It’s been a busy week in the Web 2.0 world, and I’m also putting the finishing touches on a two-day Web 2.0 seminar that I’m presenting in Rome. As a result, I’ve created a new version, V47, of my Web 2.0 materials. As usual, you can view the “ugly Betty” version of these materials as a Google Docs presentation by clicking here.

Or you can download the “sexy” version, as a 22.6-megabyte PDF file, by clicking here.

Here is a summary of the additions, changes, and corrections that I’ve made to the previous version:

1. On page 94, I added an extra item to the existing bullet point about user-generated iPhone commercial, identifying another (iPod Touch) commercial — made by amateur Nick Haley — which Apple has picked up and is broadcasting this weekend during the World Series baseball games in the U.S.
2. On page 23, I added a bullet point about the fact that Comedy Central Stephen Colbert’s satirical campaign for President has out-drawn Obama’s “1,000,000 strong” campaign in 10 days. And according to this blog posting, Colbert now has 1,000,000 supporters!
3. On page 21, I added a bullet point referencing an Oct 26, 2007 Newsweek article discussing the use of Facebook as a mechanism for creating and energizing charitable contributions.
4. On page 19, I provided some additional details about the purpose of Twitter, and added a sub-bullet point indicating that its founder, Evan Williams, was inspired to create the service after emerging from a lecture at Stanford with 200 other people — all of whom immediately turned on their cellphone and called their friends to ask, “What are you doing now?”
5. On page 19, I added a bullet point describing another example of micro-blogging: Dopplr, which currently exists as an invitation-only private beta, to answer the simple question “Where are you going? And when will you be back?”
6. On page 24, I added a sub-bullet point on the page about risks of over-hyping Web 2.0, citing an Oct 26, 2007 Wired blog post indicating that Microsoft’s $240 million investment in Facebook created a $15 billion valuation for the company, and a $3 billion (paper) net worth for its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
7. On page 68, I added a new bullet point with a reference to a forthcoming (Dec 15, 2007) book by Duane Nickull, Dion Hinchcliffe, and James Governur called Web 2.0 Design Patterns: what entrepreneurs and information architects need to know. I also added the book to the list of references on page 118 of the material.
8. On page 43, I added a bullet point with a link to a Wikipedia page indicating that there are now 5,682,446 Wikipedians — because I knew that you were breathlessly waiting this statistic! And I also provided a link to another Wikipedia page that has mind-numbing statistics listing the number of Wikipedians contributing to various-language editions of the encyclopedia, from 2001 through September 2007; this mind-numbing page also tells us that in Sep. 2007, only 75,716 Wikipedians made 5 or more contributions to the encyclopedia. The rest of us are slackers! Bums! N’er-do-wells! I want to see these numbers increase significantly by next month, people, or I’m going to register a complaint with the United Nations Committee on Wikipedians!
9. Finaly, on page 43, I added a bullet point citing a fascinating article entitled “What Motivates Wikipedians?” in the November 2007 issue (yes, I know it’s not really November yet, but that’s what the magazine says; I’ve got it right here in my hands!) of Communications of the ACM. It says that the top two motivators are “fun” and “ideology”, which means that Wikipedians strongly agree with the statements “Writing/editing in Wikipedia is fun,” and “I think information should be free.” The lowest two motivators are “social” (”People want me to write/edit in Wikipedia”), and “career” (”I can make new contacts that might help my business or career.”)

That’s it for now; I’ll be busy presenting this material for the next couple of days, and then I have to focus on some other things for a while. But I’ll be watching the blogosphere and the Internet for new developments in the Web 2.0 world; stay tuned for further updates in the weeks ahead!