Comments on: Davos07: Beyond Web 2.0

By: monitor - somdaj.com » A few things I find interesting

monitor - somdaj.com » A few things I find interesting — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:42:22 +0000

[...] We can never talk about Web 3.0 , I guess, because Wikipedia has permanently banned the topic. (Hat tip to the Buzz Machine) This is kind of funny that some visionaries are so far out ahead of a society that barely acknowledges Web 2. (See John Markoffâ€™s November 2006 article in the New York Times about Web 3.0) To me, this quote from the article really explains what the visionaries are discussing: [...]

By: markbeaulieu

markbeaulieu — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:22:33 +0000

What’s Next? I am sitting in Amsterdam at the GSM Connection Manager Conference defining the certain future of the ultramobile highspeed Internet. Appropriate as the city of freedom, the discussion here is on the basis for identity, “invisible presence”, and mobile personal media. This is different from Gage’s virtual reality and turning to “embodied virtuality”, where connections and presence is in all things - the thesis of Xerox’s Mark Weiser. Taking Markov’s article to another level and the future of the web. But looking forward more to your report from Davos.

By: Marko

Marko — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:17:40 +0000

And now we’ve got the clones like smootsy.com. But wasn’t Youtube also a clone (of DailyMotion) and MSN a clone of ICQ? And Myspace a clone of Facebook? I am thinking out loud here. Maybe one of the Second Life clones will get it right and then people will flock to that site - can I say site anymore? How about ‘online cloud’?

By: Hard numbers on Second Life « I’m Simon Dickson.

Hard numbers on Second Life « I’m Simon Dickson. — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:36:13 +0000

[...] Hard numbers on Second Life Published January 24th, 2007 Opinion I’m personally getting a bit tired of Second Life. I thought the hype had died down, but then Sky News runs two (or was it more?) packages in the Technofile slot saying how great it is. So thanks to Jeff Jarvis for some hard numbers, which I hadn’t seen elsewhere. At this morningâ€™s session, John Markoff (New York Times) admits that he hasnâ€™t gotten past the opening and I admit I have not either. Itâ€™s small. They have 334,000 â€œregular visitors,â€ (David Kirkpatrick of Fortune magazine) says - though thatâ€™s only people who come back after a month while 2.6 million have come and most, like Markoff and me, give up. [...]