Articles about Web 2.0 as of September 18, 2009

In the Web analytics industry, there has been an ongoing debate for some time over whether analytics is easy, hard, complex, or both hard and complex.  Certain thought leaders advocate for each categorization.  My take on it is “it depends” on the tools you are using, the site you are analyzing, your company’s requirements, your team’s skill set, and the processes you define for analytics.  Let’s dig a little deeper into each of these concepts: Your tools .  While Web analytics tools all share

38 interesting ways to use wordle in the classrom – excellent slideshare by Tom Barrett where you can also make your contribution with your own creative ideas.

Cisco conducted one of the first comprehensive studies of the factors associated with successful adoption of network-based collaboration solutions . You can use the study results to maximize your return on investment from today’s online collaboration tools. One way is to implement business practices shown to lead to more enthusiastic collaboration. Another is to identify and then actively support the employees who are most likely to benefit.

Closing In On Launch, Twitter Tweaks Its Retweet API And Shares A Picture Of How It Will Look In the Twitter API Announcement Google Group today, developer Marcel Molina posted a couple interesting updates about the upcoming Retweet API. First, the launch of the new API is “close at hand.” In fact, Molina notes that users may already be seeing the new style retweet/status messages from users who are currently testing out the feature. Second, and more importantly, Twitter is making a pretty significant change to the API prior to launch.

A lot of people are coming around the idea of organizing and producing African content for the African population. Online this has taken many forms like Afrigator the African Aggregator, and Maneno the African multilingual blogging platform. Afrikeo has joined the fray trying to help organize all your African content under one platform, which as an idea is wonderful but  implementation wise is dodgey. Afrikeo does this by acting like a blog aggregator which pulls content from all over the African blogosphere and news site and then presenting it for people to view.

“Has recognition of the power of openness, mass collaboration, crowdsourcing and “ collaboratories” to solve problems and innovate become just the way we work?” This was the question I posed prior to the TAP the Collective event in this TheAppGap post . Melody Hildebrandt , TAP Conference organizer, spoke with me about the 3 themes emerging from the event presentations and discussions: Click here to view the embedded video.

On this episode of Spark: Augmented reality, chiptune jazz, and a world without email Spark listeners confess the number of email messages in their inboxes Nora mentions Luis Suarez ’s video from the Web 2.0 Expo: Thinking Outside the Inbox Luis Suarez explains how he got rid of corporate email and replaced it with social software tools Nora mentions Yammer , which is like Twitter for companies Marla Thirsk is still on dial-up, and wishes she had broadband Broadband Canada

The landscape of marketing for real estate agents has changed quite a bit over the past number of years. This is largely because the real estate market has become very competitive. Many smaller realtors are just not able to compete and they are forced to close shop. Those who are doing a good job and making profits are doing so because they have good marketing techniques. Even the big boys in this industry are looking to some of the small fry for various reasons.

These days, I’m working with a small company that basically helps TV stations to adopt the latest technology. The latest technology in broadcasting is digital and “tapeless”. Gone will be the days when films, shows, and commercials were recorded onto video tapes and ultimately stored as such on endless shelves in the basement (see picture). Tapes will be replaced by computer files and the basement shelves by a few fancy hard drives.

Or what do we want academics to research for us? Blogging at 20? The future and potential of social media Panelists: Kara Swisher,Wall Street Journal Dave Sifry, Technocrati Richard Allan, Facebook Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton Chair: William Dutton, Oxford University If social media are the defining advance of Web 2.0, whereby the network-as-platform enabled users not just to download content but to create it, tag it and share it, what will the next decade hold?

We are excited to announce office hours at Dogpatch Labs San Francisco starting Wednesday, September 23rd. Office hours will be held on Wednesday mornings from 9am-11:30am and include coffee, bagels and good conversation. Come by to meet Polaris, Dogpatch residents, solicit feedback on your latest project, get a tour of the Lab, etc. Office ours are entirely open and drop-ins are welcome (but you can also feel free to let us know ahead of time).

So, perhaps youre a chiropractor who decided to purchase a fancy and costly website, believing that this would magically drive new patients through your door. My guess is that a practice management group was the mastermind behind this fruitless scheme. Are you still struggling month to month, and paying a bundle on inefficient marketing? Youre not alone, because in my experience almost all chiropractors are digging this same grave. Thats because without traffic to your website, you dont have a website.

Akopo is a blogging platform which raised heads when it was launched a while back. It is a blogging platform for the French speaking African community, which we have run into once or twice. The best description of Akopo is from whiteafrican which states Akopo , a blogging, chat and games platform, was created by another fellow African blogger: Nino . It was created using the LifeType open source blogging platform, and seems like it has quite a bit of traction (hopefully Nino will fill us in on the numbers).

There are countless Internet companies , including marketing the more common subsidiary for when seeking additional information on it then the first place to look is a site that was built for this purpose. The first and could help support the start and eventually succeed in this business too. It is important that you know how to identify what information is useful and applicable in your business to reduce their extra workload.

by Mark Bradley It has been just a month when you made this decision of using Twitter social marketing to market your real estate business. You finally made a big step to get your slice of pie and share with the benefits that other businessmen are getting. As you noticed, a lot of them became successful on using these social networking sites which seems to be the latest tool in business nowadays. More and more people get a lot of benefits through these sites. One of the famous social networking sites nowadays is Twitter.

Social media, so what? Assessing the impact of blogs and social media Panelists: Stefan Niggemeier, BILDblog Evgeny Morozov, Georgetown University Matthew Hindman, Arizona State University Richard Allan, Facebook Chair: Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Oxford University Theorists such as Yochai Benkler have suggested that the accessibility and inherently social nature of Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, social networking and wikis mean that we might expect them to enhance our democratic freedoms through the opening of new channels for debate and collaboration.

Earlier this week I attended the EMEA user conference of Service-Now.com , probably the leading SaaS pureplay vendor in enterprise IT service management. Co-founded by former Peregrine Systems and Remedy CTO Fred Luddy, Service-now champions a Web 2.0 approach to systems management, an approach that’s often described as the consumerization of IT. But watching Luddy’s opening presentation, it struck me the term is a misnomer.

In a recent AdAge column, Steve Rubel of Edelman wrote an excellent essay on the increasing power of pull that led me to think about how our mix of push and pull services can serve public relations and marketing professionals in these ever-changing times.There’s no doubt that the world of information dissemination is shifting.  Previously dominated by Push (think Television, Radio, Newspapers, and Magazines), where information is relatively scarce and blasted out to wide audiences, we’re now

Web Page Performance was one of the big topics at the Ajax Experience in Boston this week. Steve Souders – author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites – talked about the top things to look into when analyzing web page performance. Business impact on Web Site Performance Steve presented some recently published studies from [...] Related posts: Web 2.0 at the Ajax Experience 2009 in Boston TechTarget is hosting the Ajax Experience Conference in Boston from…

Cashback available — I’ve been trying out Microsoft’s new search engine Bing, mostly out of curiosity, and partly to see how alternatives to Google feel for everyday use. Naturally, one of the first queries I conducted was an ego search. The results are reasonable enough, but what really caught my eye is that I am for sale. Given the tough economic conditions, I’m glad to see that I’m even available with a cashback incentive. Act now, quantities are limited…. ( read more )

Twitter real estate is becoming more and more popular because the numbers of companies being crazy with this social networking site are increasing. Many of those companies find real estate blog networking marketing effective in endorsing their company to almost all of the people in the whole world. It is a rule that if your site has a lot of audience, your Twitter real estate site is considered doing well. Once you become a Twitter user, it is your responsibility to make more people follow your updates.

p2pnet news view Music | Politics:- Well I finally figured out who Lily Allen is. Truth be told, I’d never heard of her before a recent p2pnet article [ Lily Allen disses P2P file sharing ] about her sucking up to Britain’s Lord Mandelson and his doomed-to-failure fight against ‘piracy’. Let me be very clear here: the fact that the mainstream media’s latest “flavor of the month” fails to understand p2p, copyright reform, or ‘free culture’ in general shouldn’t surprise anybody in the least.  Celebrities are supposed to be vapid and willing to repeat whatever their corporate paymasters want them to repeat.

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[Editor's note: IndieProjector lets users approach map projection as a Web 2.0 task. Anyone can upload data and reproject into a number of useful presets. This visualization shows the geographies popular with users, their data coverage. Most users are mapping the US and parts there of. But a few things stand out to me. Iran, a couple places in Africa, and the surprising number of people who think the world ends at the Rio de la Plata, Capetown, Melbourne, and Fairbanks.

After my previous post on Free and Law Firms , a new thing caught my attention in this area. In that post, I focused on some ways that the legal services industry is adopting some of the models Chris Anderson describes in his book. WhichDraft is a resource that allows users to build a variety of high quality contracts free of charge. Users build contracts by answering a series of simple questions. WhichDraft then provides sample contractual provisions.

A quick reminder on Smartcamp – which is happening in Dublin on October 15th 2009 Great resources for entrepreneurs - Mentors – including folks from SeedCamp - Cash – Smartcamp is a partner of the NDRC – €25k prizes - Corporate partners and international VCs Apply before October 1st

The “Did You Know?” videos have been a hallmark of Web 2.0 presentations and blog posts for a few years now, with their cool music, astounding statistics, and nice animations. This year is version 4.0, and this time, it feels much less surprising, and a little less focused.Is that because the future is now mainstream? Is it because we’ve changed?(Thanks to Jill O’Neill of NFAIS for the pointer.)

I have been out for a while. Not ill. Just out. I’m trying to get back into it…again. One thing I have been keeping up with is my blog readings. It’s a great way to start the day by firing up your RSS reader, and finding out what the people you are stalking following are talking about. One of my recent finds has been Blagger ( www.blagger.co.uk ). No, it’s not a freebees website. If you want that go to www.moneysavingexpert.com . What Blagger is is a blog about becoming self sufficient, but in a gradual easy going way.

A couple of years ago we saw the real estate market crashed and burn. People were losing homes to foreclosure for non payment due to loss of job. Right now, times are starting to look up again and so is the market. Many people are coming out of the woodwork as realtors and making a decent living doing it. Online real estate marketing is one of the best ways for you to achieve online success! You may not realize just how much people are utilizing the internet. More people today are looking at and buying homes over the internet.

Posted by Mark BradleyAs you read the title, you might be wondering what the correlation between Twitter and Real Estate Business is. What are the advantages that you can gain as you use it on your Real Estate Business? What are the present elements in this Twitter that can help you with your business? You will know the answers to these questions with this article.As the Internet becomes progressively more integral part of the society, it is now crucial for every business to create an online presence and use this to communicate with their potential client base.

The Natives are Getting Restless: Growing Up and Learning in a Web 2.0 World by Robyn Treyvaud » Moving...

Just looking at the McKinsey Quarterly – Business and Web 2.0: An Interactive Feature and noticing just how much Blogs, Podcasts and Social Networking have been perceived by businesses to be effective (I guess we can all this “Web 2.0 Effectiveness”) Key Tools part of McKinsey Quarterly – Business and Web 2.0: An Interactive Feature The study also shows that Microblogging ( Twitter ) hasn’t been adopted as fully as it could be and that Blogs and Blogging seems to be perceived, overall, as the most effective technology/means to reach customers.

Duncan Riley of The Inquisitr Shares a Popular Post Case Study The questions were set, so the responses to fit the questions. None the less, doing a Q & A like that forces you to think about what you did right and wrong. I actually enjoy it, and some might actually find value in what we’ve revealed.

Publishing to the web has never been easier, with the proliferation of content management systems, online blogging platforms, microblogging, and more. However, publishing data is either the preserve of organizations prepared to manage their own IT, or requires individuals to sign up for one web 2.0 service after another. RDFa provides a straightforward means by which data can be published as easily as a web-page can, and the implications are enormous.

Web 2.0 – the truth behind the hype. Evening meeting held at Hamonds LLP, Devonshire Square, London, EC2M 4YH. Speakers: Phil Duffy, Karen Blakeman The slides and screenshots that I showed at yesterday’s CLSIG evening meeting as part of the Web 2.0 debate are now available in various places: PowerPoint presentation on my own RBA web site Slideshare Authorstream As usual, they are mostly screenshots so won’t make much sense unless you were there to hear the discussion.

XBookmarks More »Security software vendor Websense claims 95 percent of user-generated comments on blogs and message boards are either spam or contain malicious code. Article taken by RSS feed.Read the Rest of the Article at: Hackers Targeting Web 2.0 Sites at Alarming Rate Written by · Filed Under SecurityArticle Tags: Security WordPress Bloggers Fall Prey to 'Clever' WormNew scam adds live chat to phishing attackWeb 2.0 security risks scrutinizedApple explains iPhone OS 3.1 Exchange

As a promotion for the new Atmail 6 version, we are launching an updated pricing structure to be more competitive and allow existing users to upgrade to the new release within budget. We have slashed pricing between 30-40% from the larger user licenses, and have made the entry level packages more affordable. What’s the latest pricing? ISP Server edition 1,000 user license - $1,500 10,000 user license - $5,000 Unlimited user license - $12,000 ISP Webmail client 1,000 user license - $1,000 10,000 user license - $4,000 Unlimited user license - $11,000 View the complete price list online and compare the savings.

Keep It Simple Stupid Simple website design is a vastly underestimated tool in a web designer/marketers arsenal. Keeping a web page simple and uncluttered has benefits on both aesthetic and practical levels. The rise of interactive Web 2.0 sites, the need for endless plug-ins and add-ons can often deter less experienced users from a site before they have the chance to make use of anything it has to offer, so it is always important to think of you target demographic before deciding how to go about constructing your site.

Numbley is an aggregrate and online directory of Nigerian microbloggers. At present Nubley is a comprehensible directory of Nigerian microbloggers, and provides a decent list. Nubley is also a aggregrate of all your microblogging platforms, pulling in all your updates on different platforms. You can also send an update to one or more of your accounts via nubley so you don’t have to waste time logging in into all your platforms when you can do it in one central location.

by Rick Lomas As far as video submission software companies go, Traffic Geyser is the main player. This technology is vastly improving as Traffic Geyser gleans more experience from tests and tracking and the constant development of their service. If you are using the new ‘Video Lead Page Generator’ system, youll see the relationship between the views you receive, traffic your videos generate and the number of leads you generate all in the same place.

experience from testing, tracking and making adjustments and enhancements to their service. Every successful marketer does these things and so the guys from Traffic Geyser do the same. Traffic Geyser is a continually evolving product and as the software is web based, this often means there is a small update to look forward to every month or so. If you are using the new ‘Video Lead Page Generator’ system, youll see the relationship between the views you receive, traffic your videos generate and the number of leads you generate all in the same place.

experience from testing, tracking and making adjustments and enhancements to their service. Every successful marketer does these things and so the guys from Traffic Geyser do the same. Traffic Geyser is a continually evolving product and as the software is web based, this often means there is a small update to look forward to every month or so. If you are using the new ‘Video Lead Page Generator’ system, youll see the relationship between the views you receive, traffic your videos generate and the number of leads you generate all in the same place.

As far as video submission software companies go, Traffic Geyser is the main player. This technology is vastly improving as Traffic Geyser gleans more experience from tests and tracking and the constant development of their service. In performing these procedures the people from Traffic Geyser are doing the same as every other successful marketer. There is usually a small update to look forward to every month or so as Traffic Geyser is a web based software and is a frequently growing product.

I spoke to a partner today; he was concerned about my health: Is the blog dead? First, there are far more ways you can get your daily dose of Vlad these days and it’s not all limited to the blog anymore. Every time there is a sigificant technological change some people will not follow; when I dumped my mailing list many people stopped reading my opinions but far more followed on the web/rss.

Erin and I presented a condensed run through the highlights from our social design patterns project and then debuted the beta of our Social Mania card game that aims to teach and facilitate discussions about these interrelated principles, patterns, and practices. Much chaos and hilarity ensued and we learned a lot about how to explain and teach the game and perhaps how best to play it as well. Designing Social Interfaces: 5 steps, 5 principles, 5 anti-patterns View more presentations from erin malone .

What is SEO Spam? Most of us think of spam as junk email. Search engine spam is different. Search engine spam is any means of manipulating search engine spiders to artificially boost a website’s page rank or positioning on search engine results pages. In other words, search engine spam is any tactic employed by site owners to fool search engine spiders. Not a good idea. What is and isn’t spam? Every search engine has its own definition of what constitutes search engine spam so, in essence, spam is whatever search engine geeks say it is.

It seems to have been a week for excellent resources appearing on my desktop. This post looks at four websites that focus on the periodic table (thanks to free stuff for teachers) 1. The periodic table of videos - http://www.periodicvideos.com/# this has appeared in my blog before but is worth a second (or even third visit). This site has video clips for each of the elements (the clips are hosted on youtube). Produced by the University of Nottingham this is an excellent resources (bandwidth permitting) 2.

This week’s TechCrunch 50 conference in San Francisco brought together a number of threads and stories which have been kicking around the back of my mind for while. A little like Borat, I’ve been asking the Americans a lot of questions (though hopefully without the accompanying chaos). The first one seems obvious but is worth spelling [...] Related posts: Data From Seedcamp Shows The Startup Trends In Europe Seedcamp – the rolling European startups programme which started out…

www.TheHomeBusinessExecutive.com – Bert McClure This is my 2nd video in a 5 part mini series on my “Top 5 Frustrations When Running My Online Business” (MLM Goldmine) creators DK & Jimmy Davis have assigned us this as our week 4 homework as we are completing our “90 day challenge”. MLM Goldmine and “MLM Lead System [...]

As you download Google chrome from its official website , you will get the recent stable version of the Chrome. But, if you want to try latest features — you need to have BETA or Developer version. Here are the links to download beta and dev versions of Google Chrome : Beta :  http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=betachannel Dev (alpha)  :  http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=devchannel Dev Version for Mac OS : http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac