Endless Conversation: The Unfolding Saga of Blogs, Twitter, Friendfeed, and Social Sites

October 25th, 2008 by admin

It wasn’t long ago that to be a credible participant in social media one only had to have a decent blog and keep it updated fairly regularly.  The rise of social media was an astonishing and novel enough development that most people still don’t blog today, despite the enormous influence that blogging and other forms [...]

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Web 2.0 Continues As Most Used New Internet Term

October 25th, 2008 by admin

While it’s no longer quite so fashionable to label your Internet startup a “Web 2.0″ company these days, the popularity of the term remains extraordinarily high and is presently used today both far and wide in traditional media and social media.  The Google Trends graph in the figure to the right tells the overall story; [...]

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Building Modern Web Apps? Better Have A Deep Competency in Web 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, Social Apps, and Much More

October 25th, 2008 by admin

The Web has an interesting property that those building Web applications and online businesses usually encounter soon after they first launch: It has its own unique and unforgiving rules for success and failure.  Appreciating them requires a certain level of understanding of the intrinsic nature of the Web and how it works.  Actually leveraging those [...]

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