With the Internet-crushing hoopla surrounding the release of Apple’s widely anticipated iPad, not much attention has been paid to the exciting additions Apple has made to the iPhone OS to support it. Here we’ll explore some of these changes and discuss what they mean to publishers and application developers alike.
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We recently launched Michael Moore’s new online community at MichaelMoore.com - just in time for the opening of his new film - “Capitalism: A Love Story.”
The website is designed from the ground up with a social media focus, integrating Facebook, Twitter and a number of other Web 2.0 technologies. The audience is quite large - the site is in the top 10,000 websites in the United States by traffic and receives millions of hits. The social media footprint is also sizable - 313,289 Twitter followers, 131,253 Facebook Fans and numerous integration points with distributed social networks.
The term “Web 2.0″ returns nearly 100 million search results on Google. But what is it really? Can you look at something and say definitively that it is Web 2.0? And does it matter? In this post we explore these questions in some detail - but to properly frame the discussion, we must start with a related question. What was Web 1.0?
Google Wave was born out of the notion that while email and instant messaging work well, they were both created a long time ago. As the lead developer puts it - “Wave is what email would look like if it were invented today.” Indeed it is.
Nearly everyone uses email and instant messaging on the web these days, but imagine if you could tie those together with a wiki - and then add real-time playback functionality, on-the-fly language translation and drag-and-drop file sharing. Google Wave does all this and a lot more.
Facebook recently announced that they have now surpassed 200 million users. To put this into perspective: If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s fifth largest by population - larger than Brazil or Russia. Compare this to MySpace, which has plateaued at about 130 million users - a bit larger than the population of Japan.
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