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This site is dedicated to the growing volume of web applications out there. As I come across new web applications, I will keep adding them to the site. Meanwhile, do share with us your favorite web applications if you have any!

Mike Arrington thinks Tim O'Reilly's Web 2.0 meme map should be simpler. As Dave said, "it's hard work to make things really simple" and I'm certainly finding that to be the case in writing a book about Web 2.0.

what do I get out of this "Web 2.0", you ask? The advantages of using the Web as a platform is that the services become more social and collaborative. Web 2.0 provides services that people can contribute to as well as mix and match. Another advantage of

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia

Yahoo, The Internet Archive and several other organizations announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance (OCA) to make thousands of books, multimedia files and other materials freely searchable and accessible online.

This piece is based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005 -- one at the O'Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The rise of user-developed classification."

by Carlo M. Cipolla, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley, in Whole Earth Review, Spring 1987

...to me the heart of Web 2.0 is the user. The enduring lesson of all of the social media and emerging technologies is that we've created an a la carte, do it yourself platform where users can engage with sophisticated forms of search, feeds, metadata and

For this year's list of worst design mistakes, I decided to try something new: I asked readers of my newsletter to nominate the usability problems they found the most irritating.

Reading about the Cognitive Analysis of Tagging reminded me of some interesting uses of tags that I've observed on Simpy. Here are three users who make interesting and very different use of tag support in Simpy:

After some digging through Simpy's backend, I found that Simpy users are quite dilligent about tagging. 98.73% of all links in Simpy are tagged! However, this has to be taken with a grain of salt, as Simpy let's users upload their browser bookmarks, and i

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Welcome to AjaxPatterns.org, an Ajax resource and home of the in-progress draft for the upcoming "Ajax Design Patterns" text (O'Reilly).