From the very beginning of the mankind Web 2.0 has played a huge role.

The Patricia Dunn story goes on (see Scobleizer). To survive she should learn from the masters.

 
Dana Blankenhorn has posted about Jaron Laniers column "DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism".

I'm not an analyst but I guess it would be quite reasonable for HP to akquire Facebook. They could use it to solve their problems with leakers.

(About the leaker story see e.g. the Scobleizer, he's constantly blogging about it.
About the Facebook story see Techcrunch.)

Facebook endorses privacy and gives the users the ability to opt out of the "attention stream" (see Techcrunch).

See also the first part of The Facebook Family.

Nick Carr posted several times about the Wikipedian philosophies (see "Deletionists, inclusionists and delusionists" and "Small pieces unjoined"). Maybe it's getting more and more important which of these Wikipedian churches you belong to.

By watching the Digg discussion about aristocrats and noneternals (see Nick Carr and Techcrunch) it's good to know that even Web 2.0 is done by Mankind 1.0.

With the new Facebooks feeds users will be in between the "attention stream" (see the Techcrunch post). They will love it.

 
After Web 2.0 has become cheap enough (Huckabuck is sold on eBay and the highest bid is - 2 days before end - 8,300 $, see e.g. Rob Hofs blog post) it's a nice present for christmas.

The Long Tail is widely discussed (see e.g. Rough Type). But no one sees the real opportunity in it.

The Web 2.0 trend might lead into a dead-end (like Tom Foremski posted).
But after you've ended dead it may give you some reasonable arguments before the Latest Judgment.

(Sorry I made a mistake by naming this post "The Latest Judgment". As I know now the correct phrase is "The Last Judgment". But I don't wanna change the permalink. So I have to live with this mistake.)

There are great interviews held by Bruce Eckels with several big names in the programming world. My favourite is the one with Andrej Hejlsberg. He creates the notion of complexity covered by simplicity and calls it simplexity. This inspired me to this cartoon. (Thanks to the Java Posse who gave me the link to this interviews in their podcat #59)

(Originally posted on  6/06/2006)

As Marshall Kirkpatrick (TechCrunch) and James Yu reported has Digg forced DiggGames.com to cease using Digg in its name. DiggGames.com moved to games1.org. I wonder why no one has "1" trademarked. (Originally posted on  8/27/2006)

After SOA is available for Dummies (see Steve Hamms blog post) we're all looking forward to even more SOA-VPs, -Managers, ... and the like. I'm curious how long it will take until they will face the same destiny as the e-Business-Incubators from the end of the last millenium. (Originally posted on  8/25/2006)