Posts under ‘web’

A lot has been said about the wisdom of crowds, and how the ‘crowds’ built Wikipedia. In fact, to a large extent this assumed ‘wisdom’ is the premise of everything that’s happening in the Web 2.0 space.
Josh Catone of ReadWriteWeb makes a good point of having some rules to get the best out of crowds [...]

Someone asked this question on LinkedIn and I was surprised to see responses like - “who has the time to blog” and “its and extra overhead” etc. Here are my two cents on the topic (that I posted as a reply there):
Completely echo Andrew’s thoughts. Just to add - knowledge workers need to ‘ask’ and [...]

It didn’t take me more than a week to get what I wanted (check my previous article on this). I am on Wordpress now, and that too on my own domain. It really is a 5 minute installation. The customization took some time, and that too only because I’m sort of fussy about the finer [...]

Bernard Lunn calls it the “Mainstream Web”. He believes that the Mainstream Web is all about revenue, fixing the one big weakness of Web 2.0! Read the full article here.
This seems to be an apt reply for an earlier post I made in this regard. Well that’s social networking for you - it seems to [...]

VerveEarth allows you to plot your content (blog, site) on an interactive map of the world. Down to the street. Check my plot here. A tool like this comes with several possibilities, the most promising perhaps that you can meet other bloggers in your neighbourhood!

Check out - Trendpedia, a blog search engine and trend tracking tool. Discovered this site here (a complete description of Trendpedia is available)

Stumbled across this documentary on Net Neutrality - “a provocative and worrying take on the future of the internet with some interesting historical precedents”. (quoted from this article by Dave Snowden)

Save the Internet Rock the Vote

As if adding on to my earlier posts on this topic, this article on ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone argues that Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 are terms with no specific definition, and it really is just THE web!

I’ve been sort of annoyed at the hype around Web 2.0. What is so different about Web 2.0? Was there a Web 1.0? Heck, what is the definition, or scope of Web 2.0?! Did collabaoration not exist before Web 2.0 (the term was coined around 2004)? Did JavaScript not exist before Web 2.0? Did CSS [...]

It’s heartening to see the internet hype coming a full circle - from the dotcom days (or the bust!) to Web 2.0. There is renewed interest and hype about internet startups. Check out http://www.startupdunia.com/ to get a feeler!
What differentiates the Web 2.0 era from the dot-com days is probably the more conscious congnizance of revenue [...]