Web 2.0

You heard right, Google Apps is finally out of beta. On the flip side however, there appears to be some differences in landing pages.  Let’s look at each page individually. for a time, Google.com was opening up to one landing page while Google.com was providing a completely different one. And this is where the controversy started.
Apparently one [...]

Have you ever played a game of telephone as a child? Perhaps these days they might called it SMS/text Messaging? Either way, the idea is that you whisper what you were told to the person sitting next to you. This continues until it makes its way full circle back to the person who first started [...]

Despite what some people might have you believe, the DiggBar is a mixed bag at best. For those people who are looking for a Stumbleupon effect, it is seen as a way of enjoying this same kind of stumbling benefit without adding a physical toolbar. On the flip-side however, I never asked for it yet [...]

Despite overcoming one of the worst UI changes since MySpace, having their butts handed to them by Twitter with regard to making the social Web useful vs. cool, Facebook is embracing their 200 million people who clearly have entirely too much time on their hands.
This is not to say that everyone with a Facebook page [...]

Honestly never even considered that the US Library of Congress would soon join the  rest of us in the digital era, using YouTube to share media content. But as you can clearly see here, this is exactly what is happening. YouTube content from the LOC is here!

Not too long back, trying to do something as time consuming Hadoop on a smaller scale bordered on impossible, to at the very least, not worthwhile for many smaller research firms. Now that Amazon has released Elastic MapReduce for the masses, it is believed that this new service is going to do wonders for empowering [...]

Web 2.0 - seems like a weird name for the next generation of web design. Yet despite this title being rather silly on a multitude of levels, here we are. The idea behind changing the name of Web 2.0 is much like the desire to be done with the term “Podcasting”. Neither term does very [...]

Normally I am not someone who gets too excited about the idea of yet another NetMeeting-like clone, but based on what I have seen, Meeting24.tv is not like anything I have seen before in this space. Designed for those who find Skpye and other meeting enabled applications, Meeting24.tv is pretty sure that it can fit the [...]

With Web 2.0-style design and RIA (rich Internet applications) becoming prevalent on web sites, is there any point in creating a Web site if it doesn’t have interactivity features or fancy back-end programming? Of course! There are loads of reasons to have a web site and they don’t all require programming beyond basic JavaScript or [...]

Want to add some of those really neat Web 2.0 effects to your own Web site or project and you do not know where to start? Well one place that I would point you towards would be SimpleJS. Why? Well, it is pretty darned simple, for one thing. It might not be as powerful as [...]

It seems like almost every time I turn around there is a new way of using JavaScript to make things look better. Now I know a lot of folks block it, due to security reasons - but that is another post for another day. When used for the power of good, JavaScript can be a [...]

PrismaStar Software has announced the launch of a Web 2.0 relationship advice community named YouMe.Us and is giving away free iPods through March 31st, 2007 to reward the most active beta users. The goal of the interactive site is to provide users with an easy way to give and receive relationship advice while significantly improving [...]

Now one thing that people ask me for a lot when it comes to Web development issues is a good place to create a free poll or script. Till I found AskItOnline, I had to point people to these cheesy, ad-filled nightmares. Sure, you could install a script yourself as well, but that [...]

Steve Borsch of Marketing Directions, Inc. writes:
The reaction to our free, high level overview report (which we published on the Web the night before the Web 2.0 Summit here) has been surprising, delightful, and encouraging. It seems that there are a lot of people out there who “get” what’s happening but have bosses, investors, or [...]

Umm, tell me this is not a company who is trying to patent the concept of Web 2.0? How does one patent a fad? Maybe if I ‘want it’ badly enough?

Ben Hunt casts an eye to the future of a more connected Web and how we will experience it through new social applications.
This vision features insights into new search engines, an online marketplace, and solutions for phishing and spam. Ben also predicts that Yahoo! will be the dominant online brand for the next five [...]