Charlie discusses the future of Twitter and touches on what I think are two key points: corporate twitter and content subscription. The key as Charlie discusses is the opt-in and one-way nature of Twitter. That is, I only get updates from someone if I explicitly choose to receive them, and the party...
I've said before that I hate the term Web 2.0 but that it's more than a buzzword . Perhaps what I meant to say is what Marc Andreessen said: there's no such thing as Web 2.0 ( via Fred Wilson ) - thing being the key word there. The first Web 2.0 conference was held in the fall of 2004, and coincided...
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The Machine is us. ( Link to the video )
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Kevin writes about Zamzar , a free web-based service that converts audio, video and documents from one format to another (via Download Squad ). Sounds cool, but would you trust them with your sensitive data? I don't know about you, but I barely trust Google or Microsoft with this information. Should...
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on 11-03-2006
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Red Swoosh is making its peer-to-peer distribution channel available for free , supported by advertising shown to every fifth downloader. Their technology has interested me since I first heard about it on a Web 2.0 Show interview from BarCamp LA back in May. I'm still very surprised that BitTorrent hasn...