2.0 is Dead. Long Live 2.0

The Register, ZD Net and PC Pro have all dis­covered a month-​​​​old tran­script of an podcast fea­turing Tim Berners Lee made by IBM and pub­lished stories about it within a day of each other. Read/​​Write web pub­lished on the story over a week ago on August 22nd. Is this what they call ‘social

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Google Office Mania. Slow News Month?

More blog entries on this subject than any other yes­terday, with 1811 posts and counting, according to Technorati. Back in reality, here’s what alexaholic has to say about four of the best-​​​​known hosted office products versus one RSS aggreg­ator service. Bear in mind that only 9% of US employees even know what RSS is.

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Email is Broken

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 some of

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Getting to know you

Personally, I can’t abide text chat. Not enough time for me to think (email) and no real-​​​​life presence (phone). However, my new series, This-​​​​Guy-​​​​Emailed-​​​​Me-​​​​About-​​​​His-​​​​New-​​​​Product (as in this and this), con­tinues apace.

Charles Landemaine con­tacted me about Interaction, a text chat applic­a­tion that can be inserted into any web page. This AJAX product comes in three

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Understanding digg again, natural order

My first attempts to under­stand digg, the news-​​​​voting site, were a bit of a shambles, to be honest. I tried to work out the order and content of the front page and ended up in a tangle of half-​​​​remembered Maths lessons. Owen Byrne, senior software engineer at the service, put me out of my misery by commenting

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The Semantic Lunch

Lunch today with John Davies, who’s in charge of next-​​​​web research for BT. It was quite a long, or rather intense, dis­cus­sion, so I’ll only tackle the basics here. I’ve been trying to nail this semantic web issue for some time, but every time I start reading an academic paper, my atten­tion seems to wander off.

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