For those who love facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and all those other crazy web 2.0 websites – I like them, but I admit I have my reservations — you must take a look at this hilarious look at the meaning behind all this web 2.0 craze lately. Kudos to Seth Godin for posting his find and sharing an amusing look at the psychology of “sharing”!
Monthly Archive for May, 2007
My friend Sahrah emailed me a link to goodreads (yet another web 2.0) website. After the huge impact of facebook on the world around me, not to mention all those other major web 2.0 websites, goodreads almost seems like yet another site jumping on the bandwagon. There are its pros and cons as usual, but I wonder if this site will really help the book industry? It almost seems like an extended version of Amazon’s ratings and reviews with a little web 2.0 sharing slapped on to it. The reviews are short and sweet which is great but they are listed over page after page and it begins to be overwhelming or rather the effect of those individual reviews are diluted. Each review no longer carries as much weight to help the book because there are just so many on one page.
Check it out for yourself
The positive thing about goodreads (at least from my standpoint for today) is that I ran across a fantastic cover of one of my favourite books, Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. This was the Centennial Edition. I am almost almost encouraged to buy it. So close to clicking on the buy button, but why stop? What stops me?
I already have a great hardcover edition with illustrations from Readers Digest. Otherwise, I’d love to pick this one up. Great illustration and use of colours here. Not so sure about the typeface for the title, but it’s decent.
Thanks to Stan Schroeder of frantic industries, I received an invite to Joost. What is Joost? Think television over the Internet. Over the next week, I should have a review posted.
In the meantime, if you are interested in receiving an invite to check out Joost. Just post a comment with your first and last name with your email address, and I will send one out to you. But do share accordingly as well. Stan noted that every Joost beta tester gets 999 invites. Hurray!
You know this is has huge implications on rights issues and web 2.0 sites when Forbes and the Globe and Mail here and here by Matthew Ingram (as well as numerous other news reporting sites) reports about Digg.com giving into the demands of users.
In all honesty though if you go on to Digg.com, users have been stating that they flooded Digg with the HD-DVD code because the administration at Digg.com had been censoring even people who made comments about the issue. Is that the truth? I don’t know, but it is a very interesting issue that has arisen in the web 2.0 era. User empowerment and proprietary censorship.
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Next couple of weeks will be busy, but I’ll be posting some summer news!
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