Web 2.0, version 51

I’ve been slowly accumulating new Web 2.0 material during the past month, and it’s time for an update. As usual, you can access the presentation in a variety of formats, although I haven’t yet had time to upload the “ugly Betty” version to Google Apps. For now, you can view it, and/or download it, from […]

Google’s Knol

Bottom line: Google is going to begin hosting a hosting a collection of author-expert postings on various topics, in the hopes that it will represent an alternative to the collection of 2+ million anonymous community-homogenized articles on Wikipedia. My prediction: yes, it will probably succeed (regardless of whether it’s a good thing or a bad […]

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, Day 2: Reading the New York Times

Here are a couple of observations about reading newspapers on the new Kindle e-reader. First: reading is a ritual, which most of us begin practicing at an early age. Second: it’s not easy changing a ritual, especially when it’s been reinforced for a long time, on a daily basis. Third: rituals have nuances and details, […]

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 […]

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 48 of Ugly Betty

Once again, it’s been a busy week in the Web 2.0 world. I’ve accumulated another bunch of new material, as well as some fixes to broken links and minor editing/rerwording of existing material.
As usual, the new version is available to you in several different formats. If you’d like to see it as an (ugly Betty) […]

Flock

At the suggestion of IBM’s knowledge-management/social-networking wizard, Luis Suarez (not to be confused with the football and baseball players also named Luis Suarez, described here in Wikipedia!), I downloaded a new Web browser called Flock last night (click here to see Luis’ review of Flock). A beta version has been available for quite a while, […]

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 […]