If I say «Web 2.0», probably most of you will think to social networks as Facebook, Myspace, or LinkedIn, social bookmarking services as Digg or Del.icio.us, wiki as Wikipedia and blogging platforms as Blogger or Splinder, digital asset sharing services as YouTube or Flickr, and so forth...

Two stories I read yesterday morning are worth sharing. The first, an editorial by science-fiction writer Robert Silverberg, was entitled The Death of Gallium, a meditation on the increasing scarcity of valuable elements like gallium, used in flat panel TVs and computer displays, which is estimated ...

I was inspired by Fred Wilson's excellent piece on the subject to add my own two cents to Mike Arrington's rant about how Yahoo!'s deal with Google is bad for the industry. I wrote the following in Arrington's comment stream, and will reproduce it here: Let me weigh in as well on why I don't think G...

Checking the Amazon bestseller list recently, I was delighted to see Toby Segaran's Programming Collective Intelligence back among the top ten computer books on Amazon's Computer and Internet bestseller list. The book made it as high as #2 or #3 when it was published last year, but it's great to see...

I had a little chat with our old friend and fellow ReveNews.com blogger Shmuly Tennenhaus a few days ago. He is busy up in Seattle for a company who developed an interesting platform. I have some experience with this type of model of a company. My former employer for over 7 years uses the same busin...

A 16 years old boy from a regular Melbourne, Australia neighborhood plays "Risky Business" by throwing a party and invites virtually everybody in town while his parents are out of town. 500 people show up, the party gets out of hand, cops came, some brief riots occurred, causing a few thousand dolla...