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September 2005 Archives

Wednesday, 28th September 2005

Web 2.0 Elevator Pitch

The 'What is Web 2.0?' meme is everywhere and everyone seems to have a different interpretation. Here are some of the latest: Om Malik: "a “collection of technologies - be it VoIP, Digital Media, XML, RSS, Google Maps… whatever …. that leverage the power of always on, high speed connections and treat broadband as a platform…

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Tuesday, 27th September 2005

Sponsor Opportunity: Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up

Next week is the last week of my sponsorship arrangement with Onfolio, so I'm putting feelers out for another Web 2.0-savvy company to sponsor my popular Weekly Wrap-up. I've been writing this weekly column since the beginning of January this year - never missed a week. It's become the premium offering of my weblog and the two sponsors I've had…

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The Services Ecosystem

Phil Wainewright wrote an excellent post recently entitled The great Web 2.0 application (s)mash-up. He starts by quoting Mohan Sawhney, professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management: "Five years from now, the concept of an application will be obsolete," Sawhney said. "They will all be services, combined, mixed, matched and reused…

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Really Simple Web 2.0

Mike Arrington thinks Tim O'Reilly's Web 2.0 meme map should be simpler and Dave Winer responds, saying it's a complicated self-serving meme and pointing out that the map doesn't include RSS. I've been looking at the meme map closely, while working on the latest chapter of Josh's and my O'Reilly book on Web 2.0 (so yes, I'm somewhat biased in…

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Monday, 26th September 2005

Web Services Publishing

Fascinating post by John Blossom on the evolution of content in the Web world. It's similar in theme to AP chief Tom Curley's famous Content and Containers speech last year - and my own extensive thoughts on the matter. Riffing on GoogleNet, Blossom wrote: "As content and software services merge into common XML-based objects, the lines between…

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