Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
What is the reason for this Obama phenomenon? Why is it happening right now, at this moment of history?
Is it because of his eloquent speeches? Is it because people in this country are so tired of the current reality that they want to depart from it as far as possible? ...
Posted in politics, web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 5th, 2007
I wrote a while ago about the confusion of web 2.0 and some of my thoughts in various posts:
Web 2.0: The Confusion (http://www.coachwei.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/7/2556717.html);
What is Web 2.0?( http://www.coachwei.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/7/2556746.html)...
Michael Turyn sent this to me today - after listening to this web 2.0 song, I am compelled to respond to the call ...
Posted in humor | No Comments »
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
Web 2.0: The Paradigm Shifts
Web 2.0 refers to the 2nd generation web that is driven by two paradigm shifts from the first generation web:
A usage paradigm shift
A technology paradigm shift
Architecture of Participation: A Usage Paradigm Shift
The usage paradigm shift ...
Posted in web 2.0 | 4 Comments »
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
What Is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is the next evolution of the web that has a new usage paradigm as well as a new technology paradigm. The former is characterized by “architecture of participation” and the latter is characterized by “architecture ...
Posted in web 2.0 | 5 Comments »
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
Web 2.0: the State of Confusion
Web 2.0 is exciting, but there are lots of confusions today, even among noted experts.
There are two schools of opinions among experts. The first school is critical of Web 2.0. This group is represented ...
Posted in web 2.0 | 4 Comments »
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Web 2.0 Re-examined:
The Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
Abstract
This essay re-examines web 2.0 by looking at its technology stack and impact on enterprise computing, in contrast to the common consumer-centric point of view. Categorizing the landscape into Consumer Web 2.0 and Enterprise Web 2.0, the essay establishes a web ...
Posted in web 2.0 | 11 Comments »
Friday, October 13th, 2006
What is Internet Messaging Bus? Internet Messaging Bus is an enhanced web communication layer built on top of HTTP that supports two-way, bi-directional communications as well as reliable messaging.
We all know HTTP, the communication layer of Web 1.0. Recently, we also started to realize some of the limitations of HTTP. ...
Posted in WebDev, web 2.0 | 16 Comments »
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
Web 2.0 is Hot in Japan but Nobody Knows MySpace
I was in Tokyo during the week of September 18th attending the 21st ProWise Forum, a business oriented information technology conference. Still feeling residual heat from the $900M Google/MySpace deal and the lonegirl15 phenomenon, I decided to talk about web 2.0 ...
Posted in asia, conference | 2 Comments »
Monday, September 11th, 2006
My readers probably know that I am excited about web 2.0 and have been a champion for it for many years. Six years ago, I started a company (Nexaweb) providing software for building enterprise web 2.0 solutions because I was convinced that Web 1.0 has a lot of limitations and ...
Posted in web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Duh! Isn’t it obvious that every organization should have a Web 2.0 story? I know it is obvious to us techies. But the more I talk to the business community (including technology leaders), the more I realize that Web 2.0 is not obvious to them at all. A lot of ...
Posted in software business model, web 2.0 | 3 Comments »
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
A friend of mine mentioned a list of companies after reading my previous post (Web 2.0 Movers and Shakers):1. 1-800-FREE-411 (http://www.jinglenetworks.com/): raised $400K A round + $26M B Round, located in CA. Interesting concept yet quite simple - My qestions are: can anybody explain why not TellMe Networks, 1-800-411-Metro, etc ...
Posted in web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
Monday, June 19th, 2006
At the "heyday" of the Internet gold rush, new companies bubbled up on a daily basis trying to revolutionize pet market, toy store, furniture, gay/lesbian commmunity, grocercy, CD distribution... To the point that everyone was scratching their head - Is there anything left to do at all?
Yes, we have tried a ...
Posted in web 2.0 | No Comments »
Thursday, June 8th, 2006
Tim Oreilly wrote one of the first articles trying to define "web 2.0" (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html). This article is influential in helping establishing the concept of web 2.0, but it is very consumer focused and does not get into what web 2.0 is for business.
Dion Hinchcliffe maintains a fairly good blog about ...
Posted in web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Monday, December 12th, 2005
There are lots of conversations around web 2.0. Some people are very skeptical while some are excited about it. There are many startups in the web 2.0 movement:
zimbra.com, heyletsgo.com, meebo.com, writerly.com, Kiko.com, redit.com, etc. Each of them is cool, exciting, while there is no apparent business model looking from the ...
Posted in web 2.0 | 3 Comments »
