Category: Web2.0

Wikinomics – new book. How mass collaboration changes everything. “After the dot com boom many traditional companies breathed a sign of relief. Big mistake.” After the bubble comes the long term deployment and the long term change. Web 1.0 was about html. Web 2.0 is about integration and the web is a computational platform. Web…

Failed high school got a diploma because the army wanted him to go to Vietnam. Be careful who you listen to. They started their filing to go public then pulled it a week later. It costs 3 million dollars. Parsons called this the “Tuition for the education of Bob.” People love the convenience and speed…

I didn’t get much out of this chat from AOL other than a new acronym – UGC – user generated content. The big buzz at this conference seems to be around that very thing – finding ways to get your users to generate content. Build the right tools and they will come and do stuff.

This morning I ate breakfast with Shawna O’Reilly from Mayo Clinic Ventures and the product manager of Web Sphere. This conference is a lot of fun. Jeff Bezos is up now. Here are some Amazon stats: 61 million accounts, 10 billion in sales, seven countries, 1.1 million active seller accounts, 10 million square feet in…

Korean social site. Combination of popular internet activities – blogs, photo, video sharing. Here are some statistics: 20 million subscribers 40% of population 96% of 20-29 year olds use regularly 20 billion page views per month They are coming to the Unites States. It will be interesting to see if Cyworld is successful. Their design…

I hear that at past Web 2.0 conferences dinner on the second night was left to the attendees. This year AOL provided dinner and entertainment in the form of Lou Reed. I like music but I must admit that I had no idea who this guy was until I looked him up and found that…

Yesterday Vox.com announced they are open for busines. This is an interesting company to me because it is similar to ozmorz. If you listen to thier story and then to ours they sound like the same thing. A closer examination makes me think that we are still different. However, the fact that John Battelle called…

Helped track down the MIT teams in Las Vegas. Corporate amnesia. Ie marketing sends credit card offer to a guy in jail who just defrauded the company. Companies have multiple database systems that need to coordinate. Data and queries are the same thing. Queries persist and you ask every smart question (query) all the time….

Arranged the deal and bought Myspace. Youtube is their biggest strategic partner. On the Internet may of your biggest competitors are also your partners. Google will power search on the news corp sites. They get to sell advertising, and news corp gets 900 million. Myspace cost 580 million. Not a bad deal. However, he also…

Robert Pepper – Net neutrality is a dichotomous false choice – tyranny vs chaos. It is not necessary to create a regulation regime, but we need a to deal with violations on a case by case basis. For example, a small phone company was blocking the ports needed by Vonage. FCC told them to stop….