As your data, your contacts, pics and life reside more and more in the cloud, someone had to step up and provide a way to back them up. Backupify is the Iomega – or the Dropbox, if you prefer – for your web2.0 lifestyle. And its founder is brilliant.
AD 2000: DoubleClick. AD 2010: DoubleClick by Google. Duepuntozero, insomma. Da che si capisce che anche le nuove dotcom – ah, no, non si chiamano più dotcom, le dotcom erano quelle dell’altra stagione, quella che adesso pudicamente chiamano web1.0 – dipendono dalla pubblicità. Quindi, dov’è tutta sta novità di questo web2.0? A parte gli angoli smussati, le tagcloud e i nomi ancora più stronzi di quelli dello scorso giro…
Stop dumping every one of your feeds into another account. Use each service for what it is or for what you think it should be used, or don’t use it at all. Stop spamming.
Sometimes, sharing information is just too much. Can I rob your house?
web1.0: we will burn VC money like crazy, and then make a ton of money by selling banner ads to the next generation of clueless dotcoms. In the meantime, please give us more VC money.
web2.0: we could make a few bucks with Adsense, but would rather not so we can hope for a much higher valuation if/when they buy us out. In the meantime, we organize “web3.0″ conferences.
Vive a San Francisco. Giacomo (Peldi) Guilizzoni, bolognese, è il fondatore di Balsamiq. Qui racconta i risultati del secondo anno della sua startup e i suoi piani per il futuro.
Web 2.0 is the second bubble [...].
(But) the real bubble to be afraid of is not the Web Bubble 2.0 – it’s the massive run-up in asset prices, real estate and stocks, post the Fed-driven increase in liquidity of the last five years. If that one pops, watch out.
- Naval Ravikant, December 2005
There are no such things as “social networks”. There’s Facebook.
When was the last time you logged in to Friendster, Bebo or Orkut?
And what is “social media”? Is it what social networks become once
you have to try to monetize them by sticking ads all over the place?
In mezzo a tante robe 2.0 che non si capisce bene a chi o a cosa servano, ho scoperto Balsamiq. Balsamiq è un software semplice e intuitivo per fare i mockup dei siti. Pur essendo io estremamente poco paziente, finora mi sono trovato bene. Cercherò di fare una recensione dettagliata a breve.
Many of the things we now like to call web2.0 have been around for a long time. Dave Winer’s Manila-based blog scripting.com, for example, is in its 11th year. Blogger.com has been around since 1999. So-called user-generated content, as horrible as it sounds, as if we were doing nothing but creating the crap content necessary in old media for advertisers to advertise against, is not even a novelty of the online world – classified ads were printed on dead trees well before Craigslist. Many other things we take for new today were already there in the days of web1.0.
The Centre Pompidou is an art and research center designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and British architect Richard Rogers in the Beaubourg area of the IVe arrondissement in Paris. One of the most striking features of the Centre Pompidou is that the architects decided to break with architectural conventions by moving functional elements such as escalators, water pipes and air conditioning tubes to the outside of the building, freeing up interior space for the display of art. And yes, the pipes are all color-coded: blue for air, green for water, and yellow for electricity.
So, here’s my point: if we don’t blind ourselves to the fact that Ebay had its feedback forum from the get-go and was a community well before if was a marketplace, that Amazon.com gave us not only e-commerce, but also consumer reviews and collaborative filtering, and that we had friends on ICQ and AIM and Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger – if not on sites that show us our network of friends and our friends’ networks, what we are doing today with web2.0 is turning everything inside-out, just like Piano and Rogers did with pipes and tubes at the Centre Pompidou.
There were social features back then, but they were in the background, or sometimes downright hidden, whereas today you see the social part up-front, and often in a very visual way such as a tagcloud. On Anobii, you see nothing but the social part, whereas on Amazon.com it’s just a feature. Some online newspapers pay lip-service to the fact that readers count and allow them to vote if they like an article or not – but usually don’t display the vote count, nor do they demote an article nobody likes, which instead is exactly what happens on social news sites such as Digg.
What’s more – and done better than Piano and Rogers could have ever done in the design of the Centre Pompidou – putting the tubes on the outside is not merely smart, colorful and pretty to see. With RSS, Yahoo! Pipes and APIs, it feels like the beautiful Beaubourg neighbourhood in Paris where this incredible building was landed thirty years ago had been invited to remake itself in the same fashion as the Centre Pompidou. And that is indeed some really good architecture.
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