Category Archives: web 2.0

The Predictable (And Tragic) Evolution of New Media

Some news today on the tragic suicide of a young man captured on Justin.tv — Justin.tv being a tad different than, say, YouTube, as its one of those video services which streams content live.  That is to say, he committed suicide on “live” internet-streaming video.
The loss of a young life is always regrettable.  I think [...]

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Has Omnidrive Deadpooled? (For Real?)

I am a fan of online storage services, to the extent that I do follow things.  Omnidrive is one of those services that I profiled briefly more than a year ago, and at the time I really liked it.  In fact, at the Web 2.0 Summit in 2006, Venturebeat annointed Omnidrive winner of the Launchpad [...]

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Digg Cashing Out? Yawn.

What’s that?  New rumours of Digg being sold?  Pardon my giant yawn.
Jeez, over the course of the year there’s been about 9-12 different times that I read Digg was going that direction.  Whoops — that’s probably only three — but it *felt* like a dozen times.  Yes, its going to make a good fit for [...]

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Web 2.0 Kitsch or Web 2.0 Learning Tool? You Decide.

I can’t decide if this is brilliant, or merely the sign of how far over the shark “Web2.0″ has gone.  What I’m talking about is a deck of cards, a la Iraq’s Most Wanted, except that these cards feature Web2.0 companies, such as Digg, Odeo, Facebook and Flickr.  The 52 card actually-usable-card-deck was created by [...]

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