Everybody wants to be Google of Something. And why not? Google is so successful — even today its shares jumped up by about 10% to an unbelievable number — compared to any other company in the space. So I was not surprised when I read — via John Battelle’s blog – in Chicago Tribune that [...]
A second Internet revolution? Not really… by ZDNet‘s Dan Farber — While the cognoscenti call it Web 2.0, Gartner calls the next phase of the modern Internet (beginning circa 1995) the “second revolution.” Instead of mashups, syndication and social media, Gartner’s analysts talk about micropayments, services and Web-enabled communities. They are both talking about the [...]
When artists and technologists start closely working, some interesting things start happening. There are interesting projects in CalIT2 project between UCSD and UCI — two campuses of University of California. There are similarly interesting collaborations between artists and technologists at two other campuses — Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. On the opening of a new [...]
Web2.0 has attracted Attention of several people. Tim O’Reilly’s paper on this topic has been the most ‘defining document’, but still there are so many apects to Web2.0 that this is like that famous ‘six blind men and the elephant’ situation. In my class on entrepreneurism, I gave a simple home work to students to [...]