Web 2.0 definitely for idiots
In response to my Web 2.0 for Idiots PowerPoint slide, commentarian nealsid writes: "How about the part where 'you help make it' but 'they make the money?'"
Web 2.0 for Idiots
A reader emails in response to our Web 2.0 to English series, "I fail to see the problem with Tim O'Reilly's primer. Anyone who's not an idiot needs no further explanation." As a Reader's Digest contributor, here's the condensed version of your email: Fail. For the rest of us idiots, I've whipped up a chart.
OpenSpeak translated is "gimme"
Loveable crankster Dave Winer unwraps the etymology of Google's OpenSocial platform.
Web 2.0 = Web 1.0 + more girls
Roommates, MySpace TV's online serial that launches Monday, is like JenniCam without the tedious waiting around.
45 seconds into Episode 1: "This is my big, beautiful bed." Bounce bounce bounce as shot switches to black-and-white spy cam aimed at bed.
65 seconds: "Oh my gosh! You guys! I'm changing!"
You get the…
The "semantic graph" reads Wikipedia
WEB 2.0 SUMMIT — Twine, Powerset, and Freebase are all doing dense demonstrations about the "semantic Web" — basically, improved search. I'd swear I've heard all three startups say that their systems analyze Wikipedia to understand connections between terms, a phenomenon one calls the "semantic graph." The short…
Social networking for dummies
WEB 2.0 SUMMIT — Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon, the nerdy duo working on programming standards for opening up social networks, are presenting a thoroughly less nerdy version of their usual presentation. I chatted with Fitzpatrick, now an engineer at Google, who said he realized he needed to dumb it down for…
How soon can I Google my date's DNA?
J. Craig Venter is the scientist whose startup beat the government-funded Human Genome Project to mapping a single person's entire DNA. Whose DNA? Duh, Venter's! On the last morning of the Web 2.0 Summit, Venter brought the audience up to date on the faster-than-Moore's-Law advances in reading and writing genes.
Bulldog-cute entrepreneur Jason Calacanis dogs the Web 2.0 Summit's panel of search-engine optimization experts: "People are coming up to ask questions and the guy keeps saying, 'Well you have to do social work on Digg and Reddit, but it's complicated and we need to talk about it.' During the panel he said, 'It's…
Can I make money doing online video?
Raw numbers from today's Web 2.0 Summit: Federated Media, which sells ads for top video shows Ask a Ninja and Diggnation, claims to pull checks ranging from $10,000 to a cool million from advertisers. But if you're a unknown starting out, don't expect more than two to four dollars for every thousand of your viewers,…
Why Facebook is bad for the Internet
Harvard and Oxford prof Jonathan Zittrain's Web 2.0 Summit workshop this morning, "Web Two Point No — And You Thought Microsoft Was Bad," hits on something few people think about: All the social-network information and messages flying around Facebook, MySpace and AIM are stored and retrieved through proprietary…
