Posts Tagged with ‘web-2.0’

This week has seen a great deal of nattering on about Generation Y: how the interact with the web, how they are going to solve all the world's problems with no coherent business model, and what they expect out of social networks.
To be honest, I'm old. Very old. I'm Generation X. And when someone suggested that Generation X was defined by the Web 1.0 bubble when it comes to tech, I see much of the same "can't happen to us" [...]

Most of the social geeks out there are more than aware of the recent Twitter issues that have been happening off and on for a week or so now. Slowdown, errors, and even complete downtime have plagued the popular update and communicating medium, and like all good tech nerds, many were frustrated by the downtime and dysfunction. Thankfully, the good group at Twitter responded to the complaints and downtime, and have apologized as well as explained the real problems that [...]

The other night, my husband asked me a question I had no answer for: when we've moved on to whatever Web 3.0 is going to be, what will be left of Web 2.0? There are carryovers from the 1.0 Bubble, but when you think about it, the Web itself is 1.0. And Tim Berners-Lee himself has argued that we can't delineate Web 2.0 since so much of the technology has existed since the beginning of the Web.
Everyone has tried to [...]

After talking with Angela LoSasso at Web 2.0 Expo, I started thinking about some of the "dinosaur" companies: enterprise and Web 1.0 companies that are trying to find their way in the Web 2.0 space. I had just seen a press release announcing the appointment of a "Chief Blogger" at Eastman Kodak Company. Like most born-and-bred Rochesterians, I've lived in the shadow of Kodak my whole life (literally: the house I grew up in was on the same street as [...]

I have been using Twitter for a while now, and it is quite a useful tool. I don't know that it is an indispensable utility that I depend on, but it does help generate short conversations and has many other helpful uses.
With any new communication tool that pops up on the web nowadays, there are sure to be spammers and others who exploit the good intentions of others, which is why today's story at TechCrunch concerning spam on Twitter [...]

Web 2.0 has developed its own ecosystem, with application builders able to build their apps using mash-ups, AIR clients, and new apps on the backs of popular 2.0 apps already in wide distribution. Virtually every day we see announcements of new applications based on Twitter and FriendFeed and Google Reader, as well as Facebook apps, MySpace apps, and Hi5 apps. The real question, however, is what will happen to these companies and this ecosystem if one of the foundation companies [...]

Up until now, having a movie night with friends or family meant that everybody had to get together at someone's house and gather in front of the television (or visiting a local movie theater). Now however, using it's patent-pending SimulStream technology, Lycos Cinema (when was the last time you heard anything from Lycos?!) introduces a web-based service that lets multiple users view the same movie or TV episode while socializing at the same time with [...]

Once upon a time, in a career far, far away, I worked in marketing communications for a Fortune 500 company. CRM software, such as it was then, consisted mainly of managing your business cards and taking some notes, so it’s an industry I’ve stayed interested in as it’s grown and evolved.
The host of the Blogtropol.us Lounge at Web 2.0 Expo was The Conversation Group, and I got to meet their Director, Integrated Media Campaigns, Denise Vardakas, who filled me on [...]

Pretty much everyone who uses the internet has visited (or at least heard of) eBay, which has long been the top online auction marketplace. There are now thousands of business-minded people around the globe whose livelihood now depends solely on eBay and for good reason. Buyers can find the most rare of items, and sellers can find a buyer for the most obscure merchandise. But, eBay has been struggling since the explosion of the web 2.0 era, and other marketplace's [...]