Web2.0

What is the most important difference between websites and blogs? It’s about being up to date or timeless. Or it’s about being still valid. The info at a blog is expected to be valid at a certain point in time while the content on a website is expected to be timeless.

Ten Web 2.0 Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be a More Successful E-learning Professional By Stephen Downes, National Research Council Canada

But what is new is that the interfaces have changed to allow each member of a community to have their own microsite—an identity on the Web that is unique and centralized. And this focus on online identity is what could turn search upside down.

Google Docs doesn't live in the 'document' world. Oh it has similar naming conventions, it uses all the jargon that we're used to and it pretends to be a document ... but it's not because it comes from the 'words' world view. It knows that the words you're gonna edit are, 99.9% of the time, going to want to be loved by many more than you. And being on the Web they know that the world of connected people at your fingertips is massive. Not only is there the list of attractive people in your contacts list but there is everyone with an internet connection!

Projecting this productivity advantage forward, I am confident in predicting that within a year or two, online suites will overtake desktop software in terms of features and functions. It won’t just be the Zoho or Google suites that would get there, perhaps even new companies that are as yet unknown.

实际上，Steve Jobs、Ed Catmull 和 John Lasseter 说：“唯一让我们害怕的事就是自满（感觉我们已经找到了所有问题的真谛）。我们想让你来进行重组。如果我们认为你所做的事情没有意义，我们会与你痛快地争论一番。但是，如果你能说服我们，我们将会以一种不同的方式做事。”对于一个只有成功没有失败的公司来说，邀请一个刚刚结束一项失败的人并且对他说：“干你的，对我们的思想进行挑战，对公司进行改革。”你什么时候能遇到这种事呢？

他们的共同点是不知疲劳的探索性格

我们就都在同一条船上了，我们都朝着一个明确的目标前进。”

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You can share any content from any web page, even if the site doesn't have a feed.

For even more control over what gets shared, select some text from the page before clicking the "Note in Reader" bookmarklet and your selection will appear as the item's body.

Have you ever wanted to share something that you were reading, but you didn't want to go through the hassle of subscribing to a whole feed for a single interesting article? And what about sharing content from sites with no feeds? There you are, reading along, and you think to yourself, "If only everything on the web had a 'Share' button like in Google Reader!"

On Saturday at the Scratch workshop I attended at TIES, I convinced Troy Cherry, the presenter, to give Twitter a try. This morning, he created an account and started following me. Later he "tweeted", "I'm a huge fan of del.icio.us. I may become a bigger fan of Diigo."

Google will join Facebook and MySpace, which launched ways to port user data to partner sites this week. Facebook Connect will provide the hooks to let users port their friends, profile photos, events, and other data across the Web to partner sites. MySpace on Thursday announced Data Availability, with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter as initial partners for its effort to let members port their data.