Ever since I changed my sharing pattern to use bit.ly more, I’ve been using blogger less. This was put to me rather poignantly the other day when a prospective customer said: “why did you stop blogging because, well, back in the day, you used to have the best blog in the industry.” Best blog? I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0'
Back in the Mark Logic CEO Blog Day
October 12th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Bit.ly · Blogging · Twitter · Web 2.0
The Madness of Mobs: Twitter and Swine Flu
April 28th, 2009 · No Comments
In talking about web 2.0, we often think about ideas like mass collaboration, a participatory web, the web as a communication platform, and generally speaking The Wisdom of Crowds in building and establishing knowledge. I’m a big believer in the power of functional (or wise) groups to make better decisions than even the most talented [...]
Tags: Madness of Mobs · Swine Flu · Twitter · Web 2.0 · Wisdom of Crowds
Mary Meeker Web 2.0 Summit Presentation
November 6th, 2008 · No Comments
While I was unable to attend this year’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco (due to our own Digital Publishing Summit in NYC), one of my most-viewed posts from last year was about Morgan Stanley financial analyst Mary Meeker’s statistics-loaded presentation. Here’s this year’s version of her speech. My favorite slide is #15, which does [...]
Tags: Web 2.0
Web 2.Over?
October 22nd, 2008 · 6 Comments
I heard this soundbite today (pronounced “web two dot over”) as Silicon Valley’s response to the crisis in the financial markets, declining consumer spending, and the imminent recession. In many ways, I think it’s true. Many of the previously-unconstrained-by-revenue web 2.0 startups are in for a reality check. I attended the now-famous Sequoia “Rest in [...]
Tags: Web 2.0 · Web 2.0ver · Web 2.Over
Startup Zeitgeist
August 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Seedcamp, a London-based, week-long camp for European entrepreneurs recently did an interesting exercise. They took the several hundred applications they received for their event and made tagclouds. Here’s what they found. What are you creating? How will you make money? What tools will you use? (I’d love to see XQuery in the toolset, but happy [...]
Tags: Tagcloud · Web 2.0 · XML · XQuery · content analytics · startups
