I never really hit it off with the Web 2.0 moniker. To me, it was and still is a marketing gimmick that doesn’t reflect the fullness of the second breath the web has taken recently. Version two implies the web has stepped forward. To me, that’s to neglect the fact that the web has not […]
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“A Dow Jones research subsidiary just published a report on Web 2.0 venture capital investing, and it contains a few surprising finds. Out of $13 billion in VC investments in the first half of 2006, only $262 million went to Web 2.0 companies.Before going any further, let me clarify what the report counts as a […]
For those that know me well, they know that I like to follow trends. I love to explore patterns, especially those of a technological slant, and even more especially if there’s a social connection, which there inevitably is. So futurology is my thing. And exploring socio-technological trends is where I’m to be found most happy […]
At last! Some sense & reason seems to have been brought to all of the nonsense, obfuscation and misinformation around Web 2.0, and not before time, either: “Tim Berners-Lee, the individual credited with inventing the web and giving so many of us jobs, has become the most prominent individual so-far to point out that the […]