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Posts tagged Web 2.0
10 Great Web 2.0 Books
Nov 14th
Web 2.0 is changing how the world communicates and does business. Pick a book or two and broaden your understanding – Recommend starting with The Cluetrain Manifesto.
(click on the book covers for reviews at Amazon.com)
5 More Books After the JUMP
Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Now The Infinite Web
Oct 11th
An article by Scott Loganbill in the monkey_bites section of webmonkey reports that “As our economy sours more and more technologists are writing off Web 2.0 as dead.” Then he goes on to say, “We believe … the web is evolving. In fact, there’s no sign it will ever stop.” He also states that “Luckily for all of us, web technology is still in it’s infancy…”
I side with Scott on this. Whoever the “nervous technologists” are, they are wrong. Human beings are all about connections and relationships. The World Wide Web, that Tim Berners-Lee so un-selfishly gave us, is all about connections. The web is still More >
YouTube – The Story
Aug 14th
“How We Did It”
Chad was the speaker for June 2008 Startup2Startup dinner.
He told the story of how YouTube was started by the three co-founders – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. All three were former employees of PayPal who were looking for a solution to easily upload videos for sharing.
In October 2006 Google aquired YouTube for $1.65 Billion.
Chad was a designer at PayPal where he created the PayPal logo.
See Also:
Chad Hurley: How We Did It by Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee.com
Chad Hurley, YouTube CEO/Co-Founder, talks to entrepreneurs @ June Startup2Startup dinner by Dave McClure at More >



















