Dion Hinchcliffe

I am fortunate enough to spend a lot of time looking at various online products and services in the development stage, mostly of the Web 2.0 variety, meaning they use one or more of the principles in the Web 2.0 set of practices.  It’s been going on 4 years now and what’s fascinating to me, despite […]

Two of the big themes clearly evident at this week’s Web 2.0 Summit is 1) how to effect change successfully today and 2) how to deliver genuine, meaningful value in today’s marketplace.  The current economic climate combined with this week’s seminal change in the current political administration has begun positioning organizations to think about how to not

Over the last year I’ve worked with organizations around the world that are attempting to grapple with Web 2.0 and the growing external marketplace pressure being exerted for the change and transformation of their businesses. Along the way, I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to identify and assemble a working list of some consistent

The Web has an interesting property that those building Web applications and online businesses usually encounter soon after they first launch: It has its own unique and unforgiving rules for success and failure.  Appreciating them requires a certain level of understanding of the intrinsic nature of the Web and how it works.  Actually leveraging those

While it’s no longer quite so fashionable to label your Internet startup a “Web 2.0” company these days, the popularity of the term remains extraordinarily high and is presently used today both far and wide in traditional media and social media.  The Google Trends graph in the figure to the right tells the overall story;

A few days ago Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr released a graph (Figure 1 below) showing the growth of the bandwidth used by their global Web sites versus the bandwidth being consumed by their Web services.  It’s eye opening because of the dramatic growth in bandwidth being consumed by their customers via their various non-visual, data-only Web services. The

It wasn’t long ago that to be a credible participant in social media one only had to have a decent blog and keep it updated fairly regularly.  The rise of social media was an astonishing and novel enough development that most people still don’t blog today, despite the enormous influence that blogging and other forms of social

I’ve been spending a good amount of time the last several weeks getting ready for the workshop session I’ll be giving at Web 2.0 Expo next week in San Francisco on building next-generation Web 2.0 applications.  What does “next generation” mean compared to what we were doing a couple of years ago with Web 2.0? A good number of

One of the hottest topics in the online world in the last couple of years has been the growth of social networking services such as Facebook and MySpace, as well as the addition of a social element to existing user experiences.  Despite riding several waves of hype, it’s now clear that the social networking space will only get hotter