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 […]