Web 2.Overload

By David Stewart (Intel) (138 posts) on April 26, 2007 at 10:14 am

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...)

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April 26, 2007 12:30 PM PDT

Josh Bancroft (Intel)
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 Great post. I think I'm the poster child for Web 2.Overload, what with all the feeds I read, my Twitter usage, etc.

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! :-)
April 26, 2007 1:04 PM PDT

David Stewart (Intel)
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 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

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