Gisteren publiceerde ik deel 1 van de Top 25 Web 2.0 Search engines. Dat leidde tot veel reacties, dus vandaag maar meteen door met deel 2 van dit overzicht. Met daarin aandacht voor de sociale aspecten (user contribution, recommendations, social networks), visual search en audio/video search. Verder eveneens een korte update over enkele recente ontwikkelingen bij Google en Microsoft op het vlak van de toepassing van Web 2.0 technieken in hun (traditionele) search.

Disruption & Opportunity The Web 2.0 Summit focuses on emerging business and technology developments that utilize the Web as a platform and defines how the Web will drive business in the future. Now that the Web has become a robust platform with countless innovations driving its ongoing development, widespread disruptions in traditional business models are well underway. But within the chaos of disruption lies the seeds of opportunity. We'll focus on the startups and financiers tending those seeds, of course - including the second annual Launch Pad. But we'll also highlight how the incumbents are also taking advantage of disruption, or, at the very least, how they are responding to it so as to protect their market positions. Read more.

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