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Web Trends Map

very cool!

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Everything Web 2.0 Directory

Some good web2 directories: Everything Web 2.0 Directory and go2web2.0
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Web 2.0--the folly of amateurs? | Andrew Keen's new book

Andrew Keen is a sharp guy, and I have not read the whole book yet, but I don't think I will agree with him on this stuff, at all... but see what CNet says about his book, below. Web 2.0--the folly of amateurs? | Perspectives | CNET News.com. "In a deliciously subversive new book, The Cult of the Amateur, which debuts in June, Keen recounts the many ways in which technology is remaking our culture and society. Anyone familiar with Keen's previous work from his blog will recognize the terrain here. Keen is a gloomy elitist--in the best sense of that term--wistful about a politer, more thoughtful era, but one that's destined to get trampled underneath by the amoral onslaught of the Internet. Keen may cost himself a few dinner party invitations. Then again, he's not interested in currying favor with bloggers or would-be new media moguls. In fact, I assume he would just as soon welcome their scorn for his book as a searing indictment, a latter day "J'accuse" lamenting the harm he believes they have inflicted upon society...."

Cool map of online communities

Link: xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe.

Web 2.0 Sites Account for 12 Percent of U.S. Web Traffic (but what IS Web.2.0?)

Interesting stats, below. But what really IS web2.0?  Here is my definition: it's just a tag or a name for what the Web should really be, as opposed to what we wanted it to be, back in the early days.  Web1.0 - if you want to use that term - was based on pretty much the same ideas (collaboration, rating, community, sharing, tagging, filtering) but it just wasn't quite there yet - in other words, it was mostly alpha and gamma versions of 'the real thing' - and that is what we are seeing now -- the real thing is finally there, and we are finally getting a glimpse of the real power of the net. Real sharing, real collaboration, real interaction -it just took 7 years longer. Ah yes, and then... watch this video to find out more
Web 2.0 Sites Account for 12 Percent of U.S. Web Traffic.

"Web surfers in the United States are increasingly visiting Web 2.0 Web sites like Wikipedia, MySpace (NWS-A) and YouTube (GOOG), according to HitWise research..."

Tim O'Reilly: Web 2.0 Is About Controlling Data -

Tim knows his stuff. This is a good read.
Tim O'Reilly: Web 2.0 Is About Controlling Data -.

Great video on web2.0: a pic is worth a 1000 words ;)

A must watch: