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Niall Kennedy has a post on a copyright violation by Microsoft on his blog; essentially, he took a photograph at a public event, posted it on Flickr under a Creative Commons by-attribution non commercial license, and a Microsoft employee used it in his blog, hotlinking to the Flickr image. Niall felt that the usage violated [...]

Four Hundred Fifty Five million dollars. That’s the estimated investment made by venture capitalists in 79 Web 2.0 ventures, in the first three quarters of this year, based on a study by Dow Jones Venture One and Ernst & Young.
A related statistic – that Web 2.0 investments are 28% of an estimated $1.6 billion investment [...]

Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 came up with a thought provoking discussion on why content businesses don’t scale any more; together with his discussion on the Long Tail of Revenue, there’s some insights that any Web 2.0 venture needs to think of.
Last spring I wrote about the Long Tail of Revenue 2.0, observing that the [...]

What happens when Thomas Friedman (The World Is Flat) meets Tim O’Reilly (Web 2.0)? Paul McDougall chronicles his thoughts over at Informationweek
Late Thursday I took in a panel on global business that featured Thomas ‘The World Is Flat’ Friedman and Tim ‘Web 2.0′ O’Reilly. It was hard not to come away with the feeling that [...]

For most people in business, email is probably the most useful web related application; it???s replaced snail mail and fax to a significant extent, it provides a quick way to communicate with multiple people, and to send response quickly. Where typically you would spend days waiting for a reply through the postal system, you can [...]

Robert Scoble’s ScobleShow features an interview with Connectbeam CEO Puneet Gupta, and a podcast of a demo of Connectbeam’s offering. Check it out - this is a great example of how Web 2.0 can bring value to Enterprise.
I’d talked briefly in earlier posts about Connectbeam and business bookmarking and where Web 2.0 could make a [...]

One clear lesson from the dot-com era was about survival of the fittest; it didn’t matter how revolutionary the mutation, without the ability to survive, it became at best a footnote in history. Conversely, the ability to survive often brings unwanted baggage in the form of odd vestigial standards, as exemplified by the httpmail adopted [...]

A mini tempest in a teacup blowing up at meme-land, over socialism versus social networks, hype, snake oil and window-dressing versus the ‘solidity’ of standards and ‘truly distributed’ networks. Bill Thompson’s article does have some element of truth in respect to the temptation of appearance over architecture, as Nicholas Carr remarks; yet, in many ways, [...]

What’s at the heart of Web 2.0? This isn’t a holistic definition, but among the key factors
- An ability to tag data or information in multiple ways
- Ways to share the information without changing the core, enabling many people to act on it.
- Linking it up to other pieces of data; or presenting it in [...]