Tim O'Reilly has just posted what will no doubt become a seminal article on the definition of Web 2.0. If you're still struggling to understand all this Web 2.0 stuff (and who isn't?) this should clear things right up. Here are the key aspects of Web...
Jason over at the 37Signals blog has posted on the Top 10 Things That Aren't Web 2.0, among them Ajax and RSS: "There’s a lot of smart people asking ‘What is Web 2.0?’. I’ll tell you what it isn’t. 1. Ajax, RSS, etc 2. Feature lists 3. VC funding 4. ...
Writeboard is here! This new web-app from 37Signals is a collaborative document editor and word processor. I'm a big fan of Writely, so I thought I'd check out Writeboard and see how it stacks up. Some of my observations: *The interface on Writely is...
I've got hundreds of ideas for innovative web applications right now, all of them with strong business models. But with the web moving on so fast, I need to get things rolling pretty darned quick! Here's the meaty bit: I'm looking for Ruby on Rails d...
Wow. A few days ago, the blogosphere was abuzz with news that a service called 30gigs was offering 30GB of online email storage. Now Om Malik has discovered something even more remarkable: MailNation is offering one terabyte of email storage for free...
The Web 2.0 bubble is surely fit to burst. Alex Barnett has spotted a ridiculous number of acquisitions this week, while Richard McManus and TechCrunch report that Weblogs Inc has been bought by AOL for $20-35 million! Don't get me wrong, I love all ...
That's right: my feedreader is yet again full to bursting with a plethora of remarkable Web 2.0 services. Luckily, Techcrunch has done a good job of herding up the best of the best at the Web 2.0 Conference - Part One and Part Two. Many of these serv...
Web 2.0, AJAX, web apps, you know the buzzwords. But what's it all about? Personally, I think all these technologies are part of a bigger movement towards thin clients and mass online storage, with all our apps running on the network. I've been calli...
Jason from the excellent Web 2.0 startup 37signals (creators of Backpack, Basecamp, Ta-Da List and now Writeboard), gave an informal talk at the Web 2.0 Conference on the subject of Less. His advice to Web 2.0 companies: Less money. Traditionally you...
There's a great post over at O'Reilly Radar about the enormous popularity of Writely. The key point: Web 2.0 is about user experience. Companies which understand the user experience will succeed in the long-term. Look at successful companies like Fli...
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Dare Obasanjo has put up a pretty darned interesting post on his thinking about the Web 2.0 Conference. Here's the bit that stood out for me: Just like in the dotbomb days of 1999/2000, most "web 2.0" companies don't have a business model besides get...
Chris Pirillo and his Lockergnome buddies have launched a new metasearch engine which is getting some buzz in the blogosphere. Gade.be has some pretty unique features, including the ability to conduct and filter searches by editing the domain name. T...
So we've seen plenty of instant searches come out recently, but Inquisitor Instant Search has one thing that really stands out - just feast your eyes on that interface! Who knew that ajax could be so beautiful? And yes, I had to squish that image to ...
Richard MacManus has posted about web 2.0 business models and the sudden onslaught on VC funding we've seen in the last few weeks and months. He writes: I'm sensing a backlash about the rising VC interest in Web 2.0. Mike Rundle takes aim at Flock in...
Alexei White doesn't think so. In this in-depth post, he takes a look at XUL, XAML, SVG, Flash, Applets and Ajax and concludes that Ajax is the clear winner. I tend to agree - looking beyond all the current hype (and the fact that "ajax" isn't really...
It looks like The Robot Co-op is on a roll. Their popular goal-sharing app 43things has spawned an off-shoot in 43places and another in 43people. Hmm...43things, 43places, 43people - there's a pattern there! It looks like the team is picking a social...
Ken Yarmosh over at Technosight is holding a second blogoposium, this time on Lessons Learned from Web 1.0. With all the talk of a bubble on the way, it'll be interesting to see what this endeavor turns up... In my second blogoposium, I propose that ...
I recently wrote about the alternatives to Ajax, so it was interesting to read this post by Alex Bosworth on Flash and its role in web services. He makes some interesting points on the advantages of Flash in web apps: I'm not talking about the interf...
This post by Anil Dash on the Web 2.0 Conference has attracted a lot of attention. Why? Largely because it puts into words something a lot of us have been thinking: Web 2.0 is made of white people. And not just white people, but white men. As Anil po...
I want to know what the Google of social networks would look like. Doug Sherrets thinks that social networks are at the same place as search engines in 1998 - hundreds of contenders, but nothing compelling or unique. I tend to agree. MySpace is fract...
What would happen if you could run OSX from within your browser? How about this?...
The blogosphere is really losing its patience with splogs. There was a time when they were only mildly irritating, but spam blogs (largely those on blogger/blogspot) have now screwed up the signal vs noise ratio and made everyone's life more difficul...
Jeff Clavier has put up an insightful post over at ZDNet in which he claims that getting bought isn't such a bad idea. Perhaps the most important point, however, is that Web 2.0 companies don't get ahead by having superior technology. Instead, they h...
Richard McManus quotes Don Dodge on the Web 1.0 companies that got well and truly whooped by the giants of Web 2.0: * AltaVista -> Google * Napster -> iTunes * VisiCalc -> Lotus 123 -> Excel * Word Perfect -> Word * Netscape -> Internet Explorer * Ap...
Another week, another plethora of wonderous Web 2.0 offerings served up automagically in your fantabulous feedreader. What more could you ask for? Savvy readers will notice that Wink, Flock and a few more wonderful Web 2.0 offerings haven't appeared ...
I learnt yesterday that my blog header isn't showing up right in Safari. That makes me sad. But you can help rectify this sorry state of affairs! If you have any idea what's causing this problem (my lousy css, my obvious lack of design skills...) the...
Huihong Luo, the founder of Codase, just emailed me to tell me a bit more about his inspired source code search engine. Obviously I'm way too pompous to get my hands dirty with any actual coding, so I'll leave Huihong to explain its merits: "As you w...
Just a quick note to say that Anil Dash has another take on the "built to flip" model I mentioned earlier, along with some excellent graphs. Check it out!...
Inspired by ProgrammableWeb's Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix, Google Blogoscoped has gone one better and created a totally interactive Technology Mashup Matrix. Very, very cool. From the Google Blogoscoped Blog: "This blog’s new Technology Mashup Matrix helps...
