The push for Net neutrality suffered a setback yesterday, but it’s not dead yet. Rather, as described by InformationWeek in Net Neutrality Debate Shifts to Full Senate, a tie vote in the Senate Commerce Committee rejected a Net neutrality amendment. While a setback for advocates of Net neutrality ...
James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds became popular in the same general time frame as Web 2.0 morphed into a major buzzword for a more interactive, user-involving Web. The main premise of Surowiecki’s book is that groups often “know” more than even expert individuals and hence make better decisions. ...
One of the major elements of Web 2.0 is that sites can leverage user-created content. Users can create articles, forum postings, reviews, videos, photos, or anything else you can imagine, and post them to the site. Other users can enhance this content by tagging it, by rating it, ...
Here’s the downside of community building and social networking, apparently: MSNBC.com reports Google’s Orkut hit by data-stealing worm. (more…)
Reviews of the new show Treasure Hunters haven’t all been glowing - examples include the Baltimore Sun’s A scavenger hunt without a clue and Reality TV’s Treasure Hunters Lacks Mystery But Holds Some Promise. Nevertheless, the highly promoted NBC show is the first I recall where a search engine ...
Even as Web advertising is reaching new heights, we learn that it is very underweighted in ad spending. I sat in on a briefing session from the Online Publishers Association called Eyes on the Internet. The Chicago session was quite crowded, with a diverse group of advertising and ...
Google cofounder Sergey Brin is having second thoughts about the firm’s China deal, in which Google agreed to censor sites listed by the Chinese government. Many of these banned sites are political or religious in nature. When Google first announced the deal, many were critical of it as ...
Bruce Nussbaum at BusinessWeek.com raises, and answers, an interesting question: Are CEOs A Tech Gap in Themselves? You Bet. The more I listen and learn, the more I’m convinced that members of the corporate elite of America are technologically backward and a threat to their own companies. Outside the tech/net space ...
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