Google Search Moving Web 2.0

Michael Arrington previews what purports to be a prototype of a new Google search experience, incorporating user commenting and voting such as we see on Digg and other social media sites: The video above shows a user interface being bucket tested by Google to select (probably randomly determined) users. Earlier today we showed a screen shot of the interface and a ...

Social Media Overload

Mark Glaser calls attention to one of the strange dilemmas of modern life: deciding whom to "friend" on various social media sites like Facebook and MySpace. Is the person a friend, a real friend, or someone who wants to be a friend? Should I add them as a friend because it’s polite, or ignore them because I want to protect ...

Obama, The Jewish Lobby, and the Perils of Web 2.0

One of Barack Obama's key advantages in building grassroots support, especially among young people usually not apt to vote, has been his innovative use of the latest Web techniques, including the integration of social networking technologies. Not only did he lap the field in getting "friends" on Facebook and MySpace but he actually hired the guy who invented Facebook ...

NOW! Hampshire

Patrick Hynes has launched a citizen news site called NOW! Hampshire which, as you might guess, focuses on the Granite State. Apparently, they have news there unrelated to the quadrennial first-in-the-nation presidential primaries. Who knew? The concept is very Web 2.0: Now! Hampshire operates on the premise that there is a lot more interesting news out there than the ...

Multilingual Blogging?

A few days ago, Aaron Brazell announced that his popular Web 2.0 blog, Technosailor, would start featuring regular Spanish-language posts in the niche by Carlos Granier-Phelps. I found the idea odd at first and then remarkably annoying once implemented. It's not especially hard, frankly, to skip past the odd Spanish language post in Google Reader, yet I find their presence ...

Chris Dodd’s Flawless Web Campaign

This blurb in a roundup at techPresident caught my eye: The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder picks up on something we at techPresident have long acknowledged: in addition to running a “near flawless” campaign, Chris Dodd has “used emerging technologies more fruitfully than just about everyone else.” Ambinder points to the campaign’s use of Ustream, live-blogging from the spin room, the “Talk Clock,” ...

Bodybuilder Performs Smackdown on Serial Bank Robber [-y suspect]

In a suburb north of Seattle, a serial bank robber (I won’t say robbery suspect, though the newspaper does) had the misfortune of having an amateur competitive bodybuilder in the chosen bank who decided to be a good member of society and stop the robbery, whereas most would just be sheep and look for cover. It all happened in Lynnwood ...

Content King Online, Not Search or Commerce

A new survey finds that, "over the past four years, the primary role of the Internet has shifted from communications to content." Pam Horan, president of survey sponsor Online Publishers Association, says, "[The Internet now handles] traditionally offline activities, such as getting news, finding entertainment information or checking the weather." It's strange to me that content wouldn't have always ...

Old Media Embraces Web 2.0

Josh Catone takes a look at three newspaper sites that have embraced Web 2.0 technologies in recent redesigns, adding video, tagging, comments sections, and other features long common on blogs. via Steve Rubel

Online Social Networkers ‘Chronically Unfaithful’

A new report on "Web 2.0 and the New Net" finds that "social networkers have little loyalty for any specific social networking site. Almost half of all social networkers use more than one site and one in six uses three or more." BizReport's Helen Leggatt adds, Forty percent of MySpace users maintain a profile on other social networking sites such ...