April, 2009

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The Power of Less

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Not so sure whether the web 2.0 expo title was so powerful. I’ve barely found interesting presentations on the public website:
Tim O’Reillys keynote “Web 2.0 Five Years On” outlined nothing new. We have all already heard of harnessing collective intelligence, smart grids, gov 2.0, “build a simpler system”, “create more value than you capture” and “something that we create together” pleas.
Aaron Kim from IBM compiles some important enterprise 2.0 anti-patterns in his presentation (the content related to the anti-patterns is presented in the appendix).
Eventually, the presentation from Christina Wodtke seems to be my favourite from this series. She introduces a framework to design social websites (see below):

Britannica, Encarta, and Wikipedia

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

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Picture by Imissthevelvetunderground (creative commons license)
Microsoft has decided to shut down Encarta. The comments on the NY Times blog post are worth to be read.