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A vision of students today

Michael Wesch, assistant professor of Cultural Anthropology as Kansas State University, recently posted a video on YouTube about students at his school, focusing on how they learn, their hopes and dreams and how their lives will change in their lifetimes. Wesch is also the author of the "Web 2.0...

Tags: Student, YouTube Inc., Vision, Video, Wesch, Corporate Communications, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-16

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Recovery 2.0 - Where Web 2.0 Really Accelerates

Here we are again in another commercial nuclear winter - last time it was predominantly a tech bust, this time tech will be the engine that pulls us out of the recession. I've had several conversations recently about the whole 2.0 suffix being...

Tags: Web, Recovery, Economist, Conference, SXSW, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-21

Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?

This week's Web 2.0 Summit was characterized by some very big picture ideas culminating in final keynote speaker former US vice president Al Gore laying out his vision for a 'Unified National Smart Grid': a new, state of the art integrated electrical infrastructure for the...

Tags: Web, Vision, Al Gore, Grid, Web 2.0 Summit, Michael Wesch, Web 2.0, Transportation, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-08

Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos

Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos"Web 2.0" is Techno-HypeLike so many tech articles posted since Tim O'Reilly coined the term in 2004, this one references "Web 2.0" as if it were something tangible--or at least a concept with clear, concise definition. It is not....

Tags: Channel management, software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., Web 2.0, Web, Intuit QuickBase

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

Everywhere I look, I see Clouds

Everywhere I look, I see CloudsThe only eruption of clouds...is by bloggers. The only ones actually using the cloud are small businesses that either don't have the money for their own network or don't have the qualified IT personnel to do their own.Bloggers need to get a handle on reality....

Tags: Channel management, cloud computing, XML, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

An anthropologist explains Web 2.0 in pictures

Anthropologists study behaviours and social networks. It must be boom times for that profession.Here is Michael Wesch Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University and his YouTube video. It is easily the best definition of Web 2.0 that Ive come across.Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us...

Tags: Culture, Internet 2.0

Blog posts 2007-02-23

Battelle interviews Michael Wesch - the web 2.0 video

Unless youve been hiding under a rock, youve seen the Web 2.0 video created by Michael Wesch, a professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. Its been screaming through the tubes and has been posted and commented on all over the sphere. John Battelle just posted a really fine...

Tags: Blogs, Mobility, Productivity, Software, Web Apps

Blog posts 2007-02-19

Web 2.0 and The Machine in a nutshell

Worth watching: Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, has posted a captivating and incisive 4-minute and 31-second video explaining the basic premise of Web 2.0, concluding that Web 2.0 is primarily about linking people. But it is the journey of this video that is...

Tags: General, Web, Web 2.0, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-02-07