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 [...]
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 as one [...]
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 [...]
Exactly how useful are tags?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 to combine the [...]
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 publishes a quickie [...]
News voting site digg is to re-adjust its story promotion algorithm to give less weight to votes from friends. Founder Kevin Rose writes on the digg blog:
This algorithm update will look at the unique digging diversity of the individuals digging the story. Users that follow a gaming pattern will have less promotion weight. This doesn’t [...]
Illegal sharing and downloading continues to have a major appeal for music consumers, in spite of several high-profile litigation campaigns. Two thirds share music and over a third of us have used illegal download networks like Kazaa, Limewire and Soulseek. That’s according to a new report from Entertainment Media Research. The sample comprised over 3,000 [...]
Well, it isn’t. But we’ve stretched this handy little tool a bit further than it was ever supposed to go. Think about some of the most successful Web 2.0 businesses in the context of broken email and a connection starts to form.
Ed Yourdon visited eight Bay area Web 2.0 companies last week and drew together [...]
