One of the great things about Web 2.0 is that almost anybody with talent and luck can get into the game.  Unlike the pre-2001 bubble, which was marked by big, expensive software development costs and required the endless ramping up of high-overhead people,  much of the current phase of web-application growth is fueled by free or low-cost applications like blogs and wikis or built directly for […]

To cop a conceit from Ira Gershwin, they all laughed at Vassil Mladjov when he announced last year that his (and George Athannassov’s) new company Blogtronix would be built around a .NET blogging and business collaboration platform. 
Well, not everyone laughed, but many of the open source zealots and the-anything-Microsoft-does-must-be-garbage crowd sure did.  Why would someone do something so safe and boring, […]

The reason high tech marketers love jargon like “Enterprise Web 2.0″ so much is not simply because it creates bandwagons to hitch a ride on–although there are plenty of companies trying to climb aboard the 2.0 express because it’s the latest hot thing. 
In many cases, the jargon serves a useful purpose.  Simply having a commonly understood label that implies certain specific inherent characteristics helps […]