Floozy Speak!

Boy the web has just been freakin out lately.  Lots to talk about.  Lets go thru the new words.

Web2.0 (we’bb’two’dot’ohh)

GEEK is the new black, heck GEEKS we’re black long before pink was ever black.  Basically though, GEEK is in. Last week O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 conference landed with shell-shocking boom of wonder and amazement.  People are saying its 1995 all over again.  The bubble is back.  Venture capital interest in new web2.0 startups is at an all time high!  Ok may not completely, but you can’t escape it, the buzz on the web is back in force. 

Blogs are ooozing at the seems with the promise of web 2.0.  “Now’s the time to launch a web 2.0 venture…” they say. 

What the heck is Web2.0?  >>> The map! and then take a deep dive on that map here.

Lately Yahoo has been goobling up web2.0 type ventures, Upcoming.org, Flickr, and who knows what else, and there’s this talk of yahoo being more 2.0 than ole google… ha!  Take that google and yer not so 2.0 ways!  I think that silly actually, if anything its a bad sign really, it means 2.0 is something that can be bought and owned by a major player.  Its all up for sale folks, 2.0, 1.0, the beta you love, its all up for sale.  So 2.0 has nothing to do with the ideals, which in my opinoin can’t be bought.  Who knows.  Hopefully no one player will own the 2.0 scene. 

5th Wave?

Today I came across a new tidbit, web 2.0 is part of the nexus!  Yes Picard!  The Fifth Wave of computing is here.  Wave after wave…. heck its all new, everything is new, a need age of man is upon us, here in the age of computing where essentially every six months is a new age.

Countdown to Hypercivilization?!

One thing I will give bubble gen on, the corporatization of web2.0 is at hand which kinda bums me out.  Web2.0s get gobbled up by the corps and a change does occur, we can’t see it yet, if anything its like the big guns get a new marketing tool. 

Social Machines, Man and Blender Work as One!

A time of social machines.. like this one.. I love google images.

Truth be told however the next age, the 5th wave, the web 2.0.. it is here.  What’s that mean?  Well keep on truckin of course but the amount of what if could be, wow look at that, web app development is only gonna explode from here, or, is it the end?  Maybe its web2.0 for all of you folks out there and its really web2.5 beta for everyone else.  I estimate it’ll be about 6–8 more months before my local tv anchor man gets wind of this web 2.0 thing by then we’ll be well off into the 2.5 aspects of it. 

Until then of course we’ll have web2.0 to deal with. 

Mashup is the new REXMIX. 

Remix is out, Mashup is in.  Actually mashup probably sums up the actual process of todays remixing web apps much better.  To me a mashup is kind of a forced cluster-fuck union of ideas like when I was in Tokyo awhile back and heard the not so wonderful union of Disco and Speed Metal, that to me was a mashup, disco could not escape.  Remix on the other hand makes me think of all those cool techno remixes I have, that is art.  Speaking of mashups and remixes, check out my latest map creation.  The History of Dan (thus far).

and now, what you’ve all been waiting for..Dan’s Watch List!!

condo shoppin, yes i need a condo…

yahoo has come out with podcasts beta!, hell beta is gonna be so abused in the coming years, everyone will be beta, cause baby, beta is the new black, cause geek is black and beta and geek are like one and the same!   So now Yahoo is goin for ODEO?  I like ODEO’s tasty UI much better. 

Do it Your self Printing, personally its never really added up for my folks at all.  My father still prefers to have the photomatt folks do the printing.  I think this was one of the ill-fated myths behind digital photography, as if it’d all be ok on our end to print out the images, just never worked very well and it wasn’t as cheap as having someone else do it for ya.

Sometimes it sucks to be anything remotely related to being "christian"...   personally I love the idea of RFID.

In other news.. I watched the Darpa Grand Challenge this weekend.  It was fun to watch the real time gps tracking of the robot cars.  Very cool. Big congrats to all the winners out there, especially red team!

TAGCamp is coming, yet another event I would love to attend and I’m waaay the heck over here in the wrong state. 

And lastly, 25 words that can HURT your resume are…

Aggressive

Ambitious

Competent

Creative

Detail-oriented

Determined

Efficient

Experienced

Flexible

Goal-oriented

Hard-working

Independent

Innovative

Knowledgeable

Logical

Motivated

Meticulous

People person

Professional

Reliable

Resourceful

Self-motivated

Successful

Team player

Well-organized