Clipmarks | ericw's 'web 2.0' clips

Fonts so good.... it hurts!

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:39:28 GMT

clipped by: jhando
clipper's remarks: As the person who dug this site in digg said, this site is so darn good it hurts! Get free fonts via a beautiful web 2.0 interface. Easy to navigate and so far they all work well on my MacBook Pro - I'm a happy camper.

Clip Source: neatfonts.com

Tags: fonts

Obama-licious - Barack's campaign and Web 2.0

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:41:54 GMT

clipped by: ericw
clipper's remarks: BarackObama.com embraces web 2.0 ...

Clip Source: www.barackobama.com

Tags: barack obama, obabma, web 2.0, politics, obamalicious, facebook, youtube, flickr, campaign, 2008

The mathematics of Web 2.0

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:46:39 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: I don't know if I understood all this.

Clip Source: opengardensblog.futuretext.com

The mathematics of Web 2.0: Why don’t ALL social networking sites experience phenomenal growth?

When I spoke at Santa Clara/ Stanford last week, I had the pleasure of meeting Dr John Yu – a serial entrepreneur and VC in the valley. The original inspiration for this post came from John.

This is an ambitious post but I also acknowledge that I need some help especially in getting some numbers / stats.

The key observation is : Social networking sites like MySpace and YouTube are growing at rates faster than the growth of the Internet itself – but not ALL social networking sites are showing very high rates of growth.

How can we explain that?

In this post, we consider three things

a) The growth rate of the Internet
b) The growth rate of the top web 2.0 sites
c) The reasons why not all social networking sites show the same effect

Let us first consider the Internet

The growth rate of the Internet is governed by Metcalfe’s law (also called as the network effect ) which states that the utility/value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users in the network. Mathematically, it is a 2nd order polynomial.

According to the principles of permutations and combinations : if you have ‘n’ different objects and ‘r’ members amongst these are to be arranged – then the number of permutations is given as

where n is the number of different objects and r of them are to be arranged.

If n = 4 then n! = 4 * 3 * 2 * 1

Suppose we have (hypothetically) 10 members then we have
10 * 9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 3628800 combinations (i.e. with no combinations)

Now suppose we start ‘combining’ these members into groups of three (r = 3)
(By 'combining' I mean subgroups of members who cant interact easily beyond their own subgroup - membership level - 'links' etc)

We get
= 10! / (10 – 3)! = 720

Thus, I would then argue that they don’t even see the network effect(the rate of which is lower than the exponential growth of Web 2.0 sites).

Tags: web 2.0, mathematics, social networking

Now Playing: Clipmarks on YouTube.....

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:26:11 GMT

clipped by: ericw

Clip Source: youtube.com

Clipmarks
01:27

Social Media Platform

Tags:

Web 2.0

Added: 1 day ago in Category: Science & Technology
From: thathoo
Views: 6

Tags: clipmarks, youtube, video, technology, web

Cool Flickr Visualization App

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:08:17 GMT

clipped by: ericw
clipper's remarks: Awesome Flash visualization app that pulls flickr images in real time by tag. Wish I had more to clip, but it's all flash. Click the link above to play around

Clip Source: www.airtightinteractive.com

Flickr Related Tag Browser

Tags: flash, flickr, airtight interactive, web, cool, application, photo, web 2.0, development

Ajax Loader Gif Generator

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:58:17 GMT

clipped by: baricrazi

Clip Source: www.ajaxload.info

Ajaxload

(Beta) <- Hey ! This service is Web 2.0

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Your personalized start page

Preview

Press "Generate it"

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Tags: ajax, web 2.0, gif, loader

Om Malik to take gigaom.com to the next level

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:47:04 GMT

clipped by: ericw
clipper's remarks: Resigns from Senior Writer spot at Business 2.0, gets funding for gigaom.com....

Clip Source: www.valleywag.com

Keep inflating the media-bubble-about-the-tech-bubble: blogger Om Malik took funding for his tech site, GigaOM. The news comes from a leaked internal memo from Business 2.0 editor Josh Quittner. Quittner says Om is dropping from senior writer to "contributing editor," but he'll still write a monthly column while he builds a Business 2.0 competitor. Here's the announcement:

To: The staff

As many of you already know, Om Malik, after three years of writing about startups, Web 2.0, the GoogleNet and everything else, has decided to eat his own dog food. He's accepted seed funding to turn his mega-popular blog, gigaom.com, into a real business.

When Om told me about his plan to start a company, I reacted predictably: I burst into tears, fell to the floor, clutched his ankles, and begged him not to go. This had nothing to do with Om having introduced me to the superior grilled lamb chops at Pakwan. I really like the dude.

Luckily, I was able to make him an offer he couldn't refuse: Om will be staying on as a contributing editor, writing a monthly column for Business 2.0 that will start in September.

Watch this space for details of an upcoming pour celebrating Om's, and our, good fortune.

Tags: om malik, gigaom, gigaom.com, business 2.0, tech news, technology, blogger, blog

BBC to go "Web 2.0"

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:51:18 GMT

clipped by: ericw

Clip Source: news.ft.com

The BBC, already the UK’s biggest online brand, on Tuesday signalled its determination to join the fast-growing web world of blogs, open access and online communities.

The public broadcaster said it would relaunch its website to feature greater personalisation and more user-generated content as it laid out its strategy to adapt to the so-called “web 2.0 world”, where users increasingly create their own online communities.

Following the success of rock groups including Arctic Monkeys through MySpace.com, the community internet site, the BBC also set itself the goal of becoming “the premier destination for unsigned bands” through broadband, podcasting and mobile phone services.

The changes reflect the rapid growth in internet sites dedicated to building up communities and that allow the exchange of information and content.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation was among the first big media companies to invest in such social networking sites, spending $580m (£324m) last year on MySpace, the biggest of the sites with about 70m users.

Tags: web 2.0, bbc, news, online community, blog

Coastr - Web 2.0 Beer Lovers Site...

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:54:09 GMT

clipped by: ericw
clipper's remarks: Looks like Guiness is currently in the lead ....

Clip Source: coastr.com

Tags: coastr, social software, social networking, web 2.0, beer

Web 2.0 Logo Wallpaper

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 06:04:44 GMT

clipped by: ericw
clipper's remarks: Can you find Clipmarks?

Clip Source: static.flickr.com

Tags: clipmarks, web 2.0, logo, wallpaper

Web 2.0 Design Tips ... Clipmarks gets mentioned

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:20:29 GMT

clipped by: ericw

Clip Source: www.vipedio.com

Major MUST-DO’s:

Rounded Shapes
Shades
ARIAL
Pastell v2.0
Footers
Buttons
Font-Size: Oversized
Descriptive HTML (XML style)

Major DO NOT’s:

Java Applets (Script is fine though)
Animated GIFs (the blinky ones)
100% Flash Websites
Visible tables

Buttons

Within the major trend of moving from a home-computer application interface to a hosted worldwide web based application design, also lies the origin of recent sightings of button-like navigational elements. No, I am not talking about those -go to hell- Java applet buttons. Brrr, freezing. I am talking about “image buttons”. Either rounded or stricly rectangle shaped. And mostly quite large ones as well. The number one usage of these buttons is the must-have: DOWNLOAD button. When used in site navigation, the buttons appear to be a bit smaller. And don’t forget to use Arial for captioning, I told you.
Proof-of-concept:

Tags: web 2.0, design, web, internet, clipmarks, buttons

YouLookFamiliar - Social Networking site for the family

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:31:00 GMT

clipped by: ericw

Clip Source: www.youlookfamiliar.com

Tags: web 2.0, youlookfamiliar.com, you look familiar, social networking

Favorville - web 2.0 site for trading favors

Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:25:25 GMT

clipped by: ericw

Clip Source: www.favorville.com

Tags: web 2.0, favorville, people helping people, favor

Gritwire - Flash-based RSS Reader

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:40:13 GMT

clipped by: ericw

Clip Source: www.techcrunch.com

There are, however, a number of additional features, including a podcast player, alerts (I can’t seem to make this work) and a “wiki” feature. The wiki is a basic text box that can be edited by you and, I assume, your friends. It’s a nice collaboration tool (I want something like this wiki on my desktop for easy group working).

Tags: gritwire, flash, rss, web 2.0

Web 3.0 ... API Driven Web Applications

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:20:33 GMT

clipped by: ericw

Clip Source: blogs.zdnet.com

WebSideStory Bid, introduced in August this year, is a perfect example of an API-driven composite application. Targeted at organizations that spend large amounts of money on pay-per-click keyword advertising — in the $10k to $50k per month range — it provides a single console for monitoring the performance of keyword ads and managing bid amounts and placements. It is capable of doing this across multiple properties, including Google, LookSmart, FindWhat and Kanoodle, and it uses AJAX technology to deliver the results in real-time. The data from those properties, of course, is coming in via their API feeds, and similarly the adjustments to bids and bookings goes back via the same route.

Here we have, then, an application that is built to work with a specific set of API feeds. It has no functional use without them. Its value comes from the productive functionality it adds on top of them, enabling the user to co-ordinate keyword-targeted advertising in real-time far more effectively than they ever could using the API providers’ own rather rudimentary application interfaces. Indeed, it will always offer more, because it combines API feeds from several different providers, allowing the user to compare how each is performing. To my mind, this exemplifies the use of a composite application to combine and add value to multiple raw feeds.

Tags: web 3.0, web 2.0, enterprise 3.0 application, api, feeds