MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 Over the last few months, all the nerds have gotten excited about Model Context Protocol , or MCP. It's a spec that was designed by Anthropic (the Claude folk...
Toward Better Conversations Today, my friends at Branch announced that their fun and pretty little conversation platform is now open to the world, available for you to bring your friend...
All In Favor By request , a bit of explanation of how and why I favorite things on the internet. (Or favor them. Or like them. Whatever.) First, where do I favorite? On...
The Web in Danger I love the Internet. I love lots of things that are on the Internet. I have less love for things that want to undermine the Internet. Tim O’Reilly, The War...
All Around The Web There have been a lot of great conversations around and about some of my recent posts; Here are some highlights. My post about Google’s Microsoft Moment seem...
Alan Leeds and Who Writes the Web One of the most frequent questions I get when I talk to people who are unfamiliar with social media on the web is, “Who writes all these blogs or Wikipedia? Wh...
Thanks for the Add! I added this thing to my site (the HTML version, which most of you never see) a while back, and it’s gotten some interesting responses. I’ll reproduce it here...
The LOL Street Journal What makes lolcats appealing is that it’s simultaneously obscure and accessible. It’s an inside joke told in an online lingua franca, but with a bit of effor...
The Essentials of Web 2.0 Your Event Doesn't Cover Do you want to learn about the future of web applications? If so, when choosing an event, you might want to make sure it’s one that cares about including speak...
Debating a Bubble Another great Wall Street Journal online debate: Is ‘Web 2.0’ Another Bubble? David Hornik and Todd Dagres’ excellent back-and-forth was unfortunately oversh...
More Cranky Geeks! I’m on Cranky Geeks again tomorrow. Usually I cringe a little seeing myself on these things, but I think this time around we all acquitted ourselves ra...
The Starting Line is not the Finish Line There weren’t a whole lot of really new things announced at the Web 2.0 conference, mostly large companies saying what you’d expect. But one of the launches...
Life or Death for Web 2.0 A month ago, I began a series of posts outlining some common themes: Any system faces danger when it becomes a monoculture Diversity offers many broad-ra...
Sexy: Links. Unsexy: Schadenfreude “ Two of the most financially successful Web 2.0 personalities … are rooting for the financial failure of their competitors. ” Hmm. I tend to root for the su...
Bonus Features: The House of Links I tend to like the extra features on most DVDs more than the main feature. With that in mind, here’s a look at the links that made up today’s post which was a...
A Culture of Criticism From the New York Times’ Sunday Styles section Silicon Alley’s resurgence , pegged to a tech Meetup where the crowd was discussing new web startups. Yep, Web...
Web 2.0 Overload Hooray Web 2.0 Originally uploaded by torrez . Andre posted this Nascar-style assemblage of Web 2.0 company logos. Though there’s a number of grea...
Defining Web 2.0 Because I’ve been following Richard MacManus’ work on defining “Web 2.0” in Wikipedia, I really enjoyed Dan’s rant about the terrible definition that was o...
watch the sites update! Hey, TypePad testers, let’s see how quickly we can all spread a bunch of links! Here’s a list of updated public sites on TypePad right now. Everyone who read...
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus Just one of those great "Only on the Web" sites is the Visual Thesaurus from a company called ThinkMap . I’m not much of a fan of Java applets...
