…is Who 2.0. That’s according to an interview with Tim O’Reilly, the man who popularised Web 2.0. On Basque news site eitb24, he said that he thinks:
…certain kinds of databases are going to become really big and really useful. We are just in the early stages, digital identity doesn’t really work yet. But that will, [...]
Online privacy and reputation is going to be big business over the next few years. The last couple of weeks have seen the beta launch of both London’s Garlik and US-based Reputation Defender. Both of these subscription services offer to scour the web for you, find every trace of your name and optionally attempt to [...]
Nice interview on Techcrunch about Vox, the new social network/blog platform from SixApart. I have to confess that I didn’t really see the point of Vox when it first appeared, given the existence of all the other social networks out there. SixApart’s Andrew Anker explains:
More importantly to Vox, we believe there is very little out [...]
The out-of-beta relaunch of MyBlogLog was covered twice today on Techcrunch. On the front page Marshall Kirkpatrick notes that the site functions as an automated social network around your blog using cookies to show the members visiting your site and allowing users to mine information about what sites they visit. Users automatically join a blog’s [...]
Pew Internet & American Life Project has released its second Future of the Internet survey, with experts and pundits broadly agreeing that by 2020:
A low-cost global network will be thriving and creating new opportunities in a “flattening†world.
Humans will remain in charge of technology, even as more activity is automated and “smart agents†proliferate. However, [...]
