10 Free eBooks About Web 2.0

I expect you’re fed up of waiting for my book to appear. I know I am. In the meantime, stay up to speed and save money with ten free e-​​​​books about Web 2.0 and Social Media. In no particular order…

1) Social Media or, “How I learned to stop worrying and love com­mu­nic­a­tion” by Australian PRs Trevor

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links for 2006-​​10-​​30

Email with a journ­alist… — The Jason Calacanis Weblog “Blogging is already a business. Our company, Weblogs, Inc., is an eight figure a year business.” (tags: blogs business advert­ising Blogging) Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 3 The article covers: edu­ca­tional blogging, photo sharing, edu­ca­tional pod­casting, wikis, video

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The Other Side of Remote Working

One of the fre­quently touted ingredi­ents of Web 2.0 is the idea of the “web as platform”, and providing software as a service. In some respects, this isn’t a new thing at all. I got pitched the idea of using an ASP (applic­a­tion service provider) for the first time in 2000. Citrix was founded in 1989 —

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MySpace Doooomed. Allegedly.

The Washington Post has a story about young­sters leaving MySpace in droves that recently hit the front page of digg. And the WSJ agrees with a spookily similar story. Hang on. I recall reading another remark­ably similar story four months ago [digg link — the news­paper has moved the piece].

I think these stories

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Rules of Engagement

Some inter­esting dis­cus­sion over the last couple of days about the neces­sity for a new kind of metric for meas­uring the effect­ive­ness of blogs. Robert Scoble talks about the dif­fer­ence between getting page impres­sions (bad) and engage­ment (good):

There’s another stat out there called “engage­ment.” No one is meas­uring it that I know of.

What do

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Coffee with Julie Meyer

As I make my way down Cannon Street, I feel like death warmed up. I’ve had a bad cold for three or four days, and I’ve used the magical power of cigar­ettes to develop a sim­ul­tan­eous cough of room-​​​​shaking pro­por­tions. I’m off to see Julie Meyer at Ariadne Capital. Julie is perhaps best-​​​​known as the co-​​​​founder of Continue reading Coffee with Julie Meyer

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