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Social Graph & Beyond: Tim Berners-Lee’s Graph is The Next Level

The evolution of the web continues and here’s a great take on what’s coming and how it will change the way we access and consume information.     via Read/WriteWeb by Richard MacManus on 11/22/07 Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, today published a blog post about what he terms the Graph, which [...]

Bubble 2.0 – The Video….

Here’s one to ponder…… Hat tip to Fake Steve Jobs for this one.

Here’s a new take on a well known saying I like….

Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you’re a consultant. Scott Adams, Dogbert; Dilbert cartoons US cartoonist (1957 – ) Blogged with Flock Tags: consulting

On Web 3.0

is a comment on Read/Write Web about the discussion that has sprouted up around the version game on the web and the often misunderstood meaning of terms like 1.0 /  2.0 and now 3.0 I tend to agree with what is said, especially with the explanation by Nova Spivack. I’ve said this before, numbers don’t [...]

Make me earn it!

This post has nothing to do with my usual blog theme, but I thought it well worth quoting from a recent Wall Street Journal article, via the Marketing Ladder newsletter. It’s about a professor at my daughter’s alma mater:     Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor, was about to give a lecture Tuesday [...]

This seems to afflict a large number of people……

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. P. B. Medawar British (Brazilian-born) anatomist (1915 – )  

ETC Reports User Generated Content Here to Stay

in this coverage in Modern Agent which then begs the question: “Why aren’t they and their members there?” offering innovative tools for the millions of visitors to Europe to share the wealth of their collective wisdom for future travelers rather than maintaining traditional, and in many cases outdated websites. I understand there is an effort [...]

Humanizing the digital travel experience

is the title of a new Forrester Report that Travel Weekly’s Arnie Weismann comments on. If by “humanizing” the report means to say that the clock needs to be turned back to a pre-digital travel experience, it seems to me as a non-starter. Commodity products / services such as an airline seat can no longer [...]

Visualization of Data

This is one of the most fascinating ways to present the top websites and their interrelation I’ve seen and a great example of how data can be visually presented: You can find out more – including how to download it in various formats including a Mac screensaver on the iA – Information Architects website It’s [...]

5000 Web Apps in 333 seconds…..

introduced by SimpleSpark Whatever your take is on web 2.0 as a term, it’s amazing what’s happening with all the new applications being introduced and how many will change the way we interact and communicate on the web. Tags: web2.0