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What Tim O'Reilly Gets Wrong About the Cloud
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog —
... or raw computing, services offered by an Amazon Web Services and less about particular web apps. Let's stop here, and take a look at the big kahuna on the Net, Google, which O'Reilly lists as the first example of a business that has grown to dominance thanks to the network effect. Is the network effect really the main engine fueling Google's dominance of the search market? I would argue that it certainly is not. And in fact, if you look back at that 2005 O'Reilly article, What Is Web 2.0? , you'll find that O'Reilly makes a very different point about Google's success. Here's ...
Visualization of Interests at Web 2.0 Summit
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. —
... So, in all, it looks like many of the themes outlined in the orginal What is Web 2.0 article are still alive and well, but are now reflecting the content types, business models, and interests of a maturing online media universe. Should be a fascinating few days! ...
Web 2.0 and "peak waste"
The Open Road —
... ." I agree, but I'm slightly surprised to see Tim writing off the wasteful technology industry, an industry that he has in part encouraged over the past few years with a heavy emphasis on Web 2.0 and all the superficial "value" that it has created. I'm not suggesting that Tim has explicitly encouraged such waste, but rather that his ideas have sparked an avalanche of rubbish business models and technology and, most importantly, have done little to actually foster the individual's role in creating value. Tim's emphasis has been on the social web, encouraging lightweight ...
WTF? Origins of Five Popular Web 2.0 Terms
ReadWriteWeb —
... We did a little hunting around and got to what's apparently the truth. More than 3 years ago Tim wrote an article titled What is Web 2.0: ...
Web 2.0, Revenue Models and Profitability: A Web 1.0 Comparison
CenterNetworks —
... entrepreneurs who were able to navigate it successfully, the market's immaturity posed a lot of challenges.
That market is much easier to navigate today and Web 2.0 has been the beneficiary of what I like to call "The AdSense Economy." Thanks to AdSense, you can build an Internet product, launch it and "monetize" immediately by slapping up some ads courtesy of the friendly folks at Google.
In his article, "What is Web 2.0?", Tim O'Reilly lists AdSense as Web 2.0's equivalent to Doubleclick.
And for good reason. AdSense ...
Data Ownership Might Just Be in Your Genes
Internet Evolution: —
... , and I got to see Web 2.0 in action like never before. In less than a weeks time my database would grow to 355 names with more than 480 source references! It was amazing to see so many Web 2.0 principles in action! To get started, I entered in some of my ancestors' names at Ancestry.com and got some more results. At first, these results looked to be due to the addition of new sources and the addition of new indexes. Then I saw a link to somebodys family tree. Following this link, I found that a distant relative of my wife had built a family tree, and one branch of that ...
Big, Hairy Audacious Work
Forbes.com: Technology News —
... critical for me in my role leading the consulting arm of O'Reilly. Consultants are the honeybees of the business ecology. We spread the good pollen around in the form of insight, methodology and best practices. So the question for consultants is this: Am I helping a company with ethics and an impact on the world which I support? Underlying the power of Web 2.0 is the idea that every contribution made on the Internet--from an action to a link to a blog or any other commentary-- adds value and significance to the network. Every choice and action counts. This dynamic is true, ...
Will Online Volunteers Transform Our Economic Recovery?
Advertising Age - Homepage —
... at least once a month grew from 48% in 2007 to 69% in 2008, and the growth shows no signs of stopping. This is already transforming the world. As Tim O'Reilly has pointed out , Web 2.0 transforms. Classifieds become Monster.com, which gets undermined by Craigslist. Britannica fades in favor of Encarta, which gets pulverized by Wikipedia. Photo film becomes Snapfish, which is swallowed by Flickr. In each case the end state is free, people-generated and revenue-challenged. A pessimist sees value erosion. But the value's not gone, it's just different. The consumer/creators ...
Terminology Matters: Why 'Social Media' Sucks
Advertising Age - Homepage —
... ," if you wish.) This would include huge sites like MySpace, communities, YouTube, the blogosphere and so on. (You could call the whole thing " Web 2.0 ," but people often see this as referring to a set of technologies -- not the best way for advertisers to focus -- and doesn't get directly at the people-to-people aspects.) If you want to build an environment where consumers or other customers connect with you and each other, call it a "social application." This could include a community, a user-generated content site, or even adding ratings and reviews to your site. By ...
Now That It’s The One Millionth Word, “Web 2.0″ Can Be Retired To The Dictionary
TechCrunch —
... Someone should tell the folks at Language Monitor that Web 2.0 is already here and has been in our browsers for the past few years. Even though it is an quasi-official word now, everybody still has trouble defining it. Here is O’Reilly’s original dissertation on the subject. And his so-called ...
