Web 2.0 names are hard!

 Posted by (Visited 11026 times)  Misc
Apr 172007
 

Here I am walking around the show floor at Web 2.0 Expo, and I guess every possible combination of e, i, you, me, my, ster, and so on must have been taken. I have no idea what these companies all do, but check out these names: Yugma, Yoono, Zoho, Denodo, Venyo, Nexo, Astreya, Dekoh, Egnyte.

I guess ending in o is the new ending-in-r-without-preceding-vowel.

BTW, I give a lecture here tomorrow, all by my lonesome since Ben Cerveny got sick, plus I am on a panel. So I have to go finish my slides now.

ProtoSphere

 Posted by (Visited 9827 times)  Game talk
Apr 162007
 

Via Tom Crawford comes a detailed look at ProtoSphere, a virtual world aimed at companies and educational institutions. A quick peruse of their website shows that they’ve specifically created it to run as an all-in-one solution, with social networking, simulation capabilities, VOIP, ability to integrate course modules, blogs, wikis, and so on. It looks rather robust.

The Sunday Poem: Flicker

 Posted by (Visited 7178 times)  The Sunday Poem
Apr 152007
 

It’s hard to understand, these days, how prized writing once was. Everywhere we turn there is verbal diarrhea, an endless stream of twittering: there’s blog diaries and fan fiction and political ideologues, there’s spin and truthiness and position papers, there’s stories that perhaps don’t deserve to be told. We live in a world that is abundant in writing, abundant in books, with little sense of how once each carefully formed letter was a bulwark against the collapse of civilization.

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