Category Archives: Web 2.0

eBayMatchUps: Meg Whitman vs. Fruit Helmet Cat

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Smart people inside eBay have been looking at ways to drive more traffic to the site and figure out what’s on the minds of people in their community. One of the cool ideas must have been to do eBayMatchUps. Apparently, … Continue reading →

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Spam Comes to Ning

Posted on September 27, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

I got my first spam “friend” request on Ning. It was a standard affiliate scheme. The Ning app is populated with a ton of content. The programmability of a social infrastructure platform is a mixed blessing as it lowers the cost of doing … Continue reading →

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Jeff Bezos on Amazon Web Services (Mechanical Turk, S3 and EC2)

Posted on September 27, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

I’m at the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference today. Jeff Bezos was the first keynote speaker. His talk focused on Amazon Web Services (AWS), in particular, Mechanical Turk, S3 and EC2. Jeff didn’t talk about the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), which is … Continue reading →

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E-Commerce 2.0

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

The “2.0” in the name is, of course, a play on the 2.0 naming craze of the day but the subject of the article I wrote for Web 2.0 Journal is real (see “E-Commerce 2.0” – The Velvet Revolution). I … Continue reading →

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Flash Apollo Demo

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Well, it’s funny I wrote about Web vs. Desktop apps earlier today because a Flex Evangelist from Adobe (Ted Patrick) just demoed a cool Apollo app. Apollo is the result of integrating a number of threads of work that have … Continue reading →

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Digg Labs

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

My econometics professor once told us “look hard enough and the data will eventually speak to you”. I guess this is what the guys at Digg are doing right now. Kevin Rose did a neat demo of Digg Labs. I … Continue reading →

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Future of Web Apps & Thank God For Desktop Apps

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Here I am hanging at the Palace of Arts Theater in SF at the Carson Workshops summit on the future of of web applications. The audience is filled with geeks and there are over a dozen 802.11g WAPs around yet … Continue reading →

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Not Web 2.0, Bubble 2.0

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Just like in the Bubble 1.0 days, the mainstream press is starting to question some of what’s happening online these days. If I recall correctly, how it proceeds from here is as follows: more questions combined with more interest, exuberance, irrational … Continue reading →

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Geotagging is a feature

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Flickr’s native geotagging integration has re-kindled the debate on whether one can create sticky community sites around geotagging. That’s the wrong question to ask. Geotagging is a feature. It hasn’t been hard to do technically for quite a while. Just … Continue reading →

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EDU 2.0: The naming craze continues

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Simeon Simeonov

Graham Glass (founder of The Mind Electric, which built Glue and sold to webMethods) has released the beta of his open education platform. The early beta of EDU 2.0 is now officially live. You can access the site at http://www.edu20.org. … Continue reading →

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