Seattle Post Intelligencer asked people on the street about this Web 2.0 stuff. And err… there’s not a lot of recognition. Drat. As we’ve discussed before, though, these people may well know about YouTube, MySpace, etc. The terminology will be the last thing that people worry about.
The question of the day: What is your definition [...]
Tag Archives: web2.0
The Word on the Street
November 9, 2006 – 11:33 am
Web 2.0 in the Guardian
November 6, 2006 – 10:18 am
The Guardian reckons Web 2.0 is ready for the mainstream with its Weekend section dominated by a 15-page feature entitled ‘A Bigger Bang’. John Lanchester’s article provides the keynote to the section, in a piece which is well-written and clever:
a new wave of innovation on the internet, an innovation focused not so much on new [...]
Beneath the Surface
November 2, 2006 – 10:23 am
I did an interview with Stewart Manley, CTO of Mediasurface, yesterday. The company makes Content Management software for producing business websites, whether they be internet, intranet or extranet sites. Their customers tend to be quite heavyweight, such as the Environment Agency, NATO, Oxford University Press, and SSA Global. A far cry, in other words, from [...]
Coffee with Julie Meyer
October 26, 2006 – 10:06 am
As I make my way down Cannon Street, I feel like death warmed up. I’ve had a bad cold for three or four days, and I’ve used the magical power of cigarettes to develop a simultaneous cough of room-shaking proportions. I’m off to see Julie Meyer at Ariadne Capital. Julie is perhaps best-known as the [...]
MyBlogLog is Watching You
October 20, 2006 – 9:28 am
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 [...]
Another Post about GooTube, descending rapidly into specious generalisations
October 10, 2006 – 1:21 am
Quoted from Mr. Scoble (who is not specious):
“I do note that Google’s stock is up. Yahoo and Microsoft’s are down.”
The market believes this can work. Long-time readers will know that I am a believer in the Wisdom of Crowds. As the book says, when they’re properly orchestrated, the masses can make better decisions than experts. [...]
More Equals Different: the Web 2.0 Mix
October 7, 2006 – 12:40 pm
Pew Internet Life’s new report Riding the Waves of “Web2.0″, another investigation into the meaning of the term, doesn’t contain a lot of surprises for readers of this blog, though they may find its conclusions controversial.
After explaining the origins and the perceived meaning of Web 2.0, the report argues that, “despite all of this [...]
Web 2.0 video from Techcrunch
August 8, 2006 – 2:45 pm
Web 2.0 documentary hosted by Michael Arrington of Techcrunch with 13 startup CEOs. Well worth a look, and easier than reading all these words, eh?
The Tim O’Reilly interview
August 7, 2006 – 9:35 am
I’d been hoping to interview Tim O’Reilly since starting work on the book. As the person widely recognised as having coined the expression ‘Web 2.0′, I wanted to know more about what he thought of the way it was all going. He’s a nice guy to talk to, by the way. He’s better humoured, but [...]
Reddit in the black
August 4, 2006 – 4:21 pm
The news aggregator site reddit has been profitable since April, according to Mass High Tech. I’m very pleased for them. The site takes the digg model a little further with recommendations based on your voting habits. It also seems to have a somewhat quieter, maybe older user base, which leads to a difference in the [...]
