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An interview in the Sunday Times yesterday said that Bebo head Michael Birch seemed prepared to wait before earning much money from the service: Birch, 36, is almost dismissive of the need for Bebo to generate revenues at this stage. For the next two or three years, his priority is to establish the firm I was asked about non-linear search and said I’d give it a go. (The question comes from Simon Collister, who I am sure has a few ideas of his own up his sleeve. But since he wrote a fab post about tagging, which in turn fuelled my own effort on the subject, it’s definitely my turn to Tags and tagging are a big part of the Web 2.0 ethos. Instead of sorting items into folders, you describe them with a series of words. The words you use, the ‘tags’, are up to you. Some people refer to this as ‘folksonomy’ in the sense that tags are home-grown and created Less than a week after the service’s third birthday, social bookmarking service del.icio.us has announced an important milestone on its blog: …del.icio.us has just passed the mark of 1 million registered users! That’s more than triple the number of users we had just nine months ago. We can hardly believe it ourselves (although the smell of smoke Regina Lynn at Wired News is often asked where to find better porn. Thankfully, the brave new world of Web 2.0 is ready to find the answers for her with a wisdom engine for smut… Wonder if Michael and Pete will cover this? The result is the fledgling MoSex Index (NSFW), an attempt Tim O’Reilly says “Web 2.0 is not about these bubble companies, it’s about the new approaches we are trying.” Try has he might to focus on leveraging and intersecting databases, the world prefers lists of sites with funny names. Perhaps we ought to call this the digg world to avoid confusion. Wired news |             | |||
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