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Web 2.0 Is Hot in Japan...But Nobody Knows MySpace @ AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE

2006-09-24T19:05:00.000+00:00

Web 2.0 Is Hot in Japan...But Nobody Knows MySpace @ AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE: "Nobody knows MySpace.

I opened my session by asking the audience 'How many people have heard of MySpace? Please raise your hand'. The audience became silent. Most people looked puzzled. Some of them were looking at each wondering what 'MySpace' means. Nobody raised hand. My translator asked me quietly what I meant by MySpace. As I was desperately explaining MySpace to her, she suddenly said 'Oh, that's like Mixi'. All of a sudden, the audience got it - MySpace is the Mixi in US. "

A Web 2.0 magazine of the future | News.blog | CNET News.com

2006-09-21T14:47:00.000+00:00

A Web 2.0 magazine of the future | News.blog | CNET News.com: "JPG Magazine is doing the ultimate pulp mashup, tapping its community to provide material and vote on what gets published in print. All work is submitted for review by fellow photographers, and those chosen get $100 and a free subscription to the magazine.

As simple as this process sounds, it could have a seismic effect if adopted on a broad scale. JPG is essentially creating a print publication run by readers, drastically reducing the need for a traditional editorial staff. "

Keeping a Soldier Connected Web 2.0 Style

2006-09-21T14:43:00.000+00:00

Keeping a Soldier Connected Web 2.0 Style: "Roland is a Second Lieutenant in the Army's Transportation Corp. We graduated together from Davidson College in 2005. But when I went to New York, he left for boot camp to fulfill his ROTC obligation.

But here he was, a year later, chatting at the end of his workday in an office on a base near the Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq. These are different times, aren't they?

Something has happened to our world. It started with “You’ve Got Mail!” and the tech boom of the 90s. That bubble burst, but now we are saturated in its soapy connectivity.

Call it post-bubble, call it Web 2.0, or call it an evolution in human communication. In our time, information travels at broadband rates.

And it's connecting a solider to his home."

RED HERRING | Religion Sites Embrace Web 2.0

2006-09-20T17:45:00.000+00:00

RED HERRING | Religion Sites Embrace Web 2.0: "One has Psalms, the other has podcasts. One creates meaning out of Latin, an ancient language; the other finds new meanings through derivatives of common words, like “digg,” “friendster,” or “flickr.” One community meets every Sunday, the other meets with every click of a new web browser window."

Web Services With Web 2.0 Interfaces Are Surging – Thanks to AJAX @ AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE

2006-08-30T16:03:00.000+00:00

Web Services With Web 2.0 Interfaces Are Surging – Thanks to AJAX @ AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE: "AJAX is allowing developers to make web-based applications function more like desktop ones"

The Evans Data survey found a 37% increase in respondents implementing or considering REST, with one out of four surveyed saying that they are considering REST-Based Web Services as a simpler alternative to SOAP-based services.

Monkey Bites

2006-08-09T14:48:00.000+00:00

Monkey Bites: "
MyApartmentMap.com is a new mashup that brings a little bit of sanity to the total mind-melter that is the modern urban apartment search. The free service pulls apartment 'For rent' posts from Craigslist and plots them on a Google Map. The main interface puts the two side by side for easy browsing:"

New Web 2.0 Mash-Up Expands Photo-Merchandising Opportunities for Online Communities

2006-08-09T14:45:00.000+00:00

New Web 2.0 Mash-Up Expands Photo-Merchandising Opportunities for Online Communities: "Today Exclaim, a leading branded platform provider of innovative Web and wireless applications, announced the launch of two new printing and merchandising services: 'Media Merchant' and 'Media Marketplace'. Designed for the revolutionary new generation of interactive services such as blogs, social networks, associations, and other online communities, the easy-to-use applications seamlessly plug into any Web site to make buying and selling prints and photo merchandise easy and intuitive. These true Web 2.0 mash-ups unite photo-sharing and merchandising capabilities with the interaction available at wildly popular online communities, and gives customers an array of customizable, personalized merchandising options."

InfoWorld Daily | InfoWorld | Web 2.0, mashups and the browser | July 31, 2006 04:44 AM | By Tom Sullivan

2006-08-01T15:11:00.000+00:00

InfoWorld Daily | InfoWorld | Web 2.0, mashups and the browser | July 31, 2006 04:44 AM | By Tom Sullivan: "Getting beyond the hype, mashups are proving to be more than just annotated maps for consumery Web sites. 'Because mashups use technology that you already have -- JavaScript, XML, and DHTML, plus fast Internet connections to support graphical and functional richness --- there's no huge investment required,'"

» Web 2.0 profit angle: extreme self-promotion | Digital Micro-Markets | ZDNet.com

2006-07-31T06:34:00.000+00:00

» Web 2.0 profit angle: extreme self-promotion | Digital Micro-Markets | ZDNet.com: "While VC-backed and corporate owned Web 2.0 free-to-consumer services grapple with how to monetize the enormous, and costly, traffic their properties are generating, a few industrious users of the free services are capitalizing on the open Web 2.0 services to actively self-promote themselves, and their own services.

In “Moguls of New Media,” The Wall Street Journal traces how one early MySpace “friend” has aggressively used MySpace’s free hosting and tools to self-promote herself and her own commercial Web site properties and offline businesses:"

Every Organization Should Have A Web 2.0 Story @ AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE

2006-07-28T14:47:00.000+00:00

Every Organization Should Have A Web 2.0 Story @ AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE: "“Web 2.0 story”- what do you mean “Web 2.0 story”? I am not suggesting that every organization should build an Ajax product or go acquire a social networking site. I am merely suggesting that companies should take a serious look at web 2.0 from a business perspective, evaluate what/how web 2.0 might impact your business."

Business Week Web 2 0 is a Reality

2006-07-18T15:04:00.000+00:00

Business Week Web 2 0 is a Reality: "The Live Web portends a real sea of change for business.

In the CEO Guide to Technology Business Week advises CEOs to take note of the Live Web.

Describing web services such as MyYahoo, Flickr, Wikipedia, MySpace and others as sites that demand interaction and participation, Many of these applications use content syndication and sharing with RSS feeds.

Business Week suggests that CEOs should be aware of how these applications can be applied, both internally and externally.

Here are some examples:
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Avatars and Grid 2.0

2006-07-12T00:06:00.000+00:00

Avatars and Grid 2.0: "In Wikipedia, which is my favorite Web 2.0 site, there is a very healthy entry on MMORPG, which includes this blurb: 'Peer-to-peer MMORPGs could theoretically work cheaply and efficiently in regulating server load, but practical issues such as asymmetrical network bandwidth and CPU-hungry rendering engines make them a difficult proposition.'

Who knows who added the piece about peer-to-peer (P2P) to Wikipedia -- perhaps one of our GRIDtoday readers -- but the fact is that P2P computing methodology is already at the heart of many online games today, and the advances in Grid computing and communications are aimed right at the issues of asymmetry and CPU- hungry applications. The folks in the financial services industry who do risk analysis are very keen on Monte Carlo simulations using the Black-Scholes (sic Shoals, see below) algorithm. They have similar problems with asymmetry and CPU- hungry applications, and while their application is clearly more important than MMORPG, the number of individuals who actually use the application is severely constrained."

Social computing in the Web 2.0 era | WTN

2006-07-04T17:39:00.000+00:00

Social computing in the Web 2.0 era | WTN: "insights, descriptions, analysis, and evaluation of some of the Web 2.0 businesses and concepts that are gaining credibility and providing utility for both end consumers and businesses."

'Dream applications' start to come true on the Web | csmonitor.com

2006-04-27T13:19:00.000+00:00

'Dream applications' start to come true on the Web | csmonitor.com: "'We finally realized we could now execute some of these great ideas we had in 1999,' adds Alex Bard, the CEO of the start-up goowy.com, whose 100,000 users can send instant messages and e-mails, store and share videos or photos, and keep a calendar - all online. That means all these applications are available anywhere in the world, using a browser on any Web-connected computer."

Comic Strips

2006-04-22T16:43:00.000+00:00

The Boondocks

JavaScriptSearch News: BuzzShout Lets the Public Review Web 2.0 Services

2006-04-12T14:53:00.000+00:00

JavaScriptSearch News: BuzzShout Lets the Public Review Web 2.0 Services

BuzzShout (http://www.buzzshout.com)
, which launched this week, is a collaborative review site for Web 2.0 companies. It provides users with a forum to comment on any web 2.0 company, using the very same technologies that make web 2.0 possible.

BuzzShout logoAnyone can suggest a new company. The process includes stating the company name and URL, uploading a logo, writing a description and adding tags to describe the company and its industry. Moderators review submissions prior to publication.

The New Wisdom of the Web - Next Frontiers - MSNBC.com

2006-03-30T15:03:00.000+00:00

The New Wisdom of the Web - Next Frontiers - MSNBC.com

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Slashdot | The New Wisdom of the Web

2006-03-30T15:02:00.000+00:00

Slashdot | The New Wisdom of the Web

The Life of a Digg

2006-03-05T02:13:00.000+00:00

The Life of a Digg: "We explore the aftermath of what happens when the 'Digg Effect' hits your site."

(NOTE: My title for this article: The Architecture of Participation at work)

The Life of a Digg

2006-03-05T02:12:00.001+00:00

The Life of a Digg: "We explore the aftermath of what happens when the 'Digg Effect' hits your site."

(NOTE: My title for this article: The Architecture of Participation at work)

The Life of a Digg

2006-03-05T02:12:00.000+00:00

The Life of a Digg: "We explore the aftermath of what happens when the 'Digg Effect' hits your site."

(NOTE: My title for this article: The Architecture of Participation at work)

My Web 2.0 Presentation

2006-02-25T15:12:00.000+00:00

Here is a PowerPoint presentation I wrote for a lecture I gave on web 2.0. You can open it in OpenOffice and I'll be writing a standard web page version of it very soon.

VisiCalc Creator Developing WikiCalc

2006-02-17T22:58:00.000+00:00

VisiCalc Creator Developing WikiCalc

The wikiCalc program is a web authoring tool for pages that include data that is more than just unformatted prose. It combines some of the ease of authoring and multi-person editing of a wiki with the familiar visual formatting and data organizing metaphor of a spreadsheet. It can be easily set up to publish to basic web server space accessed by FTP and there is no need to set up server-side programs like CGI. It can, though, run on a server and be used with nothing more than a browser on the client.

Web 2.0 kicks off in 2006

2006-01-04T15:41:00.000+00:00

Napa Valley Register Online | LocalBusiness: "Web 2.0 could also be called the Great Awakening, in which what was promised -- or threatened --so long ago becomes real. You can get anything you want from the Web. The hegemony of software, applications and perhaps even operating systems -- Bill Gates shudders to think -- will finally begin to fall by the wayside.

It's ironic. Sun Microsystems, whose slogan was 'We put the dot in dot-com' and which more realistically amounted to 'We put the dot in the dot-com bust,' will finally gain a measure of vindication. Sun may no longer be the major player who cuts Microsoft down to size, but its Java programming language will still have a role in bringing Web apps to the people.

PCs will remain strong under Web 2.0, but Moore's Law, the notion that microprocessors will double in power every 24 months, will finally fade, not because it's not doable but because it's no longer necessary. We've got the power, now we just need efficiency, throughput and bandwidth. We want gigabit Ethernet and a clear strong signal."

What Web 2.0 Means to You

2006-01-04T15:35:00.000+00:00

What Web 2.0 Means to You: "I'm in the camp that believes that much of what Web 2.0 is about comes directly from Tim Berners-Lee's original vision of the Web. You only need to read his book, 'Weaving the Web,' to see that he envisioned the highly participatory Web we're moving toward and not the static Web from whence we came.

This means that the early Web was really a beta, and we are only now approaching Web 1.0.

Helpfully, O'Reilly founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly has put together a comprehensive document that tries to explain Web 2.0. "