Duran Duran are setting up their own island on Second Life. All together, to the tune of Rio: “I’ve seen you on the beach and I’ve seen you on the web”.
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When it comes to some famous web 2.0 sites and services, it seems as though certain sites rule the roost. With 70% of video downloads from the net, the popular video clip site YouTube, may seem to be sitting pretty. But it isn’t, for three reasons. On the one hand, there are dozens of Compared to 2000, children are now around 30% less likely to be sexually solicited online, but more likely to encounter pornography and to be harassed. The University of New Hampshire’s Crimes Against Children Research Center surveyed 1500 children last year and compared findings with a similar group five years earlier. The full report is available Updated statistics. Following the Bivings Group report into US newspapers’ adoption of Web 2.0 approaches such as blogging and podcasts, which I wrote about here, BBC English Regions Community Producer Robin Hamman has compiled a similar survey for the top eleven UK dailies. The results are as follows (click for bigger): Good to hear from Craig Williams from audabble.net [update: now gone to pot, it seems] who has just set up a new personalised radio service. The downloadable Flash application plays your own MP3 files interspersed with news highlights from your favourite sources which are fed through a text-to-speech engine. At this point, the service still needs a little An important but under-represented part of Web 2.0 is mobility. The use of RSS, podcasts and CSS design is partly predicated on the idea that we’ll all be accessing web resources from all over the place, using all kinds of devices. Sadly, five years after the launch of the first GPRS (2.5G) services in the |             | |||
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