Post written by Noam Fixler As the big players of the Internet economy fight for control over the market, John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly of the Web 2.0 summit team decided to portray these battles on a map. Last year they created a map that showcases the players in our network economy, gathered around various territories that represent the Web 2.0′s Points of Control. These ‘points of control’ include “Union of Social Networks“, “Land of [...]

If we look back in history , we will find that much before Facebook, MySpace and YouTube, there was ICQ. For anyone who doesn’t know, ICQ was created in 1996 and is now wholly owned by AOL. ICQ was THE pioneer of social media and real time updates. It introduced us to instant messaging and a revolutionary new way to communicate with people instantly in real time. ICQ could have been Facebook or Twitter a long time [...]

10. May Google Wave turns out to be a lot more convincing than what I’ve seen so far 9. May people stop giving relevance to terms like Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 and start giving relevance to what those terms mean 8. May advertisers finally admit the fact that that they cannot do without social media playing an integral part in their campaigns 7. May Web entrepreneurs start thinking more about the type of Web tools that [...]

When Connie Talbot (age six) got up to sing in Briton’s Got Talent back in 2007 the judges were no less wowed, the audience no less thrilled and production no less stage-managed  than Susan Boyle’s performance a few weeks back. Connie Talbot’s audition video was uploaded to YouTube the day after her audition was broadcast and as of today has a very respectable 40+ million views. Yet somehow all of Connie’s videos put together have [...]

Let’s face it the barrier of entry to build a Web app these days is ridiculously low; developer tools are free, there are tons of good script libraries (especially the YUI) and companies like Amazon provide hosting and computing in a pay-per-use model. It seems that any group of kids hacking around is able to simply and cheaply build a website or app and as a result of that there is a huge glut of [...]