2020 Internet Vision

Pew Internet & American Life Project has released its second Future of the Internet survey, with experts and pundits broadly agreeing that by 2020:

A low-​​​​cost global network will be thriving and creating new oppor­tun­ities in a “flat­ten­ing” world. Humans will remain in charge of tech­no­logy, even as more activity is auto­mated and “smart agents”

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Lies, Damned Lies and Weblog Statistics

Sorry for another list, but I seem to have run out of semi-​​​​profound thoughts for this week about Web 2.0 and social media. Instead, the old standby of weird and inter­esting things I found from my site stat­istics this morning. I don’t have an enormous amount of faith in these programs. My host runs two, awstats and Webalizer,

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Flock’d up

I like Flock, the social web browser. The integ­ra­tion with blogs, photo-​​​​sharing and online book­marking sites is really well done. And the design looks fant­astic. Having a built-​​​​in RSS reader is a great bonus and miles ahead of Firefox’s Live Bookmarks or the weird and unin­tu­itive use of feeds in Thunderbird or Opera. So am

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Second business

Online world Second Life is to have its own business magazine, SL Business. A flurry of magazines have been launched around ebay to cater to those wishing to create their own business around the auction site. In a similar way, members of the Second Life com­munity are keen to join the likes of Anshe Chung,

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