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What in the world happened to the promise of Web 2.0? Whatever it was, we are now bogged down in mud hole only slightly resembling the “El Dorado” [...]

As the search engine race heats up, more and more evidence surfaces to the effect that this year will be the year of search. From Jimmy Wales and Jason Calacanis squaring off at the Digital Life Design conference to Google’s “behind the scenes” search elements - the quest for the next search is in full [...]

Do you ever get tired of downright stupidity? I know you do and I sympathize whole heartedly. In the technology field of writing we often wrestle with complex and difficult to explain innovations and services. Some of us spend untold hours just trying to understand, let alone explain some of these creations, and even [...]

Today my friends at hakia.com announced an additional §5 million investment, this brings the total investment in the meaning based search engine to $21 million so far. Hakia has perhaps the best chance of breaking the semantic search barrier this year and these additional funds are earmarked for developing a semantic advertising platform. Additionally, hakia [...]

I strolled over to ReadWriteWeb to see what Richard and the gang were up to, and behold they broke out the crystal ball before New Year! As usual the writers at RWW share some insightful and interesting predictions for 2008. I thought I should take the opportunity to share some of these and perhaps add [...]