What does Web 2.0 look like?

One thing you have to love about ZDNet blogger Dion Hinchcliffe are his wacky infographics.

Here’s Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 in a pretty scary nutshell:

Here’s what it all means. (I’ll comment on this when I have time to do it justice).

And here’s his flickr set of similar pics to spice up

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Web 2.0 Bigger than News

Not really. Though if you stretch the stats enough you can make it seem that way.

From Mediapost’s Online Media Daily:

Web 2.0 sites make up the fastest-​​​​growing category on the Web — doubling their traffic over the last year, according to data presented Monday by Nielsen/​​/​​NetRatings. Web 2.0 sites, defined loosely as those allowing

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Vox Populi?

Nice inter­view on Techcrunch about Vox, the new social network/​​blog platform from SixApart. I have to confess that I didn’t really see the point of Vox when it first appeared, given the exist­ence of all the other social networks out there. SixApart’s Andrew Anker explains:

More import­antly to Vox, we believe there is very

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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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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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Online Brits Still 1.0

A new survey from Nielsen NetRatings entitled ‘The 21st Century Digital Consumer’ shows that most British people are nothing of the sort. The majority of those polled have ‘never heard of’ a slew of new(ish) internet and home enter­tain­ment tech­no­lo­gies. And this wasn’t a poll of the general pop­u­la­tion, but of internet users.

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