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Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] Net Neutrality debate: Vinton Cerf, father of the internet vs. Robert Pepper, ex-FCC and now Cisco Bob: this is a falsely premised debate setting up tyranny on the one hand (heavy-handed regulation) vs.chaos (no regulation) [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] A Conversation with Bruce Chizen, Adobe: he talked a lot about Adobe. blah blah blah. Mostly pitching. There seemed to be a lot of “We get this. Really we do.” He claimed that Adobe has [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]A Conversation with Jeff Bezos, Amazon S3 and EC2 are storage and processing. They should not be very interesting. So why are people so excited? Because the time from concept to delivery has been collapsed. We [...]
(For earlier parts of the saga, see here, here and here) While travelling last week, the MacBook was acting up. It was constantly going to sleep in the middle of work, even with a full battery and while plugged in. Poof. Gone. And like when I first got it, it would take 30 seconds of [...]
I was at Web 2.0 Summit last week in SF, and was wandering around downtown trying to meet my friends for dinner. I had my Blackberry with Google maps on it so I could see where the restaurant was, but what I really wanted was to see where I was, and where they were in [...]
Day 1 Notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA Session 1: Enterprise 2.0 Mayfield had talked about SLATES – (search, linking, authoring, tagging, extensions, and signals) finally being possible on Socialtext’s new platform that they have formed with Six Apart, and a bunch of other companies called the Intel Suite. [I side with [...]
If IScrybe and Salesforce and Zimbra can do it, surely Google can build Gmail so that you can just work offline on the laptop when you’re away and then click either “sync” or “work online” once you’re back on the net. I hope that we can expect to see the same thing with Google Docs [...]
Okay, who can get me a beta account for iScrybe? This looks AWESOME!
Yikes. I knew it was bad. But 91%?????
(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) NOTE: The following is the full-text hyperlinked version of the “Manifesto” that was first released at ChangeThis.com as a PDF file in summer 2006. Web 2.0: Strategies and Lessons for Business by Troy Angrignon with Nick Kellet, Ean Jackson, [...]
I was referred to this great story by my friend Lorraine today and had to post it immediately: [From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly] I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck. [...]
Ben Franklin said it best: “Those who would trade liberty for a bit of safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” This is appalling. I urge everybody to watch this:
Why do spammers insist on plugging every bloody orifice???? I am getting 40-50 gambling/porn/sex trackback spam in my Blogware account EVERY SINGLE DAY. That is with “delete trackback if detected as spam and moderate the rest” turned on. In other words, on its most aggressive setting, I’m getting 40-50 per day. I had to delete [...]
We have had some more great comments from people about Web 2.0: Strategies and Lessons for Business but oddly no flames or outright disagreement. Here are some links and comments from around the Web: I had the pleasure of meeting Jeremy Geelan, who was chairing The New New Internet conference last week in Virginia and [...]
This morning, I deleted the 3600 spam that were sitting in my Gmail Spam folder. Lo and behold, 2h15 2h22m later I have 15 16 new ones promising to sell me cheap electronics, software, pharmaceuticals, watches, orgasms, and debt forgiveness. More and more, I am agreeing with people like Fred Wilson and his kids who [...]
This is without a doubt the best business movie of the year for its content. And it is probably one of my favourite movies of the year for its film quality as well. This movie is BRILLIANT. It is the true story of a men’s brogue shoe factory in Northamptonshire, England that in order to [...]
If you have ever wanted to turn your apartment into a replica of a Starship Voyager spacecraft, there is a fellow in Hinckley, Leicestershire that you might want to call. But call him quickly. He bankrupted himself redesigning his apartment in the hopes that others would see his incredible design skill and hire him. Bizarre [...]
The Register once again does its usual bang-up job of reporting on the humour in technology. I believe it was Bruce Schneier who once said that people always claimed to be concerned about their data privacy…unless you offered them a donut. (I might be attributing that quote incorrectly as I can’t find it anymore.) And [...]
A month ago, I bought a new Blackberry 7100. Because I renewed the contract for 3 years, Rogers gave me their renewal rate of $250 for the phone. This weekend I managed to submerge my cell phone in the ocean long enough for it to short out. I talked to my dealer and they could [...]
Well, it seems that my MacBook continues to exhibit some of the weirdness that other people are seeing. The three issues that seems to be affecting it now are the processor pauses, a penchant for putting itself to sleep when I’m in the middle of working on it, and poor battery life. The first appears [...]
This values video from Microsoft UK is getting lots of web-juju and deservedly so. It’s hilarious even if you don’t like “The Office.”
Thanks to the nice people at ChangeThis.com, The Web 2.0 Manifesto is now here and can be downloaded from this page or if you want you can get the PDF directly by clicking this link. Please email me with comments! Stay tuned for a series of blog-posts that will follow up in more depth.
Yes, it has been a long wait. When we started this Manifesto, it was “way back in October 2005″. The world has moved a long way in that time. Much of what we wrote then is now already out of date!! But the current draft will be released for better or for worse at the [...]
My friend Ross Waring coined a new word today. I was reading him some of the excellent poetry that I received in my spam and he said, “Spam Poetry? You mean SPOETRY?” I had to immediately post that to the world just in case he was the first to coin it. For your reading pleasure [...]
Okay, this is so true it’s getting painful. I am hearing all sorts of crazy valuations for web 2.0 type startups that are pretty silly. Thanks to Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert for this excellent series. Here is the most recent one in the set:
At least, the ones that have been tagged “Mesh06″ are here. http://meshconference.com/blog/ <– the official blog http://www.technorati.com/tag/mesh06 http://blogs.ebusiness-apps.com/alexei/ http://publishing2.com/2006/05/15/live-blogging-at-mesh/#paul-kedrosky-keynote
Wow, what a day. I’m here at Mesh conference (sounds like a standard reporter… “I’m here at the launch of the new space elevator and the crowds are going wild!!!”) and it was a fun and interesting day. Some highlights and thoughts from the past 24 hours. web 2.0 is still being defined. Even the [...]
I think I have found the magic number. Every fifth article from Mark Morford is so brilliant, insightful, and articulate that I need to post most, if not all, of it here for my readers. Today is the day for another. In one fell swoop, Mark has managed to hit on a whole bunch of [...]
Another brilliant rant from Mark Morford. See the full article here. Excerpts below: Look, see those tire marks? That ungainly footprint? Feel that breath of humid doom upon your skin? Yes, the president was just here. Up in Napa Valley, riding his official Trek Mountain Bike One over the rocks and down the trails and [...]
I work on a lot of different distributed teams, on corporate and non-profit projects. I have been finding it very interesting (and frustrating) to see what channels I have to use to communicate to my various peers. Channels by environment: For working in enterprise teams, we rely on audio-conference bridges with 1-800 numbers, file-servers, Sharepoint, [...]
