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March 29, 2006
Web 2.0
MSNBC has a new article on the meaning and importance of Web 2.0 here. According to the article,
"In the broadest sense, the Web 2.0 moniker captures the renewed exuberance (perhaps irrational) in high-tech circles. There are so many start-ups, in fact, that inventive observers of the newly crowded business scene have taken to mashing all their logos together in one colorful and jumbled image, then posting their work to Flickr for others to appreciate."
Here's one example from Flickr:
source: http://flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/101793493.
The MSNBC article has short, snappy descriptions of a few of these companies: Digg (users, as editors, vote to promote the importance of news); Plum (a convenient way to combine all of the files and resources you have about a topic (good for research?)): Sharpcast (synchronize all of your electronic gadgets); Prosper (lenders compete for consumer loans up to $25,000); Mercora (you be the DJ -- create your own show and send it to up to five radio stations, worldwide); and others.
I keep thinking about Harry Dent (search this site for Dent) and his two waves of technology. Although, this movement seems like an early Dent-1 wave and not a mature Dent-2 wave. We'll see...
Posted by DavidK at March 29, 2006 06:17 AM | Permalink