I have to use air quotes whenever I mention “web 2.0” for fear that if I forget them, someone will call me out to explain what “web 2.0” actually means. There’s no real in-depth entry here, just a few things that made me do a double-take as of late:
Weblog Search, Who Will Do It The Right Way?
It seems like everyone and their brother has a weblog search engine nowadays, but I don’t see true innovation springing forth like I thought I would. Look at the giant innovative step that del.icio.us took in the realm of bookmarking — it used to be something you’d do on your own, on your own computer, but del.icio.us dropped killer features like RSS and tagging into the mix and they innovated their way around a stagnant technology. Now I can’t walk ten feet without stumbling into someone who uses del.icio.us every single day. That’s the type of innovation I’m looking for, and the current breed of weblog search engines just doesn’t cut it for me.
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We Are Sorry, Here Is A Joke
It all started with this entry:
Since our company/service/network is getting links from everywhere nowadays, I wanted to quickly clear up some confusion regarding the name of what it is we’re doing.
The company is “9rules, Inc.” and the network is “The 9rules Network” or just “9rules.”
These capital R’s dropped everywhere are making our CEO cry in public, and believe me, that’s not pretty. Lowercase r’s are where it’s at. Uppercase is for suckers 🙂
$1B Stolen From Iraq’s Defense Ministry
We don’t normally post political things here, but I wanted to make sure that more eyes saw this article because it’s so very important: What happened to Iraq’s missing $1bn?