Het is Web 2.0 wat de klok slaat. Vele auteurs overtuigen ons ervan dat je als organisatie niet meer meetelt als je ‘the social web’ niet optimaal weet in te zetten. Zelf doe ik er net zo hard aan mee met artikelen en trainingen over Web 2.0. Ik realiseer me echter steeds meer dat we [.....

Since the emergence of Web 2.0 in 2005, there was a debate on the definition of Web 2.0. There are various definition, on O'Reilly, Techcrunch, and also on Wikipedia. But I have a different definition. I think it's all about time gaps. Web 1.0 was pre-bubble. From the emergence of the Web in 1994/5 ...

[UPDATE below.] Yesterday, the one-man-band of a tech blogger, Michael Arrington, let loose with yet another outrageously indignant diatribe–this time that he and his TechCrunch site would forthwith break all news embargoes. Not content with the traffic generated last week by his obviously fak...

I have recently been accepted as an editor, for a small category, in the Open Directory Project, a project which was/is important but has become increasingly obscure. The project was established in 1998 listing and categorising websites in a taxonomy, whilst making data relatively freely available. ...

Iedere docent is eigenlijk altijd op zoek naar goede leerinhouden voor zijn of haar lessen. Schoolmethoden bieden hen daarbij een stevige houvast. Internet anno 2008, vult deze schoolmethoden, nog eens aan met enorme hoeveelheden content. Maar hoe weet je nu of deze content wel geschikt is voor jou ...

We all heard of the infamous disastrous interview between Sarah Lacy and Mark Zuckerburg (CEO, Facebook) in the SXSW conference 2008. Of course, the reason why she was selected for interviewing Mark Zuckerberg was based on her upcoming book, "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good" which has...

I was inspired to provide a machine-to-human translation of Yahoo's memo detailing its attempt to save itself. This post originally appeared on the pages of Silicon Alley Insider. YAHOO REORG MEMO TRANSLATED INTO PLAIN ENGLISH SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a l...

In a move BoomTown is still trying to noodle over, longtime Facebook exec Matt Cohler (pictured here) will be leaving the social networking site to become a general partner at Benchmark Capital. Cohler, who is currently Facebook’s VP of Product Management, was one of its earliest hires and, as...

Several major investors in Yahoo–who have been, how shall BoomTown put this delicately, freaked out by the sudden departure of Microsoft from the deal two weeks ago–have blamed the passive-aggressive style of Yahoo, and especially Yahoo CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang, on the collapse of t...

Il devient assez évident, même pour les éternels optimistes, que nous nous dirigeons vers une récession provoquée par l’incapacité des États-Unis à freiner l’endettement ridicule de ses citoyens et à stimuler l’épargne. On pourrait dire la même chose au Canada, mais on p...