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Web 2.0: I Told You So

Chris Pirillo: "Your favorite “Web 2.0″ (the ethereal movement) applications are still walled gardens - to the nth degree. Web 2.0, the conference, belongs to O’Reilly and CMP. Web 2.0, the ethereal movement, doesn’t exist."
I like some of the ideas affiliated with Web 2.0 although not so much the term. Chris is right now- the [...]

PC World’s Top 100 products? Ummm, I don’t think so.

PC World has posted a list of the "100 best products of the year" which includes various technologies including hardware, software, and other services. The list is junk- plain and simple. Here are a few examples:

The Xbox 360 is #89 on the list. Quick- can you think of 88 products that are more interesting than [...]

SharePoint v2 vs. v3- Major Productivity Improvements

Lonnie's Blog: "The Sharepoint 2007 feature goal was a 2 deep task mentality, which essentially means that any task performed within Sharepoint 2007 should be accessible with just 2 clicks.  Believe me, after seeing the deep hierarchy and confusion in understanding administrative tasks in Sharepoint V2, this is a major time saver."
I'm hoping that we'll [...]

Share Your OPML needs more users

Michael Arrington: "SYO (Share Your OPML) needs more users. My guess is a few thousand have already uploaded their reading lists, but it will take a lot more before the data is really reflective of what most people are reading. To do this, SYO needs to add more value than it currently does for users."
I think that [...]

The Bungie Waaahmbulance

Bungie: "Contrary to popular belief, you are not permitted to set the terms of your ban."

Web 2.0 trademark

Cory Doctorow: "O'Reilly needs to choose whether it's going to retain control the word "Web 2.0" for conferences, or retain control over the shifts that created the Web 2.0 phenomenon."
I'm shocked that I agree with Cory here. It is very likely that there is no real trademark here for O'Reilly- certainly not within the spirit [...]

Introducing InfoCard

David Chappell: "While Passport wasn't a failure–it's used today by lots of people–the main thing Microsoft learned from it seems to be that a single-source model for identity will never suffice. What's needed is a way to use the plethora of existing identity systems in an effective way–an identity metasystem."
David has done a great job [...]

Share Your OPML- A very useful OPML application

TechCrunch notes the revamped OPML sharing application from Dave Winer, share.opml.org, or Share Your OPML. I'm a big fan of this app because I always want to find new things to read and seeing what other people are reading is a great way to do that. It is also a sobering reality check for me [...]

Quoth the Burningbird, “Nevermore.”

Shelley Powers: "I am closing down Burningbird… My site has come to remind me of the homes of people who never throw anything away. They still have their old National Geographics, Avon bottles, and disco pants that didn’t fit well when they were new, much less now decades later. Unfortunately, there is no jumble sale [...]