By Ian, on September 1st, 2006 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 Continue reading 2.0 is Dead. Long Live 2.0 By Ian, on August 29th, 2006 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. Continue reading Google Office Mania. Slow News Month? By Ian, on August 29th, 2006 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 Continue reading Email is Broken By Ian, on August 27th, 2006 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 Continue reading Getting to know you By Ian, on August 26th, 2006 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 Continue reading Understanding digg again, natural order By Ian, on August 25th, 2006 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. Continue reading The Semantic Lunch | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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