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Normally I'm pretty enthusiastic about new technology ideas. This is because even a mediocre or boring idea might hold the seed for something insanely great.
And since Web 2.0 holds the promise of cons-ing together new things from pieces of other things very easily, it's the natural place to look for the viral DNA of the Next Big Thing.
It's starting to get a little out of control for me!
In just the past week, my awareness touched on two new Web 2.0-ish ideas: Twitter and Good Reads.
I have seen Twitter being used by some bloggers -- it's kind of a "micro-blog" service which allows you to exchange one-line "tweets" with your friends, usually to talk about what you're doing.
The effect must be like what I experienced this morning at 5AM from my front lawn -- an insanely loud bird singing at the top of it's little lungs and "networking" with the same species of bird in other trees in other yards.
I can imagine a lot of uses for this kind of idea as a part of other ideas. Apparently others can too, since Twitter was written up in the NY Times.
This week I was also invited to befriend someone on Good Reads. It kind of looks like a Flickr for books.
But hey, I can't even take full advantage of the cool services I subscribe to already! I would love to collaborate more on Flickr, del.icio.us, livejournal, but there are only so many minutes in the day.
Am I experiencing Web2.Overload? (And did I just coin this term? Looks like it's the only Google reference...)
| April 26, 2007 1:04 PM PDT
David Stewart (Intel)
| Sure! Sign me up! |
| April 29, 2007 2:07 AM PDT
Sharon Greenfield |
Heh. Totally Dave, I know how you feel. I actually am just getting a personal website/blog up again, because I overloaded on it all a couple years back. The interesting thing is to know that all these new amazing technologies and apps will go through a filtering process and many will be lost to the tech storm and fall along the wayside in a year or two. I have fun guessing which ones are sustainable for our cultures interests for long periods of time vs which ones will be flashes in the pan. Hey, I'm unemployed - it's better that betting on the ponies! *grin* Keep up the great posting Dave! |
| May 3, 2007 2:31 PM PDT
xarzu |
I will post a link to my Web 2.0 journey and I will post a link there back to this web page. Then everyone will eventually be trapped in an unending loop. http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/billthompson/8380 |

Josh Bancroft (Intel)
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You should come to my BloggingAcademy.com sessions here at Intel - let me know and I'll send you the invite. We're using the bloggingacademy.com site as a live playground/sandbox for the stuff we talk about, so you can follow it there, if you like.
This would be a great topic to talk about there - how to avoid getting overloaded and/or stressed by all these new technologies! :-)