July 20th, 2006
During an interesting lunch conversation with Brian Pontarelli (more about him and his company in a separate posting, probably tomorrow), I learned about an interesting new business/website called WikiBios.com.
The basic idea is that if I write my own bio, on my own website, there’s no particular reason for anyone else to believe it; at the […]
July 19th, 2006
My friend Tom DeMarco sent an email note this morning to a few of his colleagues, in which he made several eloquent points about History, Culture, Science, and the Nature of Man (at least as it pertains to the IT industry), as a preamble to recommending an article by Luis von Ahn in the June […]
July 17th, 2006
Reading through Chris Anderson’s Long Tail blog, I spotted an interesting posting (which he attributes to a posting in Steve Rubel’s blog) indicating that Wikipedia now has RSS feeds. This means that if there’s a topic that is (a) sufficiently “mainstream” to be covered by Wikipedia, but (b) sufficiently volatile and dynamic that updates and […]
July 16th, 2006
I’ve just uploaded version v011 of my Web 2.0 mind-map; you can download the PDF file (3.7 megabytes) from the www.yourdon.com/downloads area of my website, or by clicking here. (8/1: I’ve deleted version v011, and replaced it with version v016, which you can download here.)
I’ve added a lot of new material to the “cultural […]
July 12th, 2006
News travels almost instantaneously in today’s wired world; we all expect to be able to watch the news, as it’s happening, on CNN. But other parts of the Internet are also moving quickly: David Weinberger has posted a blog entry this morning indicating that there’s already a blog and a wiki to help people […]
July 10th, 2006
For the past few weeks, I’ve been playing around with Web 2.0-related stuff on an experimental blog-site that I set up on my Apple .Mac account. But I’ve now got a better idea of I want to do, so I’m going to start moving things back over here; you’ll see more and more details emerge […]
July 9th, 2006
Having just returned from Amsterdam yesterday, I’ve got a pile of mail and chores that I should be working on. But I wanted to record my impressions of Kevin Kelly’s keynote presentation at the “Next Web” conference while my memories are still somewhat fresh. Bottom line: if you’ve been feeling jaded, skeptical, or even cynical […]
July 8th, 2006
I’m still absorbing all of the presentations and demonstrations that I saw at the “Next Web” conference in Amsterdam yesterday, and will probably write several more blog postings over the next few days, as I digest all of the material; I’ll just make general observations and summary comments in this posting.
Overall: it’s hard to avoid […]
July 7th, 2006
The first session at the Web 2.0 conference this morning is being presented by Tim Roe, Director of Data Analytics at Nielsen//NetRatings. He overwhelmed the audience of roughly 200 people with dozens of charts about the status and growth of the Internet in the European Union (EU) versus the U.S. Bottom line: there are […]
July 6th, 2006
I’m in Amsterdam, de-jet-lagging in preparation for a Web 2.0 conference tomorrow. It looks like a timely and relevant conference, and the participants are coming from 14 countries. The agenda looks interesting, and I’m hoping to get a better sense of how the European marketplace is reacting to Web 2.0 technologies, cultural trends, and business […]
