Twitter and Web 2.x and Email

I read something in the Times yesterday which I thought was quite profound. The Russian guy who just bought 2% of Facebook for $200m (just ponder those numbers for a moment... ) said something about email, he reckoned in future we'd be using web 2.0 sites for communication and not email. I don't quite get what he meant but I can imagine a world without an email account,we'd just have a zillion IDs on different websites and correspond with people inside the applications I suppose. I'm not sure if he's right but its an interesting and provocative thought.

Time

Is flowing away at an alarming speed..! We've managed to hold two meetings in 2009 and some progress has been made with the centile application but not online yet. The problem, I guess, is that we have day jobs and families and other things to do. What we really need is to be 15 or 20 years younger and have nothing better to do... :)

Visualisation

The latest Welcome Screen to MediBlog.com:

Well the first bits of the first application have been created in proof-of-concept on a development machine. This will allow MediBlog users to create "Clients" and then maintain some data for them. The first scenario available to users will be for Parents and community practitioners to maintain some Child Development metrics and then view them again the WHO standards.

This has required the use of WHO data (thanks!) and some of the clever tools delivered to the users of the latest releases of MyEclipseIDE.

Progress

Well we have a bank account, and it has some money in it - to pay for the hosting of our new site at http://www.mediblog.com with Rimu hosting. The site is now up & running and anyone is free to create a user ID and have a look around. There really isn't much to see yet but if you can figure out how to join a community (I'd recommend MediBlog Central!) then on the private pages of your community membership you can add a Mail portlet to collect emails from other providers. You will also notice that Chat is available too. We have some investigation to see exactly how that relates but it has been tested and works well.

The next few steps are the real "New" ones, we're putting together the "requirements" of the first Java application so that the "MVC" stuff all hangs together nicely in a discrete portlet. Watch this space!

Art?

Very soon it will all be about Branding. At some point we need a proper artist to create the images and colours that best convey our message. This does remind me a bit of Google's initial logos which were obviously done in MS Word Art. The current logo on www.mediblog.co.uk was done with Visio and Paint. Which is why it's so awful.

dev url

try mediblog.co.uk

Server Time (Again)

Momentous day: today I ordered a Virtual Private Server from Rimu Hosting for Mediblog/Medys. How cool is that? well not very - all you need is a few dollars - the rest of the project is the hard work, eh?