SIGOSSEE / JOIN

I've decided it is time to start practicing what I preach. In the Report on Standards and Architectures I strongly advocated loosely-coupled architectures based on 'small / loose' standards. In the months since I wrote the first report Draft, the web had come a long way towards making it possible for all users to participate in 'small-loose' services. (There is even a new word gaining currency to describe this movement: "Web2.0").

Two vivid and immediate examples of the 'service-oriented', Web2.0, 'small-loose' way are photo-sharing via the Flickr service and shared bookmarking via services like del.icio.us (there are plenty of particular links into these below).

I don't have time to go into the benefits here, but I'll try to do some posting about it in the site soon. In the meantime, you can find some relevant materials collected in my own del.icio.us shared bookmarks, especially the tags 'resources/introductory' and 'web2.0/publicity'. For examples, see the 'Web2.0 tag' ...Though almost all my bookmarks are on this topic so you may want to open the bundles of tags there and explore ( especially by looking at the other users' bookmarks revealed through the 'and NNN others' links shown beside bookmarks collected by more than one user).

Step 1 for our own ossite was to make a Flickr account to handle the photos for meetings, etc. I made an account this morning, and have also made a new flickr group for pooling together sigossee-re;ated images from multiple members (that way you can post to sigossee's photos through your own flickr account if you have one). I've put up all the photos from our own meetings and organised them a bit by 'set' and tag.

Some links:

• Our photos on Flickr
• Arhus meeting photos as a slideshow
• Athens meeting photos as a slideshow

I'll be posting soon about plans to bring service-oriented shared bookmark collection into the site ( complementing or replacing our current 'blogit' resource-collection ).