Dion Hinchcliffe

It’s the final day of the three day long Web 2.0 Summit , the leading confab for the Web 2.0 era.  It’s been a bustling and busy three days in San Francisco with sessions and discussions on a wide variety of Web 2.0 topics, from Advertising 2.0 and Net Neutrality, to the World of Warcraft and Enterprise […]

The next Web 2.0 Conference will be upon us in early November and things are busier than ever in the Web 2.0 world.  Along the way, I’ve managed to miss the one year anniversary of this blog, which I began back in late September of last year.  There have been over 2.5 million direct hits on this

The blogosphere flew into its usual uproar a few days ago when the inventor of the World Wide Web himself, the venerated Tim Berners-Lee, was recently recorded in a podcast calling Web 2.0 nothing more than a piece of jargon.  There is little love and plenty of misunderstanding for this term in many quarters of the industry, despite the fact it

I’m here in Sebastopol, California for O’Reilly’s yearly FOO Camp and consequently I’m in the mood for thinking beyond the signature topic of this blog and towards where things are headed next.  As a good example of this, my colleague Jeremy Geelan has been closely following the possibilities here as well and has been investigating the ultimate ramifications of

Well, it seems to be finally happening.  The Web 2.0 sites are starting to bubble up  — no pun intended — to the very top of the traffic charts, with MySpace and then YouTube eclipsing each other in weeks.  The Guardian reported yesterday that YouTube is now commanding 3.9% of all Internet traffic, making it the #1

YouTube has been getting a lot of press lately, both for its runaway success as well as for the real sources of its vast video library.  Rated as a top 20 destination on the Web, YouTube serves up at least a whopping 70 million videos a day to its users and also has over 60,000 new videos uploaded every 24

Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine, has been discussing a concept he calls The Long Tail for quite some time now.  Many of you have no doubt been reading his excellent blog on the subject, and now finally his long-awaited book about this key Web 2.0 business model has been published.  The actual launch day was just over a week ago (some

A lot of the early descriptions of and speculation around Web 2.0 last year were either chock full of examples or long lists of interesting new phenomena that seemed to be emerging on the Web.  My list of Web 2.0 explanations last year is a good survey of these.  This year however we seem to be zeroing in on

I’ve written several times in the past (most particularly here) about online storage and its importance to the next generation of the Web.  The developments in this space over the last year have been fascinating indeed.  For true Web 2.0 software (which I’ll define here simply as networked applications that explicitly leverage network effects) or plain

It’s been quite a week of discussion on Web 2.0 and its applicability to the enterprise.  John Hagel did quite a write-up at the beginning of the week that was subsequently picked up by quite a number of folks  (Nick Carr, Joe McKendrick, Dave Orchard, and Jason Kolb) including myself.  Some of these cited one of my original articles that tied