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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Version 44 of my Web 2.0 presentation

During three hectic days at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco last week, I picked up a number of interesting factoids, statistics, links, references, and other items to incorporate into my ever-growing Web 2.0 presentation. In addition, I found a few broken links in the existing material, and have fixed them. (If you [...]

Web 2.0 presentation, Version 42

It’s time for some more updates to my Web 2.0 presentation. As usual, you can view this as a Google Docs presentation (the “ugly Betty” version), by clicking here; or you can download the sexy (Brad Pitt, or Angelina Jolie, take your pick) 18.2-megabyte PDF version, by clicking here. Here are the changes/additions that I’ve [...]

Ugly Betty, V41

It’s time for a few more updates to my “ugly Betty” Web 2.0 presentation; as usual, you can view (and collaboratively edit) the Google Docs presentation document, by clicking here; or you can download the 18-megabyte PDF version by clicking here. Here’s a summary of what I’ve added and changed: On page 6, I changed [...]

Ugly Betty, version 40

I’ve added a few items to my “ugly Betty” Web 2.0 presentation. As usual, you can access it as a sharable Google Docs presentation by clicking here; or you can download the far more beautiful 17.4-megabyte PDF version by clicking here. Here’s what I’ve added to the material: On page 38: I added a bullet [...]