Archive for March, 2007

I have had the great pleasure to visit some of the most innovative web sites, test the most sought after Beta releases and talk with a few of the most influential personalities of Web 2.0. I feel fortunate sincerely. Then there is always the other side of the coin, or the one we often do [...]

If you’ve been a staunch loyalist to the 37signals gang, you probably tossed my piece about GoPlan – a similar product to Basecamp written up and released by a firm called WeBreakStuff - aside as poppycock, rubbish, nonsense. Not that it was any of those things, but just to keep true to your favorite Ruby-based suite [...]

Apple has shipped their first AppleTV units to stores according to their web site. The wireless set-top-box that can broadcast tunes, movies, trailers, podcasts and photos from your PC to your widescreen TV is winging its way to stores now. Apple seems determined to lead the way in producing and shipping hardware that can bring Web 2.0 [...]

The AFP is reporting that Malaysian Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin has told Malaysian newspapers not to use blogs for quotes or any other source of information in their reporting. According to Zainuddin, the papers should "not quote them because you are disgracing yourself as you are the authority. Do not give credit to such anarchist websites." [...]

Web 2.0 is for Boomers too! Statistically speaking Boomer use of new media and entertainment is very close to Generation X's on the Internet, cellular and PDA use, gaming and technology spending trends like purchases of HDTV's. Boomers also seem to be more willing to spend money on technology than any of the other age [...]

If you are anything like me, you are a member of numerous community sites, have more than one blog, and have a folder in your Gmail account assigned to hold all your site registration information. At least once a week, you forget which password and userid goes with which site, and you are forced to click [...]

Is Consolidation and Collaboration the Next Phase of Web 2.0?  Web 2.0 may just have a case of, for lack of a better term, constipation. Over the last several weeks I have noticed a decrease in real innovation like we saw at the beginning of the year. There is news out there, but for the most [...]

We don’t know if ‘WeBreakStuff’ is a good label for a web design and programming house. What we can tell you is that at least one of the items to emerge from the company’s workshop is some quality work, inside and out. It’s called GoPlan, and it is an application that helps teams collaborate on [...]

The Web 2.0 community Multiply.com just passed 4 million registered users recently, and the digital content sharing site/network claims that their usage increased over 500% in the last year. The site claims over 13 million page views per month since the beginning of 2007, much of this is attributed to "relationship relevancy". Multiply relies on [...]