web 2.0 – Page 8 – Andrew Orlowski

Web 2.0 firms lobby for £100m gravy train

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Andrew Orlowski

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23 March 2007

If the Web 2.0 hype is running out of steam, a healthy injection of public funds should kick it back into life. New media companies in the UK are lobbying for the establishment of an institution which could spend what critics call a £100m “jackpot” of public money each year. The new agency, which Ofcom…

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On the Web 2.0 bubble

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Andrew Orlowski

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3 February 2007

To London, where the web utopianism has a name (“Web 2.0”) and is a rage amongst marketing and media people. I reiterated a point I had raised two years earlier: &ldquo”Let’s acknowledge what the Web has been successful at: as a presentation layer. But the Web 2.0 kids desperately want to write system apps on…

Stories

John Doe blogger is ‘Person of the Year’

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Andrew Orlowski

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18 December 2006

Few publications in the world take themselves as seriously as Time magazine, and Christmas each year finds it at its most unctuous and self-important, as Time chooses its “Person of the Year”. This year, the award for newsmaker of 2006 is given to “You” – the internet user. But perhaps not you or me. The…

Stories

Whatever happened to… The Wisdom of Crowds?

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Andrew Orlowski

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11 November 2006

Future social historians looking back at the web cult – which met in San Francisco this week for a $3,000-a-head “summit” – may wonder what made them tick. Scholars could do worse than examine their superstitions. We’ll bet that lurking on the bookshelf of almost every “delegate” was a copy of James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom…

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The mobile web: 2.0 into one doesn’t go

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Andrew Orlowski

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19 October 2006

Hoping some Californian magic pixie dust might fall upon the sleepy world of telephony, the Symbian Smartphone Show organisers devoted an afternoon of presentations to the topic of “Social Media”. Would Web 2.0 make it to the phone? It had a bit of your Dad at the Disco about it, and even Symbian’s no-nonsense research…

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