14:11 Edited at: 29th Sep 2006 14:17
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Being a forum full of techie geeks - I was wondering what propotion of you are Web 2.0 aware.

Personally, I'm a webmaster by day (and pretty much by night too) and one of the things I'm interested in is how many people actually USE these new web services such as:
* RSS Feeds (this forum has one! Who subscribes? Who Aggregates?)
* Del.icio.us
* Digg.com
* Podcasts (Listen / make)
* Other services like Google Earth/Maps, Google Base, Google Personalised Homepage, Flickr, etc

Just curious...

EDIT: Btw.. I user RSS, Digg, Podcasts (listen) and quite a few google services...

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 14:27
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RSS - Yes, every day. I run Feed Demon and have stacks of RSS feeds in there.

Deli - Nope, I have an account, never use it.

Digg - Absolutely! It's a great quick fix for (mostly) interesting stuff, and some of the best flame wars I've ever read

Podcasts - For sure. I love the Geek Brief show, and subscribe to a few others.

I also use Flickr quite a bit, and Google Personalised Home Page, but that's about it.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 14:52
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* RSS Feeds (this forum has one! Who subscribes? Who Aggregates?). Not really. Suppose it would come in handy if I was interested in more things
* Del.icio.us
Never heard of it... sounds interesting... so does it map to IE/FF? I mean I was thinking of some kind of global bookmark thing a while back (eg. change/add/delete bookmark in IE and the same thing happens in FF, and in IE and FF at your work, and at your 2nd PC etc) but was too lazy to program it myself
* Digg.com
Seen it (mainly when Googling). Never actively looked at it though
* Podcasts (Listen / make) - Rarely. Never make them
* Other services like Google Earth/Maps, Google Base, Google Personalised Homepage, Flickr, etc - Google Earth of course. Useful for visualising an area before you visit it, plus for looking at your own car And of course that bloke in NYC who put a "Marry Me" proposal on top of his house. I use PhotoBucket instead of Flickr when I can't be bothered to use my own website (and save bandwidth). Um... quite like that Pandora music preference site.

Don't really use the newer stuff much. Have used the net since 1991, so am a bit old school with things. Still pine for Mosiac...

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Tinkergirl
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 15:17
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I suppose I'm a bit old fashioned, really.

I have my blog, which has an RSS feed on it - apparently some people subscribe to that, which is nice. I sometimes check to see my incoming links on technorati. I don't subscribe to any RSS feeds myself.

Delicious - I have an account, I never use it. Just checked to see if my blog was on it. Happy that it was, somewhere.

Digg - I hear of it, I know it's like the new Slashdot in terms of webpage bandwidth death. But I don't go there, and I don't digg any pages.

Podcasts - nope. Don't listen, don't make. I don't listen to much these days - read more.

I use Flickr quite a lot though, I've put photos up, and I've put photos in a couple of groups. Love the tagging, and the little rectangular hints you can put on them. Great.

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spooky
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 18:01
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I'm also a webmaster by day but it's amazing how far behind I am with all this stuff. Maybe because of my age (rapidy approaching the big 40) I am just not into all this new fangled stuff.

RSS - I know of them but have never used them
DELI - never heard of it and can't see any reason to ever use it
DIGG - seen it in Googling for stuff but never used it
PODCASTS - never bothered. Don't have an ipod or any other portable music/video player, so no use to me.
FLICKR - never used
GOOGLE EARTH/MAPS - certainly, will use it even more when they eventually put highres images of bits of the UK that are just a blurry mess at the minute. Google maps I really like because of the easiness of dragging the map around via AJAX.

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xtom
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 18:05
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I only visit those sites when someone posts a link of something interesting or funny on them. I don't visit them at all otherwize and for some reason find them kinda hard on the eyes when I do and not too easy to read. Maybe it's the amount of general content or maybe the color schemes/layout, I don't know, I only glance for a few seconds and then leave. Maybe I would stay viewing the site longer if it had more of a human touch to it ie. not so dynamicly generated looking. I haven't experimented with or subscribed to any rss feeds at all either. I guess I like the good old fashioned web sites and forums.


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Quote: "RSS Feeds (this forum has one! Who subscribes? Who Aggregates?)"

Of no use to me.

Quote: "Del.icio.us"

Nope

Quote: "Digg.com"

Nope

Quote: "Podcasts (Listen / make)"

Nope

Quote: "Other services like Google Earth/Maps, Google Base, Google Personalised Homepage, Flickr, etc"

Used Google Earth once, just to see what the fuss was about...

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the_winch
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 18:50 Edited at: 29th Sep 2006 18:52
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* RSS Feeds. Don't use them, perhaps if they where provided by all sites I would.
* Del.icio.us / Digg.com. Don't use either.
* Podcasts (Listen / make). I listen to one occasionally.

I use google maps occasionally and like the interface appart from when you get that occasional square that just won't load. Gmaps Pedometer is also pretty good. The big problem I have with it is the map data. It's quite car centric and not very detailed.

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Jeku
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 19:28
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* RSS Feeds (this forum has one! Who subscribes? Who Aggregates?)

- I use it everyday at work. Handy for knowing when new articles arrive on my favourite news sites.

* Del.icio.us

- Useful everyday. I save all my links to it by category, and use a Firefox extension to make them appear in my browser like regular bookmarks. Very cool. I visit the main delicious site when I'm looking for interesting new sites.

* Digg.com

- Never been.

* Podcasts (Listen / make)

- Everyday. Listening to comedy shows (like the Ricky Gervais show) and talk radio. Sometimes listen to video game interviews.

* Other services like Google Earth/Maps, Google Base, Google Personalised Homepage, Flickr, etc

- Google Maps ALL the time (especially when looking for directions). I also use the Google Calendar for scheduling everything.


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mm0zct
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 20:22
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nope except for the odd multimap and occasionally google earth but it's near useless in scotland. i occasionally assign the rss feed from this site to the rss thing in the vista sidebar when i can stand to have the sidebar active (yes i know you can hide it and leave any gadgets lying around but you can't stretch gadgets like the rss feed to make them longer which is annying)

basically.. no i don't use anything there

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Dazzag
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Posted: 30th Sep 2006 00:04
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Quote: "when they eventually put highres images of bits of the UK that are just a blurry mess at the minute"
I can see my car in Google Earth. Not bad.

Cheers

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Steve J
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Posted: 1st Oct 2006 00:13
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I use the new nasa prog for earth views.

http://phoenixophelia.com
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PowerSoft
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Posted: 1st Oct 2006 00:26
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What prog's that Steve?

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Steve J
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"World Wind"

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