web 2.0

While Facebook shares seem as volatile as anything, one is left questioning how valuable social networking really is. As the poet and philosopher George Santayana once said, "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." I think its time that we take a good look back at ...

As any successful company will tell you, building a good reputation is not an easy process and it usually takes years of hard work to get it done. With the explosion of Web 2.0 in the last couple of years, many companies are focusing on social media experts (brand ambassadors) ...

Crowdsourcing is the new black. Everyone's doing it. Iceland is crowdsourcing its new constitution. Microsoft is crowdsourcing aspects of Windows 8. All this hype must mean it's a new thing right? Surely it has to be a product of the web 2.0 or social media era?This is a popular view. ...

In the online world, the URL is ever-present. It is the digital home of businesses large and small, the currency of social exchange, the thread on which the hyperlinked web exists. There can be few more important building blocks to the internet as we know it, but all too often ...

South African consumers, following the lead of Europe and North America, have recently discovered the international retail trend called “group buying”. Over the past year, ambitious entrepreneurs and even established media brands have launched websites offering daily deals that are only triggered once a minimum number of people express ...

Twitter is finally beginning to grow into its advertising-based revenue model in the long, convoluted journey to monetisation. The company launched "Promoted Tweets" back in April and they've slowly started percolating through the Twitter ecosystem. Finally it seems that the paid-for tweets model is maturing into a healthy and robust ...

"Queen of the Net" and acclaimed web analyst Mary Meeker delivered one of her landmark presentations on worldwide internet trends at a recent Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. When Meeker speaks, people listen. They listen very carefully. Meeker has become famous for her incisive presentations on the state of ...

Got this interesting graph from Gartner, which puts it all in perspective. (Via Techcrunch).

Here is a bit of a reality check on the web 2.0 frenzy. I've always thought the hype around web 2.0 reminded me a bit of the hype around the early dot.com days -- which I, by the way, was very much a part of. It's the reason why I ...

Here's a scoop for ya.I've just been alerted to what looks like a new and pretty serious "Web 2.0" entrant in the South African web market. www.employmint.co.za, the site owner claims, is a web 2.0 recruitment site "packed full of all the Web 2.0 goodness you can think of including ...