Web2.0

Last week was quite interesting, I happened to show up at Google IO developer Conference 2009. Committing to writing about the entire Google IO event in a single post is a tough job, so friends here is a succinct post covering the topics that seems most exciting to me.

1. Google wave:

As many may have read already, Google announced a new Internet-based communications and collaboration platform Google Wave in the second day's key note talk at Google IO. Google Wave seems to be an integrated communications platform that brings together email, chat, twitter, social networks, photo-sharing, and collaborative editing features. Google describes a 'wave' as "equal parts conversation and document" and the Wave team basically sees it as a replacement for email and other collaboration tools. Google's announcement of wave was the most exiting technical demonstration I ever been to, it was full of cheers, applause and whistling, evidence of the excitement about this new product which could revolutionize the world of emails, instant messaging, photo sharing, blogging, social networking and intranet communications.

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Our very own Henry Poole was quoted in a PC World article on Barack Obama's web security:

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Recently I've been looking into new web2.0 and, I guess web3.0, and social media trends - sites and services that are popping up like mushrooms after a rain. I've found many interesting one and wanted to share a few, and at the same time ask that if you know of anything really cool that you think I might not know about, please send it my way, either by email/contact form or tag them on del.icio.us for:gregoryheller

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Techipedia has collected the some of the best posts on Web for Internet Marketing in 2007 and it's a mighty read. If you have any interest in social media, prepare to dive deep into this massive well of knowledge - with over 250 links...

High praise to Tamar for all the hard work put into this collection! We are grateful and will be reading far into 2008.

The rumor is that Google is planning to fight Facebook on the "social networking" front... If the story is true, Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data and will be an attempt to connect the currently closed communities of Tribe.net, Bebo, Friendster, Twitter, Digg, LinkedIn and more...

When I learned to ski, it was difficult to 'get' that when I wanted to slow down...I needed to lean down the hill. That was just plain scary. In the early days of the net, it was similarly difficult to learn that to build bigger networks meant that I had to let go of more control. As a business person, I've had years of conditioning that 'control' was the biggest key to success. Perhaps it's the nature of the network protocol itself that rewards openness.

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No longer are corporations or congressmen anonymous when white-washing their wikipedia pages. Now with WikiScanner by Virgil, IP addresses are the public's smoking-gun and are creating public relations disasters, one company at a time.

Who's Working Where in '08? Now you know! The techPresident StaffWiki is an open, editable guide to web staffers working on the 2008 presidential campaigns.

I just discovered this beautiful directory of websites for organizations and causes involved in online advocacy. 744 websites making a difference in the world (and growing)!

I just ran across this on 25 Code Snippets for Web Designers - Round up 25 of the Best CSS, scripts, html, javascript, Ajax and widgets that you can use on on your website or blog.