Future of Web 2.0

I’m giving a short presentation on the “future of Web 2.0″ at a CIO roundtable session in Chicago on May 12th. You can download the 14.2MB PDF version of the presentation:

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 […]

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, […]

To my middle-aged fuddy-duddy friends: today’s social networks are like yesterday’s cell-phones

If you’re over 40 years old, you probably remember at least some period of your adult life when there were no cell-phones. And unless you were an IT professional (e.g., a programmer, database architect, etc.), you also probably remember a period of several years where neither you nor anyone you knew had an e-mail address. […]

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 […]

Social Networks and me: a status report

I’m not an obsessed, full-time devotee of social networking (SN), but I was surprised when I began to realize how much the various SN services have permeated my life. I supposed that if I were a high-school or college student, I might devote most of my waking hours to interactions with both “real” friends and […]

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, […]

Dopplr

Back in May, my friend Stowe Boyd told me about an intriguing new Web service called Dopplr; since it was (and still is) operating as a “private beta” service, I relied on him to send me an invitation to join. And for the next several months, Stowe was the only other person on my Dopplr […]

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 […]