The dotcom boom and bust has been voted the most influential Internet moment of the past 10 years, by organisers of the annual Webby Awards:
“Launched by Netscape’s IPO in 1995, the dotcom boom spurred trillions of dollars in private investments into the Internet, new technologies, marketing, and fiber optic cable and led to the development of…
Remember Ning.com, the service for building and using social applications? I’ve been waiting for a really interesting app to come out of that – and this may be it. Anytown Marketplace is the creation of the exceedingly clever Jonathan Aquino. Jon described it as “a Craigslist-like app that you can clone and customize for your city if it doesn’t yet…
Here’s a site to keep an eye on – an English language blog about Web 2.0 in China:
“China Web2.0 Review is a blog dedicated to track and review web2.0 development in China. We will profile and review web2.0 applications, products, services and business in China, and track the buzz about web2.0 in Chinaís internet industry as well.”
Graphic from…
Flock has been getting a lot of flack from certain quarters. Mostly they’re being (unfairly) tagged as a kind of symbol of the so-called Web 2.0 bubble. I’ve been dismayed by some of the venom that’s been directed at Flock – some of it has been downright spiteful. I’m a bit saddened to see it’s apparently prompted an outright ban of the phrase ‘Web…
This week: Microsoft Live, Flash Maps and the Mechanical Turk, Web 2.0 meet-ups
all over the world, 2.0 Blog of the Week – Supr.c.ilio.us.
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Microsoft Live wrap-up
The big news of the week was Microsoft’s announcement of Windows Live and Office Live. My post
entitled Microsoft Livens Up
Web 2.0 summarized all the news and my…
Interesting NY Times article about Yahoo!. Some key quotes:
“The idea that human judgment can improve a search engine’s automatic findings is hardly new. From the dawn of the Web’s history – that is, over the last 15 years – companies have invented tools to help users assess the quality and relevance of information, often by relying on others…
What is Amazon Mechanical Turk? It’s a web service that enables you to “complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it.”
Amazon describes it thusly: “…when we think of interfaces between human beings and computers, we usually assume that the human being is the one requesting that a task be completed, and the…
The UK has its own Web 2.0 Conference on 11 November in Brighton, in the form of d.Construct:
“d.Construct 2005 is the UKís first grassroots Web 2.0 conference. It is an affordable, one-day event aimed at those building the latest generation of web-based applications. The event will discuss how new technology is transforming the web from a…
This what it’s all about:
“Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet could be considered Content Creators. They have created a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations.”
That finding is from the Pew Internet & American Life…
So the latest ruckus in tech.blogosphere is about Dave Winer’s call to Clone the Google API (note the URL name). Robert Scoble wrote an enthusiastic post entitled Yahoo’s new pretty maps are doomed (and so are Microsoftís), which understandably got up the nostrils of Yahoo!’s Jeremy Zawodny.
Microsoft’s Dare Obasanjo wrote a post that outlined…
Dion
Hinchcliffe has an excellent post outlining the top 10 issues for Web 2.0 today (an 11th was added in the comments by Paul
Montgomery). Here’s a summary of Dion’s list with comments from me, but be sure to check his site too because he has useful commentary for each
point.
1. Excessive Hype: “Nothing will hurt Web 2.0 more than people…
Summary: My Day 1 impressions of Windows/Office Live are positive and I think Microsoft is taking
up the challenge of an increasingly Web-based software world, while at the same time
sticking to their desktop software knitting. I’m particularly intrigued by the Xbox 360
relationship and I think we’ll see a lot more multimedia coming out of…
As part of the news this morning (my coverage here), Microsoft has released a website called live.com. It appears to be start.com under a new name – i.e. the RSS Reader/portal homepage that was released earlier this year. And it still doesn’t have decent Firefox support! Dave Winer has a screenshot.
Back-story of live.com domain
The actual Live.com…
Microsoft just announced its new Web-based Windows and ‘software as a service’ strategies. After first announcing the Xbox 360 will be
released on Nov 22 in North America, Gates talked about their new
“Live” brand (thanks Mike
from TechCrunch for the news – he has pictures
too). The “Live” era will encompass the “Software…
This week: Microsoft’s Web 2.0 strategy, Google Base, Yahoo! travel, Web 2.0
Humour, 2.0 Post of the Week.
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Microsoft’s Web 2.0 Strategy
There’s big news coming this week from Microsoft, on the consumer as well as business
side. It sounds like Microsoft is really ramping up its Web 2.0 strategy.
Meanwhile, this week I wrote…
I was quoted in an IDG InfoWorld story, entitled Gates, Ozzie seen unveiling hosted services next week:
“Some prominent Microsoft watchers, such as Richard MacManus, also have suggested a hosted version of Microsoft Office may be in the works. In his Web log, Web 2.0 Explorer, freelance Web analyst and writer MacManus on Sept. 28 outlined…
My latest ZDNet column is a potential doozy:
Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications. But the best quote in that article was left till last. A “Microsoft insider” was asked which other products and services…
I’m really hoping this ‘Dot Oh’ term takes off – kind of like Dot Com, ay? 🙂 Anyway, Paul Scrivens has written a great post on the value of branding in the Web 2.0 world. Scrivs wrote:
“A major problem with this phase of the web that many people seem to miss isn’t that companies don’t have a business model, it’s that they aren’t doing a great…
Lots to eat today in Dot Oh Cafe. Here are some of the tasty tidbits that caught my eye as I perused the tech.memeorandum and Rojo menus:
Google’s smorgasbord classifieds service
Google Base is eating the lunch of many a hungry 2.0 start-up. Here are some of the mouth-watering dishes in Google Buffet (aka Base):
1. Course Schedules
2. Events and…
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…
