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Web 2.0: An umbrella term for the second wave of the World Wide Web, which was coined by O'Reilly Media (www.oreilly.com) and CMP Media (www.cmp.com) in their 2004 and subsequent conferences on...; Full Web 2.0 Definition >>

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Microsoft, Yahoo, Google: All Aboard!: Information Architects New Years gift to the world was: Web Trend Map 2007!What is it?It shows all the big players, the current Internet trends and how they’re connected, using the Tokyo Metro map. It’s totally unscientific and almost useless, but definitely fun to look at. Fun indeed. But what is...; Tags: Culture, Google, Microsoft, Web 2.0, Yahoo; Blog posts 2007-05-14
Can video make reading sexy? CBS to launch book channel online: “Video killed the radio star”? So sings The Buggles.CBS Corporation’s Simon & Schuster, however, is singing the praises of video to make books stars and is creating a new “book-centric” Internet video channel aimed at doing just that: BookVideos.tv!Slated for a June launch, BookVideos.tv will “humanize authors,” Sue Fleming, Vice...; Tags: Culture, Marketing, The Real Deal, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-05-10
Who needs 'dead tree' old media? Virtually everyone: Whats better than YouTube clip culture entertainment on an almost weekend?A post sponsored by Wired magazine written by an unamed person, or persons, under the unauthorized, assumed identity of Steve Jobs, titled "Radically, transparentally stupid."Topic? As described by Wired magazines NOT Jobs:Hilarious groveling letter from Rubel to "Mr. Louderback" and...; Tags: Web 2.0, Print, Metrics, Media, Marketing, Culture, Blogs; Blog posts 2007-04-26
Watch out Google? Yellow Pages meets Del.icio.us in YellowBot: Can Google win at Local? That is the $39 billion advertising question. Just as Google’s AdWords fueled billions can readily drive a multi-billion dollar takeover of the online display advertising market, in other words a DoubleClick buyout, Google’s spare cash can easily subsidize free local directory assistance service, in...; Tags: Social Web, Social Networking, Advertising, Yellow Pages, Web 2.0, Social Software, Social Media, Marketing, Local, Google, Culture; Blog posts 2007-04-23
Google: Any rain on My Maps parade?: Is the latest incarnation of Google Maps the closest thing to heaven on earth, literally?Perusing Techmeme would suggest so, starting with the Official Google Blog declaration that a new My Maps feature is “Map-making: So easy a caveman could do it.” Google’s message is on Googley target and typically widely...; Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Amateur Content, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-04-05

Google IS a public service, sometimes: To start the Google New Year, I asked rhetorically “Is Google a public service?,” by juxtaposing Google’s public facing mission statement with that of The Library of Congress.For big profit Google’s mission statement is a seemingly public serving one, “Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”...; Tags: Web 2.0, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture; Blog posts 2007-04-02
Yahoo on the fringe! The big Y Goes underground, big time: Shouldn’t the holy grail of UGC, User Generated Content, really be all about the Users, as in user culture, as opposed to corporate culture?YES, and Yahoo gets it, big time, with the launch of “Yahoo Underground,” a funky, seeking to be no holds barred first-hand trip inside of “unexplored worlds,”...; Tags: Yahoo, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Culture, Amateur Content; Blog posts 2007-04-01
Welcome Google to your Digital Home!: Google wants you in its Cloud today. Tomorrow, make way for Google in your Digital Home!LG, “Life’s Good,” so touts LG Electronics, and it will undoubtedly be even better when things get Googley, in the LG + G for Google home of the future!Think “Ten Commandments” Google is satisfied with...; Tags: Web 2.0, TV, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture; Blog posts 2007-03-31
Google Maps under siege: Who says being the number one search engine in the world is all glory?Google really does want to organize all the world’s information. What goes with all the world’s territory? Accountability to the entire world!I recently asked rhetorically “Is Google a public service?” U.S. Rep. Brad Miller apparently thinks so!The...; Tags: Web 2.0, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture; Blog posts 2007-03-30
Google news and views: Google hacking, domains and job interviews: NEW Digital Markets Series: Google News and ViewsNoteworthy Google links from all around the World Wide Web!A New Googely Hire, pre-indoctrinatedMark Pilgrim, "Two visions," 3/19/07There are two basic visions of the future of the Web, and one of them is wrong. Im going to work on the right one for...; Tags: YouTube, Yellow Pages, Yahoo, Web 2.0, Video, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-03-30
Hillary Clinton, Democrats lead Republicans in Web race to the White House: Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Hillary Clinton began her online presidential “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008 “conversation” early and it is paying off. “Hillary for President” is leading in national opinion polls and on the Web. “If the...; Tags: Social Software, John McCain, John Edwards, President Clinton, Social Capital, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, User Generated Politics, Politics, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Video, User-Generated Content, Culture, Government, Local, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-14
Google vs Old Media: Who needs YouTube?: Who needs YouTube? That is the $1.65 billion dollar online video question. Google CEO Eric Schmidt confidently let it be known this week that every mainstream professional video content producer does, in very Googley take it or leave it terms. Vicaom does not believe it needs YouTube, however,...; Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, Video, YouTube, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content; Blog posts 2007-03-08
Digg at 1 million diggers: Digital media democracy or algorithm rule?: Kevin Rose is proudly singing the praises of his Digg today, 1,000,000 praises: It’s now been more than two years since the first story was submitted and dugg on Digg. Since then you guys have helped Digg move from a personal project amongst a group of friends to a...; Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Digg, Self-Promotion, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-08
NBA video highlight mixer: Fans are in control!: AT NBA.com, fans users are really in control, of their own “NBA movie”!Get media, mix movies, share, the NBA Fan Voice declares. Steve Grimes, Vice President of Interactive Services for NBA Entertainment:The NBA.com Highlight Mixer provides our fans with easy-to-use editing tools along with the broadest selection and highest quality...; Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Media, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-03-08
YouTube: What Google CEO Eric Schmidt really thinks: I feel as if I have been traversing the country with Google CEO Eric Schmidt this week! Yesterday I enjoyed lunch with him during his address to the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco (read my first-hand report in “Google CEO extols $800 billion advertising opportunity”). I spent...; Tags: Wall Street, Search Advertising, Metrics, Content, Copyright, Google Software Applications, Television, TV, Brands, YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Media, Web 2.0, Business Models; Blog posts 2007-03-06
Web 2.0: Are Cisco, News Corp., Viacom, Gannett really clueless?: In the Web 2.0 social networking “users are in control” world, mega corporations must be feeling we’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t! I polled a few weeks back “Poor Google?,” noting a string of setbacks and a underwhelming 2007 beginning. Google, of course, is “everyone’s favorite...; Tags: Newspapers, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Print, Video, YouTube, Content, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Culture, Google, Enterprise, Web 2.0, Usability, Media; Blog posts 2007-03-05
Web 2.0 meets USA Today: Citizen journalism for the masses: From the editors of USA Today: "We have redesigned USAToday.com, but more important, we are expanding our editorial mission."HOW? By asking YOU to “Add YOUR voice to our coverage.”USAToday.com solicits “engage our website in whole new ways”:What’s everyone talking about?Interested in what your fellow readers are following? When scanning headlines,...; Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Social Networking, Social Media, Print, Social Software, Amateur Content, Content, Social Web, Culture, Citizen Journalism; Blog posts 2007-03-05
Obama trouncing Clinton in MySpace race: Edition number 28 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”MySpace is a hotly contested virtual battleground in “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008. Barack Obama is en route to a landslide victory over Hillary Clinton in the MySpace friends...; Tags: User Generated Politics, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Social Web, Amateur Content, MySpace, Culture, Government, Web 2.0, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, Social Software, Barack Obama; Blog posts 2007-03-05
Andreessen vs. Cisco: Web 2.0 platform competition heats up: Is Marc Andreessen, Netscape co-creator and Ning turnkey social networking platform co-founder, worried that powerhouse Cisco is raining on his social networking parade?"The idea that Cisco is going to be a force in social networking is about as plausible as Ning being a force in optical switches,” he said to...; Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Enterprise, Marketing, Media, Self-Promotion, Social Capital, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Software, VC, Venture Capital, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-03-03
Why Google needs Viacom, big time!: John Battelle to Big Media on Googles YouTube: “Forget the deal.” Battelle’s latest “old media doesn’t get it” piece is a rambling follow-up to a Mark Cuban verdict that old media hasn’t figured things out, YouTube things that is. Battelle’s confidence in his lack of confidence in mega...; Tags: Advertising, Brands, Content, Copyright, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Marketing, Media, Metrics, Movies, ROI, Television, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-03-02