Web 2.0

By Mike Sachoff Chinese search engine Baidu is the fastest site out of China's 50 most popular Web sites according to a public performance ranking by Gomez Inc. Gomez rated sites by response time, availability and consistency in the month of June. Baidu had the lowest response time in the "Gomez Top Traffi...

By Jason Lee Miller Or maybe this was it: In a changing Internet world, get the audience to do the work for you. One zany video was circulated, and he continued to feed the Internet upon request, each of the morsels passing through the system and dropping into the "crapucopia" that is Web 2.0.

By David A. Utter One person found a number of hidden links on the Web 2.0 Effect website, and copied them. A single-pixel tracker for Burton was one of the links. "Why only have a tracker with Burton?" the commentor, a Digg user, asked. Burton Hosting, Virante, Web 2.0 Effect

By David A. Utter A study by Southeastern Louisiana University professor David Wyld for IBM's Center for the Business of Government found that government blogging "does take dedication and a bit of bravery." the definition of Web 2.0 as seen on Bash.org via Reddit.

By Mike Sachoff The new sports site will be similar to the blog format used on celebrity gossip site TMZ, which is a joint partnership of AOL and Telepictures Productions. Along with the Web 2.0 features the sports site includes sports news, columnists, scoreboards and user-generated video.

By David A. Utter Web 2.0 design aesthetics have caught on with the AdSense team. Google has made new options available for tweaking the shape of the ad units. Google updated the overall look of the AdSense ad units in April 2007. Dividing lines between ads vanished, and the "Ads by Google" text moved from the to...

By Solomon Rothman Technorati Tags: web 3.0, search engine technology, social media evolution This is the first part in a 3 part series: Imagining Web 3.0 and Beyond Part 1 – The Mind Blowing Evolution of the Social Web Social Media’s Future Part 2 - The Beauty of Web 3.0

By Brian Solis Panelists included: Tom Biro, Title, Sr. Director, New Media Strategies, MWW Group Jeremy Pepper, Director, Social Media Strategist, Weber Shandwick Worldwide. Does traditional media matter to Web 2.0? How Does Traditional PR Add Value in a the Web 2.0 World?

By Jordan McCollum It’s not an entirely “disinterested” perspective. Siegel’s looking to hire a Web 3.0 intern and says he’s developed a 28-page business plan for “a fund to start Web 3.0 companies here in New York City.” Anyone else have their Web 3.0 predictions ready?

By Pat McCarthy Abandonment is the only way people can leave your site and hurt your conversion rate, so naturally improving the abandonment rate on each page of your website will help your conversion rate. Google Website Optimizer - The only free tool, but have to be using Adwords.

By Pat McCarthy The VC Process The Growth The Exit The Idea VALUE MARKET ADOPTION FAILURE The Company STRUCTURE Rob: So how do you find and choose investors? Check all their websites and blogs, and ask around. DILUTION 1. Pitch 4. More pitches 10. The funding 12. Get to work Comments Tag: Web 2.0 Expo

By Robert Scoble There’s no way I can — alone — test out the search engine’s quality. Here, I’ll start. It’s Videoblogging Week this week. So let’s compare both for “videobloggingweek2007.” That’s a top search on Technorati, so it should bias pretty well for Technorati, right? Let’s see!

By Dan Morrill Functional specifications are the base concept to building any type of code. The businessperson or idea person has to be able to get down into the weeds and go through every thing that the user will be able to do. From expected input, expected output, interlinkages to the back end logic syste...

By Geoff Simon The expo is an addition to the Web 2.0 Summit, previously the Web 2.0 conference, which is the first to address Web 2.0 opportunities and applications specifically. The summit will highlight experts, leaders and under-the-radar innovators. And in the spirit of Web 2.0 there will be ample time...

By Dan Morrill Since Bias is a human conditional, what is in blogs, what is in the social networking sites has to be taken with a grain of salt. Not all in those entries will be an honest determination of worthiness to the common body of knowledge. Most blogs and social networking sites contain a huge amount o...

By Alister Cameron One of the things I spend quite a bit of my time doing is helping clients and prospects understand the difference between a "regular" website and a social network. I spend a lot of my time arguing in favour of "social media", in the belief that a social media approach is at the heart of what we ca...

It seems particularly relevant to me right now as, in the past few Tools posts, I have been dealing with the importance of hierarchies in web analytics. And a hierarchy is, of course, a taxonomy of how content on a web site is related. Comments Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl

1. Arrive at work, review 50-item task list, and proceed to "add rollover preview functionality like Ebay's" to the site (I'm imitating what a business person would say). 3. Figure out the best way to complete the given task by searching on Google and seeing how others out there are doing it.

Apparently he missed my post last week, for There is no Web 3.0. The funny thing about my summation last year (Web 2.0 is Made of People!) is the web has always been that way -- and always will. At first glance, John seems to think the next web is made of machines. From the billions of documents that fo...

OK back to content. The reviews at the moment are boring so I'm going to add some images and expand them a little. I'm also going to add some reviews that I've been collecting over the last few months. The good thing about buying the domain and posting up a test website for six months is that the sea...

Shoppers should have the ability to see thumbnail pictures of the products inside the shopping cart. Editing and adding products to the shopping cart should be done automatically without reloading. Tag: Web 2.0, eCommerce Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl

· Video uploading in any format, which includes videos from digital video cameras, with a limit of 100 Mb per video. · RSS feeds · Embedding for websites and blogs YouTube, MySpace, Microsoft Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl