Archive for October, 2005
(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) Here are some great links about corporate wikis and blogs What’s it all about? The Wisdom of crowds: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/ Wikipedia: Wisdom of crowds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds Blink and the Wisdom of crowds. http://slate.msn.com/id/2111894/entry/2112064/ Smart Mobs: http://www.smartmobs.com/book/index.html Web 2.0: Web 2.0 Conference [...]
The Vancouver Enterprise Forum event on Web 2.0 was an evening of firsts, at least if I judged it by the number of people signing up on the spot for the event who were not regular VEF attendees, the number of people who stayed after the presentation to talk to the presenters at the front [...]
Podcast + video iPod = Porncast. BRILLIANT. Mark Morford strikes again with a brilliant and very likely insanely lucrative idea. Apple definitely won’t take it on which means that somebody somewhere should. Some choice quotes: I am the first. At least, I am the first I know of to think of this idea at this [...]
How many times a week does this happen? You decide to meet a couple of business colleagues for lunch and 20 emails later, you have finally decided on a place and time that works for all of your schedules and then one of you can’t make it, starting a whole new thread of messages to [...]
UPDATE: Thanks to everybody who helped us get almost 300 votes! Our submission was accepted and we are now aiming to have our manifesto written by December 2nd. It’s a damned good thing we’re going to write it collaboratively!
As a follow-up to Brent’s “Two Point Oh No” article over, and Boris Mann‘s response, Boris and I were wondering exactly how many hours it would take before Boris had higher google rank on Brent’s name than Brent did with his articles that have been running for (how many years?) on bctechnology.com’s website. It took [...]
My favourite quotes from this Register article with my comments in [square brackets]: “Microsoft had competed (…pause…) rather vigorously,” with Palm said Ed [Colligan], “but times have changed.” … “Palm always did great work and we lusted after some of the things they did well,” said Bill. [like make fast operating systems that weren't overloaded [...]
Boris posted a note about Brent Holliday’s recent Web Two Point Oh anti-hype column. Brent, I sensed just a little bit of defensiveness about your 1.0 state. Let any of us know if you want a hand moving your column over to 2.0 standards, we’ll be happy to help. Really. More accurately, let me volunteer [...]
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Please forward as appropriate to your respective networks. Sorry for the late notice on this everyone, but I just found out today that a company my good friend Ean Jackson has just started with, Genesis Exchange, is looking for more good candidate companies to present their elevator pitches to a group of private equity investors. [...]
Some friends and I decided that we want to write a Web 2.0 manifesto over at ChangeThis. We submitted our proposal to the ChangeThis team and they accepted! So now we need you to go over and vote for us on this page! Here is the summary of the proposal: There is a change occurring [...]
In this article over at the Register, they talk about how Google’s Eric Schmidt had had his team do some math and they figured that they had indexed 170 terabytes out of a possible 5,000,000 terabytes currently in the world’s data stores. Most of that is of course, “surface web”, rather than “deep web”. And [...]
As usual, there is a lot of anticipation around Apple’s media event planned for this upcoming week and I thought that I would weigh in with my own predictions for the week ahead. My guess is that Apple is going to release the first Intel based Powerbook. Why? Because they have been doing “updates” to [...]
I just found out about Dick Hardt’s keynote presentation at OSCon which he did using a style reminiscent of Lawrence Lessigs. It is a great presentation on Identity 2.0 principles, and talks about the differences between Identity 1.0 (where every site you use stores its own copy of your identify information) to Identity 2.0 (where [...]
So now that many of my applications live on the web, I’m kind of wondering..how do I back them up? I mean, I know that THEY are backing up (aren’t they?) But what if the company evaporates one day trapping all of my precious data inside? What I would like is a backup service that [...]
I have always thought it was odd that I had to have different category lists everywhere in my computer and then had to keep them aligned. Will somebody please implement global tags that I can see on my computer so that I can look at all of the calendar items, contacts, tasks, emails, and files [...]
This past weekend, my friends and I created a document together in Writely. User 1 logged in and set up the document space. Then they invited users 2 through 6 to the space by email. I got the link, clicked it and logged in. And voila, 3 of us were editing the document together in [...]
If you have not already done so, you might want to read Part 1 of this primer. So you are convinced that you want to “join the revolution” and now you’re wondering what to do first. Here are the first 8 steps that you will probably want to take: 1. IDENTIFY YOURSELF: Here are the [...]
How many versions will it take just to get basic numbering and bulleting to work properly? It has taken me 20 minutes to try to do a numbered list with one numbered point having four bullet points. This is a complete joke. Text-edting, bullet points, and numbering can NOT be this hard to program. We [...]
Okay, here goes my attempt at creating a totally incomplete, biased, and opinionated summary of why you should care about Web 2.0 as a non-techie geek who can barely use their computer to begin with: Why do it at all? · Web 2.0 is about connecting people: it won’t change the world, it [...]
from the C|Net Integrates Ontology Viewer Into News Site: ikewillis writes “The new beta version of news.com now features an integrated ontology viewer developed in collaboration with LivePlasma who appears to have built a large ontology for music and movies. While they don’t appear to provide direct access to the ontological data using semantic web [...]
Here is a very funny letter that Rick Segal posted to his blog about the 26 minute power outage that was “our tsunami” in trendy L.A.
Boris is at it again. (Kate, do you ever see him anymore??) He is proposing that we build a meat-space collaboration facility for budding entrepreneurs to gather in to swap vcards and ideas while admiring the skateboarder decals applied in to their respective laptops. The official vision is: a physical, 24/7 space where Vancouver’s entrepreneur [...]
This stuff is cool. And it’s changing daily. But let’s face it, unless you’re one of the geek acolytes in this new space, most people don’t have the time in their schedules to sit and read in the bathroom, let alone figure out the cool new web-app of the week and also figure out how [...]
It is only when you take into account the sum total of a person’s associations, actions, talk, relationships, you get a more complete picture of them in the real world than if you just listen to their words. The corollary in the web 2.0 world (or web 1.0 world for that matter) is that the [...]
How did this go by without major announcements? Palm fights Microsoft for 12 years (?) and then forms an alliance and decides to ship a Windows based Treo? Is RIM really that much of a threat? Are Palm’s numbers that bad? This is like saying that Microsoft is going to start shipping Mac OS X [...]
Microsoft was right to crush Netscape and Java. I realized the other day that I spend a huge portion of my time in a browser. I use Firefox on the PC at work and Safari on the Mac at home. From home, I will have Outlook Web Access on one tab, Gmail in another tab, [...]
It’s that time of year again. Bob Chaworth-Musters, principal of the Angel Forum, will be hosting a one-day session where up to 34 pre-screened technology, service and manufacturing companies seeking equity funding of up to $1 million, will present to 70+ pre-screened private equity investors (80 investors registered in April). Private equity investor preferences (detailed criteria on [...]
