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Tuesday, 25th October 2005

WebDosBeta: Spain's Web 2.0 Conference

WebDosBeta is Spain's equivalent of the Web 2.0 Conference and it was held on 24 October in Madrid. I noticed it the other day in Technorati's Top 10 searches, but at the time I couldn't find any English translations. Thankfully Yannick Laclau has come through for us English-speakers and posted a fantastic summary on his blog (hat-tip Rafat for…

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Monday, 24th October 2005

You want disruptive? Here's disruptive...

In today's ZDNet column, I review Internet TV start-up Brightcove: "Brightcove was presented at the Web 2.0 Conference and is what I would class as a disruptive Web 2.0 start-up - one to keep an eye on. Whether or not they meet their ambitious aim of becoming a Google-scale Internet TV business, will play out over time. One thing's for sure…

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Sunday, 23rd October 2005

Weekly Wrap-ups

Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 17-23 Oct 2005

This week: Anti-Web 2.0, Bubble Meme Map, Flock, Web Libraries, Techie Post of the Week - Ben Barren on Architecture Astronauts sponsored by: Anti-Web 2.0 This was the week when the Web 2.0 Naysayers reached a crescendo of cynicism and even bile. Some of the criticism about Web 2.0 is right on the mark, don't get me wrong. For example there are…

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Mainstreaming of Web 2.0

While doing some research for a work project I'm doing currently, I came across this illuminating PEW report from January 2005, called Internet Evolution: A decade of adoption: How the internet has woven itself into American life. The following extract is from the introduction, entitled 'Internet: The Mainstreaming of Online Life'. Here it is, with…

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Friday, 21st October 2005

Web 2.0 Naysaying reaches an all-time high (or is it low)

Looks like the Web 2.0 Naysayers are starting to drown out those of us who've been preaching the 2.0 Gospel. Joel on Software, who has a lot of influence in the programming world, comes down hard with his post entitled Architecture Astronauts Are Back: "The term Web 2.0 particularly bugs me. It's not a real concept. It has no meaning. It's a big…

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