Here’s a summary of the additions, changes, and corrections that I made in V54; for convenience, you’ll also find that they appear in red in the PDF materials, so you can see what has changed since V52 and V53:

1. On page 70, I added Google Maps to the list of Ajax examples.
2. On page 84, I added Google App Engine to the list of interesting products from Google.
3. On page 85, I provided a new (working) link and details about Zimbra.
4. On page 87, I added a link to IBM’s new “Bluehouse” product.
5. On pages 89-90, I added two new pages of details on the iPhone 3g.
6. On page 91, I provided additional details on CIsco’s acquisition of Five Across.
7. On page 132, I added a bullet point with a link to Nicholas Carr’s article on “Is Google Making Us Stupid?“

I probably won’t do any more updates for another week or two, but this should keep you busy for a while. Enjoy…

Here’s a summary of the additions, changes, and corrections that I made in V53; for convenience, you’ll also find that they appear in red in the PDF materials, so you can see what has changed since V52:

1. On page 6, I noted that the Michael Wesch “The Machine Is (Us)ing Us” video has now been viewed 5.6 million times, as of Jun 8, 2008.
2. On page 8, I added a bullet point indicating that while the “long tail” is not one of the main “Web 2.0 tools,” it is a “related concept”
3. On page 15, in the discussion of “risks of Web 2.0″ platform, I noted that the comparison between the Keynote/PDF version of this presentation, against the Google Apps version, was so bad that I recently deleted the Google Apps version altogether.
4. On page 17, I added a note to indicate that the chart showing usage of various technologies — including the Internet and Web 2.0 — was taken from a 2006 survey that had been cited on the previous page.
5. On page 20, I updated the Twitter example with a screen shot from my Twitter home page as of this morning.
6. On page 24, I updated the count of Twitter users to 1,811,515 as of Jun 8, 2008. I also added a new bullet point citing a Business Week article indicating that Obama and Clinton each had approximately 30,000 Twitter followers during their primary campaigns, but Obama used his more effectively.
7. On page 26, I changed the first bullet point to indicate that Zappos is a shoe-selling company, not a shoe-manufacturing company.
8. On pages 29-30, I updated the Dopplr example with screen shots from my Dopplr home page as of this morning, which shows that I’m in Rome, along with various other details about who’s in Rome, who’s in my home town of New York, etc.
9. On page 35, I added a couple of sub-bullet points about MySpace, indicating (a) that it’s larger than every other nation except China, India, the U.S., and Indonesia; and (b) that I had written a blog posting about this issue, titled “A United Nations Seat for Myspace?“
10. On page 37, I updated a note about Obama’s “Yes, We Can” video, indicating that as of Jun 8, 2008 it has now been viewed 8.0 million times.
11. On page 75, I added a citation to a blog posting entitled “Did Rails Sink Twitter?“
12. On page 80, I updated the first bullet point to indicate that the book Web 20 Design Patterns is no longer “forthcoming”; it has now been published.
13. On page 85, I updated a bullet point to indicate that, as of Jun 8, 2008, it was still unclear whether Yahoo would continue as an independent company, be acquired by Microsoft, or consummate some kind of marketing/advertising arrangement with Google.
14. On page 87, which discusses IBM’s activities in the Web 2.0 world, I added a note that IBM now has a Vice President of Social Engineering.
15. On page 88, I added a “placeholder” bullet point for the iPhone 2.0 that is scheduled to be announced/released on June 9th; and I also modified a bullet point to reflect my belief that Apple’s distribution of iPhone software apps via iTunes will represent an interesting example of the “long tail” concept.
16. On page 123, which discusses technology trends, I added a note to the bullet point asking whether computers might someday exceed human intelligence — noting that the June 2008 IEEE Spectrum journal has a special report, entitled “The Rapture of the Geeks: separating science from fiction in the technological singularity”
17. On page 127, I added a bullet point indicating that senior executives’ acceptance/non-acceptance of social networks & Web 2.0 will become a more and more significant differentiator; I also included a citation to a recent Wall Street Journal interview with Clay Shirky.
18. On page 130, I added a bullet point with a citation to another paper discussing the use of Web 2.0 in educational environments.
19. On page 134, I added a bullet point with the publishing details of Clay Shirky’s new book, Here Comes Everybody: the power of organizing without organizations.

As usual, you can download the 33-megabyte PDF version of this presentation by clicking here, or on the icon below; you can also download it as a 34-megabyte Powerpoint file by clicking here. It’s published under the GNU Free Documentation license (GFDL), so you’re welcome to modify the material and reuse it any way you want, free of charge; the second page of the presentation provides the usual caveat emptor disclaimers. The material is also available/downloadable as a Powerpoint file from my Slideshare page; but because Google limits the size of uploaded presentations to 10 megabytes (along with several other annoying limitations), it’s no longer available on Google Docs. If you’d like me to make the material available in some other format, or on some other hosting site, please drop me an email note and let me know.

Here’s a summary of the material that I’ve added since the last version

1. On page 5, I updated the count of YouTube downloads of Michael Wesch’s “The Machine is (us)ing Us“; it’s now up to 5.5 million downloads.
2. Also on page 5, I added a bullet point with a link to a YouTube video that provides an audiovisual explanation/definition of Web 2.0, based on the Wikipedia article.
3. Also on page 5, I added a bullet point with a link to a sarcastic YouTube spoof, entitled Restaurant 2.0.
4. On page 18, I added a bullet point with a link to a Business Week article on “Beyond Blogs“.
5. On pages 19-25, I added several new pages of material to show the Twitter website (for those who have no idea what Twitter is all about), the Twhirl client-side tweet-reader (which runs on both Windows and Mac computers), Tweetstats. and several other aspects of Twitter.
6. On page 19, I added a description of Twitter that I got via a “tweet” from a Twitter user: “IM is real-time, person-to-person communication while Twitter is baby email with everyone where you get to pick whose msgs to read.”
7. Also on page 19, I added a bullet point with a link to a case study showing how a small business is using Twitter.
8. On page 22, I added a new page to show an example of Tweetwheel.
9. On page 23, I added a bullet point with a link to a slide show that describes the difference between email, IM, blogging, and Twittering.
10. Also on page 23: I added a bullet point with a link to a St. Louis newspaper article about using Twitter to provide real-time information about the traffic impact of a repair-shutdown of a busy highway in the area. I added the same information to an existing link on page 100, which discusses the use of Web 2.0 in government.
11. On page 24, I updated the statistics about Twitter to show that it had 1,752,793 subscribers as of May 30, 2008 (which, by the way, represents almost twice as many as the 952,517 subscribers that existed on March 29th); I also added a link to this chart, which shows Twitter’s recent exponential growth. I think Twitter is going mainstream, and will really begin to scale up at this point (if its architecture can handle it, which is very much an open question at this point. If you’re interested in keeping up with the statistics about Twitter’s growth, consult Twitstats whenever you want.
12. Also on page 24: I added a bullet point with a link to GroupTweet.
13. Also on page 24: I added a bullet point link to my blog article about “Twitter in Plain English“.
14. Also on page 24: I added a bullet point with a link to Dan Farber’s May 18, 2008 blog discussing some interesting statistics about the ratio of followers to following that one sees on Twitter.
15. Also on page 24: I added a bullet point link to a blog posting on “What is Twitter Used For? The Message is the Medium“; also, from the same author, “What is Twitter For?“
16. Also on page 24: I added a bullet point with a link to an online store that now carries “Eat. Sleep. Tweet.” t-shirts.
17. On page 25, I added a bullet point with a link to Dan Farber’s Apr 28, 2008 blog posting on “What Twitter Brings to the Party“.
18. Also on page 25, I added a bullet point with a link to a new service called Tweetcube, which supports file-sharing of files, via Twitter, of up to 10 megabytes.
19. Also on page 25, I added a bullet point with a link to an article about “tweetjects” and “blogjects” (i.e., objects that tweet and blog); and I provided some examples, including the twittering London Tower Bridge, and a twittering house (see also this article from Wired).
20. Also on page 25, I added a bullet point with a link to Tweetclouds, which lets you see which words you use most frequently in your twitter messages.
21. Also on page 25, I added a bullet point with a link to Twitterphone.
22. On (new) page 26, I displayed part of the Zappos Twitter page, as well as a link to a Harvard Business Publishing article entitled “Why Zappos Pays New Employees To Quit — and You Should Too“.
23. On page 28, I eliminated the “private beta” description of Dopplr. It’s now open to the public.
24. Also on page 28: I added a bullet point to indicate that Dopplr is now integrated with LinkedIn, Twitter, Gmail, and Flickr in order to help build a larger network of one’s “fellow travelers”.
25. On pages 29-31, I added more detailed slides to explain what Dopplr is all about.
26. On page 37, I updated the bullet point about Obama’s “1984″ YouTube spoof; as of May 28, 2008, it now has 5.2 million downloads.
27. Also on page 37: I added a bullet point with a link to the Obama “Yes, We Can” YouTube video — and indicated that as of May 28, 2008 it had 7.7 million downloads.
28. On pages 32-33, I added two new pages of material about special-purpose social-networking sites, and a screen shot of interesting YouTube presentations.
29. On page 46, I added a bullet point with a link to a recent CIO article indicating that enterprise mashups are on the rise.
30. On page 47, I added a bullet point with a link to the “ultimate Yahoo Pipes mashup list“. I also added a bullet point with a link to the Yahoo Pipes Twitter link monitor, which provides a stream of Twitter tweets that contain URL’s.
31. On page 62, I added a bullet point with a link to a mini-wiki tool called Backboard.
32. On page 76, I added a bullet point with a link to an article discussing rumors that Twitter may abandon its use of Ruby on Rails.
33. On page 85, I added a bullet point with a link to an Aprill 30, 2008 Information Week article summarizing Oracle’s plans to build a Web 2.0-friendly version of its enterprise apps.
34. On page 87, which lists several Web 2.0-related things going on at IBM, I added a bullet point with a link to IBM Rocks; and I added a bullet point with a link to a recent article about IBM’s Web 2.0 tools and plans; and I also added a bullet point with a link to a Business Week article about IBM’s use of social networking.
35. On page 88, I added a bullet point with a link to the Wikipedia article summarizing the basics of Microsoft’s Sharepoint product for blogs and wikis.
36. On page 99, I added a bullet point link to David Pogue’s March 27, 2008 New York Times column on “Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0?” And I also added a bullet point with a link to a May 6, 2008 CIO Australia article entitled “Enterprise 2.0: what is it good for?“
37. Page 99, with a list of “trends in large companies” got so crowded and busy that I broke it in half, and put the second half on a (new) page 98.
38. On page 103, I added a bullet point with a link to an interesting example of a “laggard” culture: 20% of the U.S. population has never used e-mail.
39. On page 105, I added a bullet point with a link to a Harvard Business School podcast on strategies for succeeding with social networking technologies in the enterprise.
40. On page 126 about ubiquitous/pervasive computing, I added a bullet point with a link to the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing.
41. On page 128, I added a new page about future UI paradigms, suggesting that (based on examples like Tweetwheel, Digg’s UI research, and IBM Rocks) some of them are likely to come from Web 2.0 vendors, startups, and inspired individuals. I also added a bullet point, with a link to Cisco’s recently-announced holographic video-conferencing technology (and I added a link to the Cisco announcement on page 90, which summarizes Cisco’s other Web 2.0 initiatives).
42. On page 99, I added a bullet point with a link to a recent McKinsey survey, summarizing usage of Web 2.0 in businesses.
43. On page 104, I added a bullet point with a link to the transparentgovt website, which has a list of about half a dozen countries whose governments are doing interesting things with Web 2.0
44. On page 126, I added a bullet point with a link to a blog posting indicating that Colombia has recently ordered 65,000 of the $100 OLPC computers, for distribution to its children. I also added a bullet point summarizing plans for a 2010-release of the 2nd-generation OLPC computer, with a link to a press release with more details.
45. Also on page 126: courtesy of Tim O’Reilly, who brought my attention to a May 31, 2008 New York Times article that I skimmed this morning but ignored, I’ve now added a bullet point on the page about ubiquitous computing to the article, which discusses billboards that are connected to the Internet, and which watch consumer reactions as they walk by.
46. On page 135, I deleted a bunch of Web 2.0 conferences that have already taken place, and added a June 25, 2008 event: International Conference on Enterprise 2.0, in Varese, Italy. I also added bullet points for upcoming Web 2.0 conferences such as SuperNova 2008 in San Francisco (June 16-18); Social Networking Conference in San Francisco (Jul 10-11); FOWA in London (Oct 8-10); Web 2.0 Expo in New York City (Sep 16-19); and the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco (Nov 5-7) . I also updated the details for the Wikimania 2008 conference in beautiful downtown Alexandria, Egypt.
47. On page 136, I added a parenthetical note to indicate that The ClueTrain Manifesto is now ten years old! (which simply demonstrates how easy it is for some companies to ignore major trends for a decade…) I also added a new book to the list: Social Networks Around The World: How is Web 2.0 Changing Your Daily Life?

I also tried to add a visual/graphic image to each page, so you wouldn’t be forced to stare at nothing but a page full of text (actually, I’m not so worried about the impact on people who look at the material on their computer screen; I’m more concerned about audiences falling asleep when I present the material in my seminar). But you should be aware that virtuall every image/graphic that you see is hyperlinked to some non-trivial material — e.g., a Website, an article, a YouTube video, etc. So don’t be fooled by pretty pictures; there’s content behind it.

I’ll probably be making some minor updates to the material during the seminar presentation in Rome next week, so check back from time to time to see if there is a new “V53″ version available.

But in addition to his emphasis on “Asia” and “Automation,” Pink also emphasizes the impact of “Abundance” — arguing that the enormous abundance of products and services available to today’s middle-class population around the world means that “features and functions” will be overshadowed by design, form, and other right-brain aspects of the product/service. For example, there are probably a couple hundred different cell phones to choose from — from Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG, and other manufacturers around the world — and with rare exceptions, they all have pretty much the same features and functions (including many that we never use!). Even with the iPhone, one could argue that what really makes it popular is not the innovative “features” like visual voice mail, but rather the fact that it’s just so damned cool and sexy-looking.

Pink uses this point to help justify the importance of conceptual, right-brain thinking, which he then discusses in detail for most of the remainder of the book. But I think we’re going to see a lot more discussion and analysis of this “abundance” theme in the years to come, especially when it’s combined with the “free” concept that people such as long-tail maven Chris Anderson have been talking about. I haven’t got my thoughts about “free” and “abundance” completely organized yet, and I suspect that there’s already some good information out there on the Internet somewhere (though Googling the two words generated a fairly bizarre list of hits). But here are a few initial thoughts; if you have any suggestions on where I might look for more insights, I’d appreciate hearing from you:

1. While science, engineering, automation, and various other new technologies may enable ever more abundant, and ever less expensive tangible products and services, I don’t see any obvious way to make time more abundant. Maybe we can develop technologies that will make it unnecessary for humans to sleep; but there will still only be 24 hours available in each day.
2. This suggests that there will be more and more emphasis on the trade-offs between increasingly abundant, nearly free “things” and the limited amount of time we all have available. And there will be more emphasis on things that save time, or that act as “time substitutes.”
3. Not everything is becoming abundant instantaneously, and many organizations (and governments, and cultures, and people) are slow to recognize when things have become abundant and nearly free. A simple example: wire coat hangers are so abundant and inexpensive that nobody (at least in developed countries) pays any attention to them. But how many times have you checked into a hotel where the coat hangers have been deliberately designed — like the one shown here — so that hotel guests will be disinclined to steal them, because they won’t “work” in a normal closet? I can steal the hotel’s towels, pillowcases, and probably even the flat-screen TV set in the room; but god forbid I should walk off with one of their cheesy coat hangers!
4. Many of our attitudes about the abundance and cost of today’s products and services were created when we were relatively young, because our parents (who lived in a world of much less abundance) impressed upon us the need to use those products and services carefully and efficiently. When I was a kid growing up in the 1950s, for example, our family had a strict rule of turning off the electric lights whenever we left a room — even if we planned to return in a few minutes — because electricity was so expensive. Ditto with air-conditioning, televisions, or any other appliance that consumed precious electricity. Try imposing that discipline on today’s generation.
5. By contrast, some things used to be cheap, and are no longer so: when I got my first car, gas was only 25 cents a gallon. I’m not sure whether people like Daniel Pink have thought enough about the “natural resources” (which include such things as water and clean air, in addition to petroleum) that are growing more and more scarce… Of course, the optimists might argue that new technologies will help us create energy sources to replace petroleum; and maybe we’ll find a way to desalinate the oceans so that it won’t matter that we’ve drained our rivers and lakes. But I doubt that such scientific advances will happen quickly enough, or that we’ve given much serious thought to the side-effects of such advances…
6. When things are scarce and expensive, it seems inevitable that someone (or some organization, or some government power) ends up owning them and/or controlling them — which, among other things, means regulating who, what, where, when and how those things are used. And when those same things gradually become more plentiful and less expensive, the same individuals, organizations, and/or government agencies often try to maintain control … even when they have less and less ability to do so. In the 1960s and 1970s, for example, computers were so scarce and expensive that only large companies could afford them; and the IT department determined who could use that computing power, and under what circumstances. Today, some 30-40 years later, the IT departments often behave as if they’re still in control — even though every employee, customer, and citizen carries around more computing power in his/her pocket than existed in the mainframe data center a decade or two ago. It’s always a shock when the “authorities” in charge of controlling those scarce resources suddenly realize they’ve become irrelevant…

Well, that’s all I’ve come with for the moment … I’ll let you know if I find some other intelligent thoughts on the subject.

In addition to fixing a number of broken and erroneous hyperlinks, based on the work done for me recently by GetFriday.com (see my December 17, 2006 blog posting about this outsourcing project), I’ve also added a bunch of new material. Here’s a summary of the additions and changes that I’ve made:

1. On page 18, I updated the count of existing blogs, based on the information from the Technorati “about us” page, which says “Currently tracking 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.”
2. On page 19, I replaced the wild estimate of Twitter users (and Scobleizer’s irrelevant rebuttal of that estimate) with a more accurate figure from TwitDir: as of 12/26/2007, there were 705,202 Twitterers.
3. Also on page 19, I added a bullet point about the Los Angeles Fire Department’s twitter feed, which was apparently initiated during the October 2007 California wildfires — but was still operational when I checked it this afternoon, and seems to be used by citizens to report events in real time.
4. Also on page 19, I added a bullet point, with links to blog postings here and here and here and here, about the use of Twitter in the enterprise, by the CIO of British Telecom’s Global Services unit, JP Rangaswami.
5. On page 83, I added a bullet point with a link to Digg Explorer, an interesting visual tool for exploring the significance of the most recent 500 Digg stories. And I inserted a bullet point, and also a screen-shot of Kelly Grannis‘ “Gotta Digg!” video, which I blogged about yesterday.
6. On page 90, I added a news update about CleverCommute.com, which is now serving commuters in Boston as well as the metropolitan NYC area.
7. On page 73, I added a bullet point on the page about Google, citing Google Charts as an example of the various Google products that are created as a result of its HR strategy, which allows employees to spend 20% of their time working on their own research projects.
8. Also on page 73, I added a bullet point about the recent NPD survey indicating that 73% of Americans had never heard of Google Docs, and that 94% had never used it.
9. Also on page 73, I added a bullet point about Google’s Knol project, and a link to my blog posting about it.
10. On page 100, I added a bullet point with a link to a Dec 2007 Pew survey of teenage trends for various forms of communication via phone, email, instant-messaging, etc.
11. On page 101, I added a new page with a table that summarizes the afore-mentioned teenage trends.
12. On (new) page 114, I added a link to the December 16, 2007 New York Times article about the emerging competitive “rumble” between Microsoft and Google, entitled “Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft.”
13. On (new) page 120, I deleted all of the bullet points for Web 2.0 conferences that took place in 2007; and with the help of my son, Jamie Nash Yourdon, I added about half a dozen vintage-2008 Web 2.0 conferences. I’m not going to list them all here; if it matters to you, you’ll need to look at the actual presentation document.

That’s it for now. I suspect it will be another couple of weeks before I update this material again, if only because I’ll be gone all next week, taking a much-needed winter vacation with my family…

If you’d like to download the 24.2-megabyte PDF file, which looks much prettier and now has more than 500 embedded URL links to various Web 2.0 books, conferences, articles, blog postings, and other resources, click here.

The same PDF document can be viewed and downloaded from my page on Slideshare; to access that, click here.

Here are the additions, changes, corrections, and refinements that I’ve added to this version:

1. On page 20, I created a new page with some additional information about microblogs that would no longer fit on the old page 19. In particular, I added a sub-bullet item linking to a Dopplr case study published by Stowe Boyd, based on a presentation he gave at Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin in November, 2007.
2. On (new) page 115, I added a new bullet point that links to an article, “The Death of Email,” indicating that the younger generation is abandoning traditional email in favor of IM, Facebook, and Twitter.
3. On (new) page 86, I added a bullet point linking to Tom Davenport’s November 13, 2007 Harvard Business blog about why Facebook won’t succeed in the corporate environment. An opposing viewpoint was posted on the same blog a few days earlier by Forrester Research’s Charlene Li, entitled “Why Your Company Needs To Be on Facebook.”
4. Also on (new) page 86, I added an example on the bullet point about social networking becoming a business tool: in mid-November 2007, the first “enterprise application for Facebook” was announced.
5. Also on (new) page 86, I added a bullet point with a link to a Nov 16, 2007 Computerworld article entitled, “Corporate blogging: does it really work?“
6. On (new) page 112, I added a note about the forthcoming Gumby device, as an example of “ambient devices“.
7. On (new) page 79, I added a bullet point about a “negative” social network called “WeNeither.”
8. On (old) page 19, I added a sub-bullet point indicating that Twitter has even invaded popular television shows — appearing on an episode of CSI New York.
9. On (old) page 13, I added a bullet point for another Web-based service, LiveDocuments, which announced in mid-November 2007. And I provided a link to a commentary on the new service from Nicholas Carr.
10. On (new) page 111, I added a bullet point with a link to a Nov 24, 2007 Wall Street Journal article, “A Little Laptop with Big Ambitions,” describing competitive/political battles that Nicholas Negroponte is having with Intel and Microsoft while trying to promote the One Laptop Per Child On project.
11. On (old) page 10, I added a new bullet point about Kindle to the list of items about how the publishing world is going to be changed by Web 2.0; I reference Steven Levy’s Nov 17, 2007 Newsweek article, “The Future of Reading,” as well as my own recent blog reviews of Kindle, and my recent blog posting that summarizes six other Kindle reviews.
12. On (new) page 28, I added a couple of sub-bullet points to the existing bullet point describing Web 1.0 as “static” content; and I included a link to fleck.com, which lets people annotate and mark up arbitrary web pages.
13. On (new) page 50, I added a sub-bullet point beneath the existing comment about “crowdsourcing,” and provided a link to Google’s crowdsourcing initiative with Google Maps, described as “think globally, mark locally.”

That’s all I’ve got for the moment, though I’m sure more material will emerge in the coming days. Be on the lookout for version 51 in the next week or two…

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, corrections, improvements, or enhancements to this collaborative document, please sent me an email (“ed” at “yourdon”-dot-com); there about about a dozen registered collaborators now, though it doesn’t look like anyone has been brave enough to edit the material yet.

If you’d like to download the 22.7-megabyte PDF file, which looks much prettier and now has more than 500 embedded URL links to various Web 2.0 books, conferences, articles, blog postings, and other resources, click here.

The same PDF document can be viewed and downloaded from my page on Slideshare; to access that, click here.

Here are the additions, changes, corrections, and refinements that I’ve added to this version:

1. On page 20 of the material, I corrected a reference to the spring 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. I had incorrectly listed it as “UVA” (i.e., University of Virginia, which ain’t the same school at VA Tech; sorry about that). To compound the problem, the link to Wikipedia was broken. Oh, well …
2. On page 74, I added a sub-bullet noting that Microsoft Windows Live was released from beta on November 6th. Civilization didn’t grind to a halt, but I assume it was significant news to at least a few people …
3. On page 38, I provided an example of the “long tail” recommendation of making at least a portion of one’s product line free — the example being the proposal (in Europe) to provide “free cars.” Sounds crazy until you contemplate this intriguing factoid: he cost of the average used car in Europe is now cheaper than the cost of gasoline to drive it for a year.
4. On page 19, I added a sub-bullet, noting Brady Forest’s blog on the “coincidence feed” feature of Dopplr, announced 11/7/07, and the related concept of REDUCING amount of information in a feed
5. On page 51, I added a sub-bullet point, noting that a “pilot project” to experiment with external wikis doesn’t have to be a massive, high-risk effort. The example is an “emergent collaboration” effort involving SAP, Oracle, and others to develop a Twitter-based tool called “eventtrack.”
6. On page 85, I added a bullet point with a blog summarizing IBM’s experience with social software, and its impact on knowledge management.
7. On page 33, I added the wonderful mashup example of Google Maps’ “interactive transit map” for New York City. But I also deleted the bullet point listing the Google Maps mashup showing the location of the Southern California wildfires in Oct 2007 … because they’re all gone now, and there’s nothing to show.
8. On page 116, I added a sub-bullet point entitled “Web 2.0 Manages to Sober Up“
9. On page 62, I added a bullet point listing Hungry Machine as an example of Ruby on Rails … actually, it’s not an example of a product per se, but rather the name of a company that develops Ruby-on-Rails apps for Facebook.
10. On page 98, I added a bullet point listing a Nov 11, 2007 blog posting describing the recent activity by Nigerian scammers to use Facebook for phishing attacks. The fact that anyone falls for this stuff is mind-boggling, but even if their success rate is only one in a million, Facebook (and Myspace) are big enough now that a few scammers might be able to make a decent living…
11. On page 47, I added some details to indicate that as of Nov 13, 2007, Flickr acquired its 2-billionth photograph. That’s a lot of pictures!
12. On page 114, I added a bullet point with a link to a wonderful Internet love song, entitled “ROFLOMGLOLROFLMFAO“

That’s it for now … I’ll start collecting items for version 50, which will probably take place sometime next week, in between bouts of Thanksgiving turkey-gobbling …

Based on a suggestion from someone attending my Web 2.0 seminar in Rome a couple weeks ago, I’ve also made the “native” mind-map document available; it’s about 21.4 megabytes in size, and you can download it by clicking here. You’re welcome to add, delete, or modify anything you want; but to do that, you’ll need the mind-mapping tool that I used to create the document: it’s called ConceptDraw MindMap, and it’s available for both Windows and Macintosh by clicking here (disclosures: it costs a couple hundred dollars, and I have no business relationship of any kind with the company that makes it). Alternatively, if you’re content to view the mind-map in a read-only format, you can download a free copy of ConceptDraw Viewer (in either WIndows or Mac format) by clicking here. I found the “viewer” program to be extremely slow and clumsy (though it might be speedier when dealing with a small mind-map), but it does give you the ability to expand and collapse the outline-hierarchy of mind-map branches, as well as navigating from page to page. For more straightforward uses of the mind-map, I think the PDF document is probably adequate, but the choice is yours.

The primary change in this version of the mind-map is a reorganization of subordinate topics (or sub-branches) into separate pages; the whole thing had gotten so complex that several of the pages were almost impossible to read, with tiny font-sizes required in order to cram everything onto a single page. As a result, what was previously a 16-page mind-map has now grown to a 32-page mind-map; everything is now simpler, larger, and easier to read. Unfortunately, it has also doubled the size of the PDF document from what it used to be; I hope that won’t be too much of an inconvenience.

I may need to make some additional refinements in future versions; among other things, on the PDF export (and with the ConceptDraw Viewer program) the hyper-linked navigation paths from various branches in high-level pages to the lower-level details on subordinate pages are not visually obvious. This is annoying, because the page-to-page hyperlinks do have a visual annotation in the native ConceptDraw mind-map document; but that won’t be of any use to you unless you decide to invest in a full-blown copy of the ConceptDraw mind-mapping tool itself.

For now, I recommend that you take a look at the names I’ve given to each page in the mind-map, which should help indicate which pages are “high-level” and which ones are “subordinate.” Also, roll your mouse slowly over any terminating branches in a high-level page, and see if a little pop-up message appears that says “go to page n.” If it’s an “external” hyperlink (i.e., a link to something outside the mind-map itself, somewhere on the Internet), the text will have the familiar blue, underlined format; but if it’s an “internal” hyperlink (i.e., to some other page of the mind-map), the text won’t show any special formatting, but when you roll your mouse slowly over the text, the cursor should change from a pointy-arrow to a pointy-finger (at least that’s what it does on my Mac; I don’t know how it behaves on other platforms). Also, remember that all of the subordinate pages are hyper-linked back to their parent-page; all you need to do is click in the central, yellow-colored “topic” bubble in the middle of each such subordinate page.

Meanwhile, here’s a summary of the changes and revisions that I’ve made in this version:

1. Several of the branches that had been highlighted in a red color, for the benefit of people attending my recent Web 2.0 seminar in Rome, have now been changed back to the original black (or blue) text format.
2. On the “Introduction – Society” page, on the branch labeled “Blogs”, I updated a link to a page describing current statistics about the state of the blogosphere — indicating that there are now 71 million blogs, with 175,000 new blogs being added every day.
3. On the “Conferences” branch of the “References” page, I’ve updated the link to last year’s WIkimania 2006 conference, and the link now points to the Web page for Wikimania 2007 in Taiwan.
4. On the “Trends – New UI” page, I’ve added a link to Apple’s web page for the forthcoming iPhone — having looked at it again yesterday while writing my blog posting titled “Waiting for Apple’s Leopard,” I really do think this is one example of a new UI trend.
5. On the “Trends – Social/Cultural” page, I’ve added a new link to the video clip entitled “Shift happens,” which I summarized in this recent blog posting.
6. On the “tools” branch of the “Themes – Mashups” page, I’ve added a link to a MacWorld article by Google’s MyMaps mashup.
7. On the branch labeled “Ed’s list of corporate blogging policies” on the “Business – Large Companies” page, I’ve added a new link to a blog article I wrote a couple months ago, entitled “What A Company’s Blogging Policy Says To Its Employees.”
8. On the branch labeled “Blurring of (some) political boundaries” on the “Trends – Social/Cultural” page, I’ve added a new link to the “Shift Happens” video clip mentioned above, which (among other things) points out that the 106 million registered MySpace users represent a “network nation” that ranks 11th in the world, between Japan and Mexico.
9. On the “References” page, I removed the branch (and link) to the “Dead Web 2.0″ site; it’s no longer functioning, though it promises to come back at some point in the future.

That’s it for now. I may add a few more odds and ends before I head up to Boston on Tuesday, but this should keep you occupied for a while…