The new definitive Web 2007 blog

by on December 11, 2006

I’ve been looking over what I’ve been putting on my link blog trying to see trends that are happening. One thing I realize? No one has a lock anymore on being “the source” for Web 2.0 information. If you want a complete picture you need to subscribe to more than one feed. Yeah, reading TechCrunch will get you about 65% of the way there, but look at the numbers of interesting news, new products and services, opinions coming from other places.

I don’t know how we can keep up anymore. Just this weekend there were several new services added. I put dozens of new items on my link blog. It’s amazing the quality of blogging that’s being done in the tech industry — and there’s no way any one person (or company) could do it all.

While I was talking with Sanaz Ahari of Live.com, she was bragging that there’s hundreds of new gadgets available. 471, in fact. That’s just crazy and I haven’t even listed the ones available from Microsoft’s competitors like Goowy, Google, Netvibes, and others.

How will we keep up? How will any new company get adoption?

Either way, I’m sure enjoying reading feeds again. So you don’t have to. :-)

  • Robert,
    In your comments above, you noted: "I don’t know how we can keep up anymore." Well, for the past few years I've been working on the problem of how effectively to deal with the explosion of information, especially on the Internet. How can we process more information or review more materials in less time? My solution is the development of an interface on which an infinite amount of information can be displayed on a single page. This interface is now presented in a highly interactive and visual search engine called "Galaxy-It Search." Galaxy-It Search is designed to function not only as a meta-search engine but also as a startpage and notepad. In future, we'll be able to use Galaxy-It Search to do multi-level search and interact with previews of search results as well as organize our widgets (and contents) on a single page. In other words, we'll be able to see all desired information at a glance and at different levels. And should we decide to focus on specific information, we'll be able to drill down to details. This approach to information processing will significantly reduce our ever increasing information and cognitive load. Hopefully, when Galaxy-It Search becomes available online, it will enable us to process more information in less time and consequently, increase our productivity.

    Best regards,
    Rod.
  • MH512
    Look at this thread regarding blogger beta. Blogger is getting worse.
  • I've given up on the idea of tracking web 2.0 companies. There's too many of them, and who knows which ones will be important in 5 years time?
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