Friday is here, and here are a few links you might enjoy:
* Google can track what you search for and even though it seems big-brotherish, I have found it quite useful. Once you sign up, any search you do on Google will be tracked, and you can search through your searches (“What was the name of that coffee shop I looked up last weekend?”) To boot, it has some fun stats and trending so you can see when you do most of your googling (see picts below). http://www.google.com/searchhistory
* http://www.flickr.com is a “Web 2.0″ site that let’s you share photos. What I like most about it is that it is really easy: after I import photos from my camera, I drop a few in an email and send it to my flickr email address. The photos are then automatically posted to my page without ever needing to open a browser. You can also get the photos via a personal RSS feed, which is a nice touch. Picts of my kids are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/edstrom/
* So what is Web 2.0? Think web applications that get better the more they are used. Tim O’Reilly originally coined the term in 2004: “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them.” See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2
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