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.

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…

I have a reading ritual which began on weekend mornings roughly 25 years ago, when my kids were little; now that they’re grown and gone, it has evolved into a daily ritual: I get up relatively early in the morning, tip-toe quietly to the front door to avoid waking anyone (which now consists of only my wife and my dog), and retrieve The New York Times waiting on the door-mat. I walk to the kitchen to get a glass of grapefruit juice, then back to the living room — where I stretch out comfortably on the sofa, and proceed to read certain portions of the paper. I always read the headlines on the front page, guided by the size of the headlines; and while some of the articles are sufficiently boring that I skip them altogether, I generally read whatever portions of those front-page articles are actually printed on the front page. Roughly half of the front-page articles are sufficiently interesting that I’ll turn to whatever inner-page contains the remainder of the article, and read them to completion. Then I turn to the last two pages of the first section, where I’ll scan the editorials and the op-ed columns to see which ones look sufficiently relevant and interesting to warrant a careful read. It’s worth noting, also, that my decision to read an op-ed column is somewhat dependent on the columnist’s identity — e.g., I’ll almost always read Tom Friedman’s op-ed pieces, even if the title doesn’t look particularly interesting. I’ll then look at the business section of the paper in the same fashion, and I may (or may not) glance at the front page of the sports section, the metro section, and various other sections of the paper. All of this consumes about 30 minutes, after which I get a cup of coffee and wander into my office (next to the living room), where I scan a pre-determined set of Web sites and blogs to round out my daily “review” of news and information that’s relevant to me.

None of this is necessarily good or bad, right or wrong; it’s just the way I’ve decided to read the news — with the emphasis here on read. My wife generally reads the entire paper, cover to cover, though not necessarily in one sitting; I simply don’t have the time, the attention span, or the interest to do so. I never read the obituary section, while my wife reads it carefully, every day; and she tells me that some of the best writing in the New York Times is in the sports section. Maybe so; maybe I just don’t appreciate good writing. In any case, her ritual for reading the paper is somewhat different than mine — and yours is probably different from hers and mine.

But this morning, the ritual changed: I fetched the paper, as usual, but didn’t even open it as I sat down on the sofa with my glass of juice. Instead, I turned on my Kindle machine, downloaded today’s copy of the Times, and read it on the machine. I don’t know whether this would have taken more time, or less time, than reading the information in the old-fashioned way, because I stopped several times to jot some notes about what I was doing. And having done it only once so far, I don’t really know whether I’m reading more information, or less information, or different information, on the Kindle than in the hard-copy version. This will all eventually become clear, after a couple of weeks of daily Kindle-reading … assuming that I do continue reading it on the Kindle machine. Meanwhile, though, here are my first impressions:

1. The physical experience of holding a small, lightweight 4-by-6 device is obviously different than holding a large, full-size section of printed newspaper; overall, I’d say the Kindle is preferable. I find printed newspapers to be somewhat awkward and clumsy to hold, to fold, and to flip from one page to the next; and since I only want to hold one section of the paper in my hands at a time, that means I have to find someplace else (e.g., the floor, the coffee table) to drop the other sections. And you’d be amazed how much of a nuisance it can be to simply find the business section, when it’s buried among several other irrelevant (to me, anyway) sections of the paper.
2. Of course, I could also have chosen to read the newspaper on my laptop computer, since I have a wireless connection to the Internet. But laptops are relatively large and heavy and awkward; and depending on the lighting in the room, the backlit screen may or may not be easily visible. Overall, Kindle does well in this area.
3. If I decide to subscribe to the New York Times (or any one of 7 other U.D. newspapers, plus The Irish Times, Le Monde, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine — but no British, Canadian, Australian, or Asian newspapers), then I can expect it will have been downloaded onto my Kindle by the time I get up in the morning. But I’m not yet ready to make that commitment, which means I have to order/download each day’s issue of the paper as a separate transaction. It’s a painless, Amazon-style one-click operation (billed directly to the credit card associated with my Amazon account); but it’s interesting that it actually takes six clicks to make it work: “Home,” “Menu,” “Shop in Kindle Store,” “Newspapers,” “New York TImes,” and “Today’s Edition.” Maybe there’s some what I can create a bookmark or shortcut to accomplish all of this in one click; if so, I haven’t figured it out yet.
4. Because Kindle displays everything in black and white, none of the newspaper photos are in color. Duh! Interestingly, it’s been only a few years since the New York Times began adding a color photo to the front page of each section of the paper, and I guess I’ve gotten used to it. The result is that the paper I’m reading on Kindle seems a little … well, dull.
5. More importantly, there is very little “implied prioritization” of the front-page articles, based on the size of the headline. Using the default font size on my Kindle, I can see headlines of three front-page articles, and three lines of introductory text for only the first two of those articles. If I push the “next page” button, I see one more quasi-high-priority headline/summary, and then the first three headlines of what Kindle describes as “other front page articles”; there are six more such headlines on the third page. All in all, I’m not sure I like this arrangement; it’s not that the task of selecting articles is impossible or even difficult — but it has definitely changed the detail and nuances of that selection process in the traditional print-version of the paper.
6. On the plus side, Kindle makes it very easy for me to see a list of the newspaper sections, and then go directly to whichever one I want to read. No more piles of unread sections of the paper all over the floor, no more wondering where they’ve managed to hide the business section in today’s issue.
7. But on the negative side, the display of op-ed columns doesn’t show the columnists’ name — all you see is the title of the op-ed piece. So I had to click through all of them to see that “Debating Iraq’s Transition” was written today by Tom Friedman, and that “She’s No Morgenthau” was written by Maureen Dowd.
8. Note that I hyperlinked the two columnists, and their respective columns, in the bullet-point above. I did that partly because I’m just a terrific guy (and loyal, thrifty, and brave, too), but also because I often find articles in newspapers and magazines for which I’d like to bookmark the URL of the Internet-based version of the document, so I can refer to it later on my laptop. Do you think that something like that would be easy in Kindle? Short answer: no. I can create a bookmark for the downloaded Kindle page, and I can save the entire page (which, to be precise, is a single “Kindle page,” not the “logical page” representing the entire article) in the Kindle “Clipping File.” Then, as a separate activity, I can connect the Kindle to my laptop/desktop PC and copy the Clipping File as a text file onto the PC. Better than nothing, I suppose, but not terribly useful if the ultimate objective is to get my hands on something that I can cut-and-paste (or import) into my PC Web browser. On the other hand, I can’t do any of this stuff with the print-version of the paper, so perhaps I should shut up and stop complaining.
9. Because you don’t have the usual process of “select some text” by dragging and clicking with a mouse, and because there’s no obvious cut-and-paste mechanism, there’s no easy way to select some text from an article and then easily look it up on Wikipedia or Google — which, of course, you can do easily on your laptop/desktop computer. Thus, when Maureen Dowd cited a pithy remark in her op-ed column from a Boston-based lawyer named Joan Di Cola, I was momentarily stymied when I wanted to find out more about Ms. Di Cola. It’s not impossible, just slightly tedious: you have to click on the “search” button at the bottom of the Kindle console, type the search phrase with the little chiclet-size keyboad (i.e., the entire phrase “Joan Di Cola”) and then wait for a couple seconds for Kindle to tell you that it found one reference in the New York Times issue you’re reading (Duh! I knew that!), it found no definitions in its built-in dictionary, and it would be happy to continue the search (using its wireless connection to the Interent) using Wikipedia, Google, or the Kindle/Amazon book store. Ms. Di Cola turns out to be unknown to Wikipedia, unpublished on Amazon (though, technically, Kindle only tells you about the books it knows about, not all 3 million Amazon titles), but well-known to Google.

Oh, yeah, one more thing: the obituary section is there, in all its glory, in the Kindle edition of the paper. As far as the New York Times is concerned, only one noteworthy person died today. And I still don’t care …

Meanwhile, I made some notes on a few other features and idiosyncrasies of the Kindle machine. But I’ll save those for another post. I decided to download today’s edition of the Wall Street Journal — another 75 cents down the drain! — so I think I’ll see if I can navigate that any more easily than the New York Times …

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 …

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 22.6-megabyte PDF file, which looks much prettier and has approximately 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.net; to access that, click here.

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

1. On page 1, I provided a link to the Google Docs version of this material, as well as a link to the Slideshare.net version.
2. On page 56, I added a new bullet point to the discussion of Ajax architectural guidelines, based on an observation by Mario Finetti, one of the attendees at my Web 2.0 seminar last week in Rome: Mario pointed out that implementing a Web application in Ajax often requires a large cultural adjustment by many programmers, who were previously advised to avoid client-side processing in a Web-based app, and to do as much processing as possible on the server. Ajax-based apps, by contrast, involve a large amount of Javascript processing in the user’s client browser.
3. On page 19, I added a sub-bullet point about Twitter, from a Nov 4, 2007 New York Times article entitled “The Global Sympathetic Audience,” in which Twitter-based interactions were characterized as “ambient intimacy.”
4. On page 85, I added a reference to Luis Suarez’s Oct 29, 2007 article on “Ten Reasons CEOs Should Blog.”
5. Also on page 85, I added a reference to a June 2006 Scobleizer blog, confirming the bullet point indicating the roughly 3,000 Microsofties blog.
6. Also on page 85, I added a link to a blog article entitled “Web 2.0 Gets Business Chops,” indicating that more than 50% of respondents to a recent IT management survey felt that Web 2.0 is an overhyped buzzword. And I added a new page (page 87) that displays the results of that survey as a bar chart.
7. On (new) page 115, I added a reference to an article entitled “Wikipedia Becomes a Class Assignment,” as part of a list of topics about the impact of Web 2.0 on education.
8. On (new) page 113, I provided a link to the Slideshare.net version of “Shift Happens,” in addition to the existing link to the YouTube video version.
9. Also on (new) page 113, I added a link to a November 2, 2007 New York Times article entitled “Devices Enforce Silence of Cellphones, Illegally” as a sub-bullet to an existing bullet item entitled “revenge by gadget“. And I added a second sub-bullet with a link to PhoneJammer, as an example of such a “revenge” device; I don’t have one (yet), but I think it’s a terrific idea!
10. Finally, on page 65, I added several links and sub-bullet points related to the recent announcement of the OpenSocial API for social networks. In addition a “generic” news announcement from Yahoo News, I also included: a link to Google’s announcement of the consortium effort; Nicholas Carr’s comments on OpenSocial; Dan Dodge’s blog posting on “50 million Facebook users don’t care about OpenSocial“; a perspective from Nicole Ferraro (editor at large, at Internet Evolution); John Battelle’s comments on MySpace joining in with Google; an O’Reilly commentary; Stowe Boyd’s comments and perspective; and a summary/opinion about OpenSocial from Marc Andreesen (co-founder of Netscape, and CEO of Ning). If that’s enough to keep you busy for a while, then you’ll have to start doing your own damn research!

That’s it for now; I actually hope things will slow down for a little while, so I can catch up with the rest of my life. Meanwhile, though, happy reading…