2k5. dotone was born in november 2005 . Login Inn expanded and still to grow bigger. Some wins, some losses, and some long idle moments. Some fast days, and some other slow and empty. 2005, good bye!
The Web2.0 band-wagon
2005 is/was the year Web2.0 era and the social software revolution kicked off. A big number of usable and useful apps and services floated up.
Okay, I know, another sticky buzzword. I know everyone’s complaining about it. But it is just another era for web, RESPECT.
Tagging, another new term used for categorising and labeling is another additions to web.
Hmm, let’s see. del.icio.us , bloglines , and digg are the most important services that I subscribed to in 2005. del.icio.us the best social bookmarking service which was acquired by Yahoo! some days ago is my favorite, if you aint’ registered there then you’re just wasting your bookmarking moments or loosing your bookmarks during backups.
I wish happened in 2005…
* I wish there were enough web groups and events for web designers and developers in Dubai/UAE.
- I wish website design “copy & pasting” at least reduced.
- It’s painful to watch agencies doing lame and minimal work for clients and painting web-design with black and weighing it cheap. I wish this reduced.
- I wish some individuals got some publicity instead of only their agencies or studios. Artists have no stages to appear on! Dubai, pay attention!
One website that can change your mind!
Ma most played in 2005
- Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc.
- Coldplay – Speed of Sound
- Lenny Kravitz – Mr. Cab Driver
Hopes and wishes for 2006
- IE 7 final, on top of my waiting list.
- Windows Vista, although now I use Mac OSX for work, I’m still waiting for it even though it’s a copy of Tiger & Panther. It’s Windows!
- Longer life for laptop batteries.
- WiFi hot spots all over cities. UAE’s small. Doable, I think?!
- Etisalat eases on website blocking ( flickr is still blocked! )
- Agencies lay back a bit and stop just becomming sales offices and outsourcing web design and branding work. Please! programming and development is okay, but Design?
- Jesse James Garrett visits Dubai to present a User Experience workshop.
- Coldplay concert in Dubai.
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2 Comments
1 Ali Bahari wrote:
So youre ending the year ey? thats for 2005. a hell of a year, did I tell you I changed path to Photography and its been exciting for now. My 2006 resolution, gonna get a blog up and running, gimme a hand will you? Happy holidays
2 Anil wrote:
Jesse James Garrett? u crazy dot?
Coldplay might come down though
i wanna get a blog up in 2006
i wanna learn AJAX
i wanna learn samba, salsa, and tango