Andrew Keen has gone insane. The author, who has railed against the Internet for destroying our culture, now says we all must become self-promoting, Facebook-friending, constantly Twittering monkeys like unemployed videoblogger Robert Scoble. "We are all Scoble now," Keen writes. Who? Scoble, a tech...

Was muss ich denn da auf den Seiten vom Handelsblatt lesen? Web 2.0 macht dumm!? Ist das ein Scherz? Anscheinend nicht. In dem Artikel von Werner Pluta wird der literarischen Erguss von Andrew Keen mit seiner sehr persönlichen Ansicht über die Wirkung von Social Media auf die Volksseele vorgestell...

Barack Obama ist Präsident – of YouTube. Und deshalb gleich auch bald Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten? >>alleyinsider.com >>off-the-record.de Mit Google in Zukunft Bücher auf meinem Bildschirm lesen? Dann doch lieber einen Kindle von amazon – da hat man wenigstens was in der...

“Loser Generated Content� – Jean-Remy von Matt (Jung von Matt) äußerte dieses Stichwort während einer Marketingkonferenz. Doch wen oder was meint er damit? In erster Linie Blogger, Twitterer, Podcaster, Videoblogger, Social Networks User etc., einfach alle, die im Internet frei ihre Meinung...

Cube-dwelling funny pages favorite "Dilbert" from Scott Adams has a redesigned website, sporting the now-ubiquitous "beta" label, offering widgets and buying into the user-generated content fad — you can now create "mashups" and work out your own corporate-minion frustrations within the confin...

eMarketer predicts the number of people who create so-called "user-generated" content will rise from 77 million in 2007 to 108 million in 2012. More baffling yet, the ranks of people who consume this content will only rise from 94 million in 2007 to 130 million by 2012. Why don't we just junk our co...

YouTube cofounder Steve Chen worries about graphic rape clips on YouTube. But not enough to do something about it, because he thinks it is important for uploaded videos to be available for immediate viewing. Also, given that 10 hours of content is uploaded every minute, it would be impossible to scr...

We asked which man most deserves Pownce founder Leah Culver's attentions: Googler Andy Smith or Flickr's Cal Henderson? In a late rally, Smith advocates won out. His 48.4 percent of the vote displaced the early leader, none-of-the-above option "cupcakes to face for both," at 43.5 percent. Now a pair...

Almost every digital camera captures both pictures and movies. This reality has seemed lost on Flickr for four years. Cofounder Stewart Butterfield reportedly told attendees at a fourth-birthday party last night that Flickr, now owned by Yahoo, will introduce video uploads next month. At this point,...

People who talk about 'building community' should go be architects. Because people are not bricks.-- Pixish cofounder Derek Powazek, on the art of cajoling users to contribute content, "The Weird Turn Pro: Crowdsourcing for Creatives," SXSW Interactive 2008...