“Wow! Cool!” That about sums up the awesomeness of this visual ajax development thingamajigger, called WaveMaker. I’m all into being a great developer and not using WYSIWYG’s but sometimes… It’s just more better to be able to use tools to get acquainted with a technology, rather than cracking a book open or browsing site tutorials.

So, for me? This is good stuff. I learn by example, and use crutches like this to do just that. Get things done, and learn cool stuff! I mean, let’s be real about this one - if you can learn while producing, you’ll learn faster and push limits farther than just pumping out a Hello, World application from some book you found on Amazon… Well, at least that’s my take on it.

As you may guess, I’ve just finished installing this application - because - even though it’s not Web 2.0… it’s more a means of making Web 2.0 radicalness than it is a website. Anyhow, my first impressions - literally - are “Holy f**k this is COOL!” - mainly because, to my surprise, the application - after installation - opened in… Firefox! It is … browser based! This should make browser compatibility a breeze!

It’s available for Windows, and LINUX - sorry MAC people, you’ll have to use this via Parallels or whatever you people do these days. Anyway, you’ll have to use it to believe how rad it is - I just wanted to share the cool stuff. Go get’r!

Good old fashioned, FeedBurner-killing fun… FriendFeed is pretty, useful, very functional, and (if you don’t have it) has to be the next step in remarkably neato spaghetto coolness for your social media collection of rad.

Features? Well -

• The “Recommended” is pretty awesome, allowing you to check out the who of those you’re subscribed to and find out the they that are interesting to them.
• Stats - YAY!!! STATS! Who doesn’t love some stats? These stats are a little different than what you’d think though, they’re more… demographic than “how popular you are” and THAT is frigginfantasiculous!
• Imaginary? Yes.. You can make imaginary friends, but these ones are based on real life friends (or virtual friends with RSS feeds), that don’t YET have a FriendFeed, and you’d like to follow.

There are 28 features (as of this post, obviously) that are available to add in your FriendFeed stream to share with others… Here’s a short list:

• Twitter… duh! (oh… Pownce & Jaiku too)
• Blogs and Tumblr
• Flickr and Zoomr
• YouTube
• del.icio.us and Digg
• Your damn NetFlix queue
• Yelp
• LinkedIn
• Last.fm
• Etc… etc… etc

There’s also some handy tracking stuff, you can email your feed to yourself daily, and do other neato stuff, like… SIGN UP FOR IT! For those of you that have a twitter feed, blog, or pretty much any RSS output from your online life (that fits within the services rendered), get this thing, and be happy. It’s a great aggregator - simple, nice, clean way to share your findings, writings, postings, and listenings with people that care about stuff like that, like me… and yea.

Shameless Self Promotion: FriendFeed - nrek

The verdict is in, this project is all but underway, and we will be leveraging, virtually, solely, a blog to enter the world of Web 2.0 radicalness. I feel like we’re finally bringing the new millennium to the doorstep of an industry plagued with archaic means of marketing, and can’t wait - to be honest. Granted the traditional marketing folks are apprehensive about pioneering into this unknown world, and hence - the subject of this post.

There are a few things remember when blogging, I think:

1. Write meaningful content (I’ve said this before) - Make your blog worth reading, and for god’s sake don’t regurgitate something you found on another blog site. If you do, reference it, and write to it - in response to it, or add something to it…
2. Keep your content freshly updated with regularly awesome content. This will at least keep what readers you do have around for more reading.
3. Don’t just blog, interact. If someone comments, reply - and if someone uses a social bookmarking site to link to your story? By all means, seek those posts out and react to them as well.
4. Monitor sites like delicious and digg for your stuff, but don’t add your stories yourself, that’s just lame - and I’m a hypocrite to a degree in this regard, but that was back when I first launched, so shut up.
5. Read your own posts! If your post doesn’t make you happy - then you’re just puking words. If you can’t finish your own article? Delete the damn thing. If you’re not writing for you, than you’re not writing well.

Seems like common sense to me, but for companies using blogs to spread awareness online that they exist, there’s another few factors that are sought after - readers, exposure, monetization and marketing. I think that if you follow the 1 through 5 above? Well… those things will just happen, IF in-fact you’re producing something that’s worth paying attention too.

On Sociosophy, I try to write to make things interesting for me, and the readers I have - and damn it! I laugh at my own sentences sometimes, and I’m not ashamed to do so. So, for the sake of baby Jesus and the integrity of the blogosphere… If you don’t have what it takes to write stuff that makes me happy in pants? Stop typing, you’re ruining Al Gore’s Internet.

OK, I’ve plastered this on Twitter a few times, but this phone is exciting - the Nokia N95-3. There’s been a few things I’ve had to hunt and peck for as far as information about this handset, and since there’s plenty of Web 2.0 goodness slathered into this gizmo? It can be Sociosophized… Woohoo!

Features (there are a few):

• 8GB Micro-SD card from SanDisk? Works
• 5Mp Camera on the back
• 1.3Mp Camera on the front
• 3.5G (Nokia N95-3)
• Built-in approx 147MB memory
• Nokia PC Suite is awesome
  • Send SMS from your PC
  • Check files and sync contacts, appointments, etc
  • Backup your phone
  • Rip CD’s to your handset
  • Convert media files
  • Install applications and phone updates, etc
• Vibrate
• Use any sound file on your phone/memcard as a ring tone, alarm, or alert
• Built in FM Receiver
• Battery, LiIon… what ever happed to LiPoly?
• Phone as a Modem over 3.5G
• Video… Damn awesome quality
• Upload photos to Flickr or Vox
  • Check out Flickr/Vox feeds
  • Edit Flickr/Vox items existing on your account
• Customizable Profiles
• Hot-swappable MicroSD slot
• GPS with awesome Nokia Maps application
  • Voice directions
  • Stuff nearby you
  • Point to Point destination mapping
  • Location saving
  • Fav-ing
• Lifeblog: I’ll get to this
• Flash
  • That means YouTube
• Full and awesome web-browser
• Games etc
• SMS, E-mail… AND MMS

The items in bold are not on the iPhone, for those of you who know how much iHate that thing - and I may have even missed bolding a few, and I didn’t list all the features of the N95 either, so whatever, you get the idea.
The Web 2.0 Goodness:

1. Flickr/Vox (obviously)

The interaction is surprisingly awesome. All excitement about how great this phone is aside, the way the N95 works with Flickr/Vox creates a truly pleasant experience for getting images from your phone to your account.

Though with Flickr I wasn’t able to find a way to add photos to sets/collections, I imagine those secondary items could be handled by tagging photos appropriately before uploading. The tags are kept in a list on the phone as well, so once you use them, you can simply select them again from the list.

2. Lifeblog

I researched this phone since it was rumored to exist in 2006, and finally in 2008, here I have it, but never came across a single mention of Lifeblog… Very strange, I think. What is it? Every SMS, MMS, photo and video you submit or receive, gets put into a mini-lifestream on your handset.

Coupled with a desktop download, your phone’s media and text are easy pieced together to create a lifestream… Combine that with Twitter (40404) and you have yourself… well… an end-to-end solution that’ll suit you on the go.

One thing to keep in mind is that they’re currently partnered with TypePad … which is a subscription based blogging service, which is bullshit - by the way.

3. Gaming

This might just be new to me, but multi-player gaming from a phone via Bluetooth or MediaNET (AT&T) is just awesome to me, and adds a social aspect to a device typically used for social engagement… Huh.

For a price of $499 and some shipping (TigerDirect) - without contract and unlocked (you T-Mobile people), this thing is a steal and a half. It doesn’t have a QWERTY keyboard, but I’m not a fan of QWERTY on a phone, but I am a fan of my fully compatible Bluetooth keyboard (iGo) for if I ever need one on my phone though - so back to sending SMS’s and driving… [disclaimer: blah blah not safe, etc etc, don't try it yourself, etc, I'm not responsible, so forth and so on].