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:

We Think

Here’s an intriguing and provocative view of what “Web 2.0″ is all about…

The Awesomeness of Twitter

It occurred to me, sometime this afternoon, that it would be really cool if I could show a live, real-time display of incoming Twitter messages during some presentations that I’m going to be giving about Web 2.0 technologies in Moscow and Rome this spring. I suspect that some of this would be so new, for […]

A United Nations seat for MySpace?

My old-fashioned, dead-tree version of the February 2008 issue IEEE Computer arrived this afternoon and I glanced at the cover to see what it was all about. The theme of the issue is “The Pervasive Web,” and I noticed that one of the highlighted articles was “Social Networking“, by Alfred C. Weaver and Benjamin B. […]

Twitter vs. Dopplr: different networks, different purposes

I noticed a curious statistic today: my Twitter network is almost three times larger than my Dopplr network. Inquiring minds want to know: how could that be?
Let’s ignore a couple of perfectly reasonable, but uninteresting, possible explanations. Maybe the “sample size” of my networks is so small that any difference between the two is statistically […]

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 […]

Kina Grannis’ “Gotta Digg”

This has nothing to do with Christmas, or any other serious topic. But I was alerted to its existence by a fellow Twitterer, and it brought a smile to my face. If things are getting a little too serious in your world, pause for a moment and listen to Kina Grannis tell you all about […]

More on fine-tuning my email

A couple days ago, I wrote about implementing some techniques for reducing e-mail distractions and interruptions, based on suggestions that I had found in Tim Ferriss‘ book, The 4-hour Workweek. I’m pleased to report that — at least so far — the techniques work. Significantly, none of the people who interact with me by email […]

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. […]