This week: Anti-Web 2.0, Bubble Meme Map, Flock, Web Libraries, Techie Post of the Week - Ben Barren on Architecture Astronautssponsored by:Anti-Web 2.0This 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...
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...
Gmail Engineer Paul Buchheit has a lovely post in which he explains why he created Gmail for Google. He begins by noting that email has just turned 34 - only one or two months younger than me as it happens. He goes on to say that Gmail gave him "the...
Gabe Rivera's memeorandum got a great write-up in Wired News today. Also TechCrunch reported that memeorandum has a new feature, a news widget that bloggers can include on their site. As I was looking at tech.memeorandum again this morning (as I do multiple times a day), it struck me that...
By now most of you know that Flock, a trendy new Mozilla-based "social web browser", has gone live. Because it's said to be a quintessential Web 2.0 application, I feel duty-bound to try it out. So I've downloaded it and will give it a go as my main browser for...
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has filed a lawsuit against Google "over its plans to digitally copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners". I liked how John Battelle summed it up:"I really don't get this. I have been both a publisher and an author, and...
Ben Barren's posts just keep getting better and better. Today he ponders the question: What Connects Richard MacManus + Jessica Alba?. He writes:"we may need a "Post-Valley Intervention" - Since The Father of Web 2.0 has left The Valley he has gone stir crazy. He was last seen walking around...
Nicholas Carr, a real journalist, has a blog post that argues that Web 2.0 is amoral. That's a relatively uninteresting academic argument though. Of more practical import, is his rage against the "cult of the amateur". But I find it curious that he bases his argument against amateurs on a...
Today The Register's Andrew Orlowski gleefully reported the existence of the first "Web 2.0 worm". Wrote our man in San Francisco: "It's been a rough weekend for Tomorrow's People. A JavaScript exploit that has been called the first "Web 2.0 worm" knocked out MySpace.com - and the $500m-valued website, recently...
Microsoft Emerging Business Team member Don Dodge has another thought-provoking post on Internet business. Don notes how so many innovative companies who were market leaders in the 90's have been overtaken by the new era of "fast followers". Here's his list of examples:* AltaVista -> Google * Napster -> iTunes...
This'll be my last post from Silicon Valley for a while. I've been here for two full weeks and I've had a fantastic time! I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Mike Arrington for letting me stay at his house and making me feel so welcome - thanks Mike!...
As TechCrunch reported, two more resources have been added to our nascent Web 2.0 Workgroup. Mike wrote:"Podtech.net is a very popular podcast site hosted by John Furrier that is redefining corporate press practices. Recently, for instance, Yahoo gave Podtech an exclusive pre-announcement right to discuss their podcasting service last weekend.SolutionWatch,...
Uber classifieds site craiglisthas requested that Oodle, a classifieds 'meta' search engine, refrain from scraping its content. This has the potential to be the first high-profile case of a mash-up site being slapped for taking another site's content. In a recent ZDNet post, I wrote that the business models for...
Whether you love or hate the Web 2.0 meme, you have to admit it's gained a lot of traction in both tech and business circles. Now we're beginning to see cultural and sociological posts about Web 2.0, although Danah Boyd and Barb Dybwad have both written great posts on similar...
This is the best thing I've written in ages... thanks to Saurier Duval for doing a mash-up of my blog.Some choice extracts:"The stats they released today indicate theyíre well on their way to explain them in the Web as a serviceí concept (which is by no means a new regular...
For the record, I have actually read Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland. Indeed just over a year ago I wrote on my blog that Microserfs is my favourite Douglas Coupland book. I wasn't in the room when Dave Winer talked to the others about it, leading him to write this:"I'm over...
Mike Arrington has another Ode to Memeorandum on Techcrunch. I'm a big fan of tech.memeorandum too and it's changing the way I read blogs and catch up with the latest tech news. My first rave review of memeorandum was a month ago when it went live and since then I've...
The Web 2.0 Workgroup has expanded to 4 blogs (and more to come!), with the addition of Dave Winer's Two-Way Web blog. This is awesome news, because the Two-Way Web site was a defining influence on me when I first started blogging.Dave was around at the TechCrunch house later in...
I'm sensing a backlash about the rising VC interest in Web 2.0. Mike Rundle takes aim at Flock in his post subtitled "The Leaning Tower of Buzz". He thinks Flock is only useful to the blog crowd and doesn't have a viable business model. Bart from Flock disagrees, saying in...
The necessary components of a mash-up according to the panelists are AJAX or a similar client-side technology, APIs in the backend (or RSS and/or scraping if need be - although some people argue scraping isn't truly Web 2.0), and a lot of work on the UI and data sets by...
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