I’ve just been checking out Wikibooks, a project of the Wikimedia foundation that aims to create free books. Like Wikipedia, anybody can contribute to the books either by adding new material or editing existing books. Those books that are complete or voted ‘good enough’ are also available as PDF documents and even print editions
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A new report says Wikis are more important than social networks when it comes to business technology buyers. The report, from Knowledge Storm and Universal McCann, is available here — registration required. It’s also a cut-and-paste protected PDF, the devil’s own file format. But basically, it says that, of 5300 participants: 77% of these buyers Techmeme is full to bursting with posts announcing/decrying the announcement of something called Web 3.0. The kerfuffle follows an article in the New York Times yesterday, which is actually about semantic technologies — I gave a little overview in August and there’s more here. The ideas have been around since at least 1999, Photobucket totally dominates the Web 2.0 photo-sharing and storage area according to the Hitwise report I started talking about yesterday . For the purposes of this post, the distinction between Web 1.0 photo sites and Web 2.0 is a focus on their online presence and sharing on other sites and with other users, as The latest Hitwise Consumer Generated Media Report reveals that MySpace’s dominance over other social networks shows no signs of slowing down. MySpace has a market share of 81.92% among the social networks, with users spending over 30 minutes on the site in an average session. This is the second-longest session time in the survey, with Get ready for a new acronym (or is it a mnemonic?): SLATES. It’s used to describe the building blocks of Enterprise 2.0 applications. The expanded, expensive report based on Tim O’Reilly’s What Is Web 2.0? essay introduces some new ideas around the subject (free excerpt here). But what is SLATES?* According to Dion |             | |||
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