Category: Web 2.0

  • Bubbly video

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  • Funny Dilbert

    I always enjoy Dilbert, but this one is especially funny: Dilbert on Web 2.0.

  • A moment in time

    Catchy name for a party, isn’t it 🙂

  • Open Source vs. Open APIs

    When I helped start the Yahoo Developer Network, part of my job was to go around to all the product teams inside Yahoo and convince them that it would be good for their business to open up free web APIs. The response among technical folks was pretty universally enthusiastic. It’s just one of those ideas…

  • MySpace content ownership

    Musicians are starting to pull content off of MySpace because MySpace's terms of use claim ownership of anything you put on their service: Musicians' rights: Lost in MySpace?

  • User Generated Content -> People Media

    Many people don’t like the term user generated content. It’s because it focuses on content, not people. And people are what matters most on the new web. I mentioned this to Tony Conrad a while back, and yesterday I noticed that he’s using the term People Media instead of user generated content. I asked him…

  • Better blog search

    In case you haven't already, you should check out Sphere. It's a great new blog search engine which I helped get started last year and which, more importantly, will help you discover great blogs.

  • Web 2.0 impedance mismatch

    Everyone but Wall Street seems to be excited about the “new web”: Consumers: excited: 200,000 new MySpace users every day VCs: excited:pre-revenue web 2.0 startups are raising $5-10MM Press: excited: Business Week, Business 2.0, DesignTechnica, lots more Wall Street: not excited: Google drops 7% (again) overnight

  • Random quote

    If you thought that nobody really talks in that certain way that various “bullshit generators” make fun of, consider this: a few weeks ago I got a voice mail from a recruiter and he said verbatim “Would you be interested in joining an exciting startup? They are called ****** and they provide a hosted on-demand…

  • What is Web 2.0?

    In the build-up to next week’s Web 2.0 conference, technology observers are debating what web 2.0 is (I’m speaking at the conference on a couple of topics). I think the term web 2.0 has reached a tipping point in Silicon Valley in the last couple of months. People have been prognosticating a shift in the…