I recently ran across this 15 minute clip of Clay Shirky talking about what he brilliantly refers to as the cognitive surplus and how that applies to things like Wikipedia and Web 2.0. It's an absolute must-watch

The analogy might seem odd, but read the blog post and bear with me and hopefully it'll make some sense. Lately, I've been noticing that the act of maintaining one's social network online is as ugly as the "MMO Grind" that makes so many quit MMOs.

Microsoft unveiled their intent to produce an MVC framework for ASP.NET at the alt.net conference. This post contains my thoughts on the subject

Assuming you get the Wayne's World reference, read on: In this day and age of Web 2.0 and exposing software as a service, has the number of new and modern possibilities dulled our ability to create good clean C/S apps?

So far, google has released a fairly limited web-based spreadsheet, a pretty limited web-based document editor, and now they've got a pretty limited web-based presentation editor.

In this blog post I discuss some of my thoughts on Astoria and how tools like Astoria may be used to further the cause of the mythical "semantic web"

I'm not sure how it slipped past my attention, but Microsoft has another codename project in the works - Volta

Intel and several other vendors have gotten together to create a "web 2.0 enterprise appliance". Will it be worth it?

The current rage is all about community building and social software, especially using the Internet (I refuse to call it the web) as the backbone for such community building. I think devices like the Wii represent the next step in social software.

I'm so far behind the times, its not funny. Its not Web 2.0 anymore.. Its Web Candle + Monkey!

Notemesh is one of the most recent additions of software to the Web 2.0 landscape ... for better or for worse.

Saw this article on Tech Crunch and felt compelled to comment on the arrogance of the News Corp CEO

I've just finished a Whitepaper detailing my research on building the perfect tag cloud, including analysis of how to deal with high-volume data and font size distribution algorithms.

Lately I have been startled at the massive trend of "me too" social software applications that I consider to be clogging the entire social software environment with pollution.

Lately it seems as though Web2.0 sites and social software sites are popping up like weeds. The problem is, most of them aren't even as useful as a weed. Is Diigo a weed or a genuinely useful addition to the Web 2.0 community?

In this current new generation of content consumption and publication, we are constantly assaulted with the Web 2.0 buzz-phrase. This article highlights an example of an application that not only embodies the "2.0" principles, but it does them RIGHT.