112.8 million blogs on Technorati

It occurred to me this morning that I haven’t seen any recent reports about the number of blogs in the blogosphere. I posted a query on Twitter, and Luis Suarez (no, not the Luis Suarez who was voted European Footballer of the Year in 1960, but the Knowledge Management whiz at IBM) responded that he […]

Web 2.0 version 50

I’ve been accumulating new Web 2.0 materials for the past week or so, and it’s time for an update. As usual, the new version is available to you in several different formats. If you’d like to see it as an (ugly Betty) Google Docs presentation, click here. And if you’d like to make additions, […]

Kindle reviews: a smorgasborg of positive and negative opinions

While I’ve been reporting on my own personal experiences with Kindle during the past few days, several other bloggers, journalists, pundits, and techno-geeks have also been offering their opinions. What follows is almost certainly not an exhaustive collection — and even if it were, it would be obsolete by tomorrow. But it will give you […]

Kindle, Day 3: the other bells and whistles

Bottom line: the Kindle machine may be as unattractive as a Commodore 64 (to paraphrase David Pogue’s review in this morning’s New York Times), but it is a remarkably complex, sophisticated device. Indeed, I found myself muttering, “With a little more work, they could have made this as good as a Mac!” — and I […]

Web 2.0 version 49

Once again, it’s time for an update to my Web 2.0 presentation. There’s nothing really earthshaking here, but the bits and pieces of new material help round out the overall picture of what’s happening in the Web 2.0 world.
As usual, the new version is available to you in several different formats. If you’d like to […]

One Laptop Per Child: donation period from now through Nov 26th

My calendar popped up a to-do item this morning, reminding me that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) donation period begins today, and runs through November 26th. In a nutshell: you spend $400, which purchases two of the open-source, highly innovative machines known as “XO”. One laptop gets sent to you, and the other is […]

Initial thoughts on the Google Phone

I’m still absorbing some of the information that was published yesterday on the Google Phone alliance, and I don’t have any sources of “inside” information. My initial feeling is that, while it may take a few years to play out, Google’s strategy of an open-source, software-dominated mobile platform has a good chance of beating Apple’s […]

Version 47 of Ugly Betty

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 […]

Version 46 of Ugly Betty

This has been a busy week in the Web 2.0 world, especially with yesterday’s announcement of Microsoft’s investment in Facebook. So I’ve added some new items to my Web 2.0 presentation, and have made it available in the two familiar formats. If you would like to view the material on the Web, as an open, […]

Version 45 of Web 2.0 presentation

I’ve made a few more updates to the Web 2.0 presentation material, in preparation for a 2-day seminar that I’ll be giving in Rome next week (click here for details). As usual, you can access this as a Google Docs presentation, by clicking here; or you can download the 19.8-megabyte PDF version of the presentation […]