The best Web2.0 moment of the Oscars had to be when Ellen asked Steven Speilberg to take a picture of Clint Eastwood and her for Myspace. 

Generally the whole affair was very bloggy, very reality TV.

Also just a bit boring!

Why? We live in an age of citizen celebrities.  We can can interact with our friends on  FaceBook and MySpace.  Movies were once about fantasy and glamour – inaccessible to normal people. We could only look. Now we can participate. Anybody can publish pictures, words and film online and "get distribution". Some MySpace clips get more viewers than "B" movies.  We can be the start – who needs Hollywood?

The technology is also very cheap.  I took a video of our client Cookoos - a local chicken rotisserie (very yummy). It will mounting it to their blog and MySpace shortly. Chickens can be stars too!

Symantec Chairman and CEO John Thompson
RSA Conference 2007

Thompson spoke about the growing popularity YouTube and community sites like MySpace and Friendster to demonstrate how the ability to collaborate online, work remotely and engage in more multi-party transactions is creating new business models for enterprises. 

"What used to be clear lines separating enterprises and consumers have now become blurred as networks are extended to not only partners and suppliers but also, most importantly, consumers," he said.

Source: http://www.crn.com/nl/crndailynews/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=197003899

Developed by Microsoft, ASP.NET AJAX represents a shift of traditional Web technology, allowing developers to quickly and efficiently create next-generation Web experiences built around personalization and interactivity. AJAX, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is often correlated with second major wave of user-driven Web sites, dubbed Web 2.0.

“We are excited that with Microsoft’s release of ASP.NET AJAX, we will be able to offer our customers the opportunity to create dynamic and innovative Web applications,” said Applied Innovations Senior Administrator Wayne Lansdowne. “Web 2.0, as it has been coined, ultimately redefines the Web as a distributed computing platform instead of a network for merely serving static content. The proliferation and standardization of new technology that enable this movement is critical to the future of the Internet.”

From: http://www.appliedi.net

My mail box is building up nicely with Google alerts (http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en) on Web2.0 and Web2.0PR. Two hundred or so in all. Between the skiing and making onion dip I did manage to spend a few interesting hours reviewing that file. Mostly US based Uber bloggers lending their wisdom on the scene. In an attempt to capture a conceptual hierarchy of what is hot I'll be using the notes section of this blog to collect some of the best ideas.

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