Taxonomies and their users

Interesting how James Kelway's User-centered taxonomies cites the way users tag websites on del.icio.us He also suggests examining competitor websites and actively avoid their mistakes - obvious, but amazing how that never occurs to constructors.

Series on Web 2.0 applications

Good series on Web 2.0 applications is available from EDUCAUSE. The series is "7 things you should know about" and the 7 points are compressed to two A4 sides. Each deals with the knowledge training potentila of the application.

Delicious

Glad to discover a new way of displaying links to frequently used websites. But the font size is big - why? Scrolling is such a fiddle and waste of time. Also the page cannot be configured as easily as Netvibes pages. Would be useful to be able to display an image of the website as a hyperlink.