About

What is this blog about?

Implemented is a blog about new and interesting web technology. I often find things containing the word "open" to be especially interesting, like open source, open data and open standards etc. I think it is because what is open is generally accessible and free, and it makes you think about how you could put it to use. Implemented is also the personal blog of Jonas Bolinder, a developer and an aspiring entrepreneur (see more below).

Why the tagline "tracking the Web"

Note: In the first few months of this blog's life the tagline was "tracking Web 3.0", which the explanation below refers to. I've now changed it to the more generic "tracking the Web", in honor of Josh Catone's "It's just the web" post.

At the time of writing this (Jan 2008), the Web 2.0 era is in full bloom, and people are speculating about the next "version" of the web, i.e. Web 3.0. If the first version of the web, Web 1.0 was about static, read-only content presented to the user, the current version, Web 2.0 is about user interaction and user generated content, exemplified by blogs, social networks, web-applications, mashups, widgets etc. Web 3.0 is often referred to as the Semantic Web, but a lot of other meanings have been suggested. I have written a couple of feature posts on Web 3.0: The first about the frequency of mentions of Web 3.0 in news and blogs since Oct 2004, and the other about the various definitions applied to Web 3.0.

Who is Jonas Bolinder?

I am the author of this blog and at heart a developer, though currently I am also an aspiring entrepreneur, trying to build a business of my own. Actually, this blog is a part of that effort, aiming at, among other things, improving my online presence.

Though at heart a developer, I started out as a graduate student in fluid mechanics and heat transfer at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden. I got a Ph.D. in 1995, and then continued a few years as a research assistant, until I shifted gears and joined a consultant company as a system developer in 2001. Since a couple of years I am on my own, still though with one foot in the consultancy business.

My previous experience with programming languages is fairly broad, ranging from C and C++ to HTML, JavaScript and SQL, mostly on the Windows platform. Currently I am more focused towards the LAMP stack, i.e. Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, which are the building blocks of this WordPress blog.

I live in Helsingborg, Sweden, and my native language is Swedish, which is a language known by less than 10 million people, so to be able to reach a larger audience I write this blog in English, which is known by some 100 times more people.