When I started researching this topic, one of the sites that impressed me was CoMagz-Linkadelic Magazine. This seemed like a great example of publishing the Web 2.0 way. Users write stories and submit them. Others vote for the stories that appear. The best ones appear on the front page. A bit like digg, I suppose, [...]
July 17, 2006
Video sharing site YouTube seems unstoppable in the current climate. Pete Cashmore reports that the site is delivering up to one million videos a day. Sceptics have pointed at the YouTube business model, with their lack of advertising, as a prime example of the lack of solid business planning among Web 2.0 startups. How, they wonder, [...]
July 9, 2006
I have been lucky enough to interview Paul Graham, partner at venture firm Y Combinator and author of Hackers and Painters, about Web 2.0 and some of the business issues it has provoked. Paul has an interesting take on who is going to be powerful in coming years: “A hacker with design sense is really [...]
June 30, 2006
This is a draft of the first part of my chapter on the rise of blogging. The book is intended for general readers, not technorati, so bear that in mind. Too technical still? Not technical enough? Just so that the uninitiated can get through this chapter, blog is short for web log. That is, a record [...]
June 27, 2006
Marc Fawzi makes an interesting point about web 2.0 society Fact: trusted individuals are once again the source of news in a society (bloggers) Fact: word of mouth is once again how news spreads (viral marketing) Fact: people once again hunt and gather in a group (del.icio.us) Fact: people once again group things using words like [...]
July 18, 2006