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 […]

Twitter troops, twitter armies - but no twitter mobs: the essence of Twitter etiquette

… next thing I remember, I am walkin’ down the street
I’m feeling all right, I’m with my boys, I’m with my troops, yeah …
Paul Simon, “Late in the Evening“
Every time I think of my Twitter network, I can’t help recalling the phrase “with my troops, yeah” from the Paul Simon song, Late in the Evening […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 43 of my Web 2.0 presentation

Partly inspired by all of the ideas, comments, ad references that I’ve picked up at this week’s Web 2.0 Summit conference, I’ve made a number of updates to my Web 2.0 Google Docs presentation; you can view it by clicking here. But since a couple thousand of us attendees are sharing the same wifi network […]

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 made […]

Four Days of Twittering

I’ve been Twittering for four days now, which obviously doesn’t make me a long-term veteran — but I’ve got enough of a sense of the mechanism that I can make a few observations:

With or without me, Twittering hasn’t (yet) brought about world peace, cured cancer, stopped the increase in global warming, or achieved any other […]