Web Development and Technology Blog

My cousin, Glen, had the idea to create a Wiki. We recently suffered a loss in our family and one of the ways people dealt with it was by using the blog of the person who had died, so this seemed like a natural extension.

Now, outside of Wikipedia, I have yet to see how exactly this would be useful, and definitely have yet to see how people are using it in the enterprise; but in this case I think it could be a very good idea.

The site isn’t the best and the rich text editor needs work, but if it gets my not-all-tech-savvy family to post info, it must be doing something right.

If you are interested here is the Pearson family wiki.

(BTW, I am putting this in my Web 2.0 category – I am still somewhat undecided about what that is, is it the technology (RSS, Ajax, RIA) or is the community-stuff (Blogs, MySpace, Wikis)..feel free to give me your thoughts.)

My wife has started putting up pictures on my site (you can see here), so that everyone can see them. But I noticed that some were big and she had so many it was a pain for her to edit each one individually. I had recently found this site Picnik.com and so I went back there to look at it. Not only does it work great, but they have now added the ability to get a Firefox extension or IE add-in (which I haven’t tried).

The extension makes it so easy to right click, send the picture and edit it. Now if only we didn’t have to save and re-upload, but hey, much easier to use than launching Photoshop for every picture.