Well, either I’m incredibly stupid, or Google Docs has a bug in it … or possibly both. But in any case, the “ugly Betty” version of my Web 2.0 presentation, which I discussed in this recent blog post, and which you can view here as a Google Docs presentation, has disappeared from my Google Docs home page. This means I can’t change it, can’t share it, can’t publish it, can’t do anything with it. I have no idea how this happened, and after trying unsuccessfully to solve the problem with the “troubleshooting” instructions in Google’s “help” page, I gave up and sent the Google wizards a desperate email this morning. For all I know, they get a gazillion such messages a day (maybe even a “google” of such messages, heh heh), but roughly 12 hours have passed, and I’ve decided to move on while I’m waiting for a response.

While waiting, I’ve made 10 change/additions to the Apple Keynote version of the presentation (thus demonstrating another reason to keep an offline version of one’s presentation, in a somewhat more reliable and dependable format), and I’ve exported the updated document to a 9.5-megabyte PDF document, which you can download by clicking here:

Here’s a summary of the new information I’ve added:

1. On page 5: I added a new bullet point (without any hyperlinks) that says, “Many people feel they don’t really understand what Web 2.0 is all about, and there aren’t any good, simple definitions.”
2. On page 12: I added a link to an article describing the acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity (publisher of the Buzzword word processor) by Adobe, as of 9/30/07
3. On page 26: in the second bullet point, about Enterprise 2.0, I added a parenthetical comment, suggesting that people interested in the concept take a look at an MIT Sloan Review article, “Enterprise 2.0: the dawn of emergent collaboration,” which is now available free.
4. On page 37: the last bullet point, which says “This Web 2.0 Google Docs presentation!” was turned into a hyperlink, which actually points to the orphaned V36 “ugly Betty” Google Docs presentation that I can’t seem to locate on my Google Docs home page at the moment. Hopefully I’ll be able to fix this, at some point in the future…
5. On page 38: I added a bullet point that contains a link to an article about on aspect of the “1% rule” — i.e., that 2% of Wiki users generate 60% of it content.
6. On page 68: I changed the entry (and hyperlink) for Microsoft’s “WIndows Life” to “Microsoft Office Live,” which is now available in beta form, as an alternative to Google Docs; and I also added a reference to Mary Jo Foley’s summary of what it is …
7. On page 72: I added a bullet point referencing a different article about the “one percent rule” (i.e., different than the one mentioned on page 38, which discusses the phenomenon in more general terms.
8. On page 77: I added a new bullet point, referencing a Fall 2007 survey on the personal use of Web 2.0 technologies by CIO’s.
9. On page 79: I added a bullet point, referencing IBM’s Luis Suarez blog posting on making the business case for social computing.
10. On page 80: I added a new bullet point, referencing an October 2, 2007 Infoworld article about Web 2.0 security risks associated with the common blending of personal and corporate computing lives.

If I’ve counted correctly, this version of the Web 2.0 presentation has a total of approximately 437 hyperlinks to external magazine and newspaper articles, blog postings, Amazon pages, vendor websites, and various other sources of information that I think you’ll find useful. It should be enough to keep you busy for a few days … and I’m sure I’ll have more material to add within the next week or so.

… and hopefully I’ll be able to find my orphaned Google Docs presentation, and incorporate the ten items of information summarized above.