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What follows was written for an offline magazine I work for called ICT for Education. It will be very much too basic for anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis (off you go). However, it may be useful for someone who stumbles along here looking for basic Web 2.0 applications they can get for free. The Internet The redesign of the Danish version of IDG’s ComputerWorld website has more than a passing resemblance to a blog. Here’s the US site: And here’s the new Danish version: Opening the WoM Communications conference, Steve Barton of Keevil Barton Kershaw [now defunct] talked about the reasons word of mouth matters more than ever. He cited research that states we receive over 3000 messages a day about products and services (source unknown, but I can believe it. Here is some info). We’re not able to Fred Wilson has published Comscore data on traffic to Pandora vs Last.fm. The results are very interesting. I had assumed that the two would be pretty much level-pegging. They both do very much the same thing, after all: provide a streaming radio station of new music based on your established tastes. The London-based Last.fm Chris Riley has come up with a great idea for tracking exactly how in touch the BBC website is with its readers. His BBC Touch site compares the top ten headlines on the BBC News front page against their popularity — the news that was actually read. This brief sample shows that we’re a bit I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Techmeme. It’s very useful for days when you haven’t got time to read through your RSS subscriptions (viz. most days) and just want a snapshot of what the techies in the blogosphere are talking about. On the other hand, it tends to focus very heavily on the supposed |             | |||
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