GigaOM, 26.02.2007: Ning: let ‘000 Social Nets Bloom by Om Malik: "The company has taken its wide array of offerings – video aggregation, photo albums, weblogs, forums, sausages and sauerkraut – and has come up with what amounts to a 15-minute Social Network."
O'Reilly Radar, 27.02.2007: Creating Engaging User Experiences by Tim O'Reilly: "Adobe's holding a special product preview summit today called Engage, focused on Adobe's new tools for creating engaging user experiences. I love Adobe's framing of 'engaging user experiences' as a touchstone for the web going forward."
TechCrunch, 21.02.2007: It’s G-Day: Google Launches Apps Premier by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "The day that everyone knew was coming has arrived with the announcement that Google has launched Google Apps Premier, its subscription package of premium, hosted business applications in direct competition with Microsoft."
Web 3.0 = (4C P VS) by Sramana Mitra: "3C = Content, Commerce, Community | 4th C = Context | P = Personalization | VS = Vertical Search This, I submit, is the formula for the future: Web 3.0 = (4C P VS)."
Scientific American: A Digital Life by Gordon Bell: "New systems may allow people to record everything they see and hear--and even things they cannot sense--and to store all these data in a personal digital archive. Our research project, called MyLifeBits, has provided some of the tools needed to compile a lifelong digital archive."
Engadget, 18.03.2007: Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things by Ryan Block: "When your server farm is in the hundreds of thousands and you're using cheap, off-the-shelf hard drives as your primary means of storage, you've probably good a pretty damned good data set for looking at the health and failure patterns of hard drives."