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Web 2.0 is 5 years old. It’s so old that Tim O’Reilly, the one who coined the term Web 2.0 in the first place, has renamed it “Web Squared” for his summit in October.
Here is a great point-counterpoint presentation on the question of whether social media is mature — or just getting started.
Two-thirds of the world’s Internet population visit social networking or blogging sites, accounting for almost 10% of all internet time, according to a new Nielsen report “Global Faces and Networked Places.” If data captured from December 2007 through December 2008 is any indication, that percentage is likely to grow as time spent on social network and blogging sites is growing more than three times the rate of overall Internet growth.
“Social networking has become a fundamental part of the global online experience,” commented John Burbank, CEO of Nielsen Online. “While two-thirds of the global online population already accesses member community sites, their vigorous adoption and the migration of time show no signs of slowing.”
via Social Networking’s New Global Footprint | Nielsen Wire.
The New York Times is becoming a Social Network!
Releasing the TimesPeople API now available is a big step for us. Back when we first came up with TimesPeople, we were trying to answer the question, “How can we give back to the Social Web?” We realized that we could only represent the user in the context of NYTimes.com. The first step was aggregating a user’s public actions and making it possible to share those activities with other TimesPeople users. This didn’t really “give back” to the social Web, but now the API is available — and that means your TimesPeople data can be syndicated and used all over the Web.
via Announcing the TimesPeople API – Open Blog – NYTimes.com.
Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later
By Stephen Baker and Heather Green
Editors note: When we published “Blogs Will Change Your Business” in May, 2005, Twittering was an activity dominated by small birds. Truth is, we didnt see MySpace coming. Facebook was still an Ivy League sensation. Despite the onrush of technology, however, thousands of visitors are still downloading the original cover story.
So we decided to update it. Over the past month, weve been calling many of the original sources and asking the Blogspotting community to help revise the 2005 report. Weve placed fixes and updates into more than 20 notes; to view them, click on the blue icons. If you see more details to fix, please leave comments. The role of blogs in business is clearly an ongoing story.