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A Web 1.0 Site In A Web 2.0 World

Here is another of my old posts from a now defunct blog, originally posted 6/12/07. You can’t convince management to let employees blog, and including user recommendations on your site is even scarier to them. A social network makes no sense for your business, and the marketing budget certainly won’t include a new site built [...]

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Can Candidates Capitalize on Web 2.0?

I love this quote from Bill Tancer, general manager of global research at Hitwise. “The online focus of the last presidential election was all about blogs and their effectiveness in communicating with potential voters, in the 2008 Presidential election, the Internet’s role is changing from a one way communication channel to a two-way conversation enabled [...]

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Political Impact of Web 2.0 and Age

Back on the issue of politics and Web 2.0, Global Market Insite, Inc. released a poll the other day on the impact of social networks on political campaigns. According to this poll of 2130 consumers between the ages of 14, while only 17% of people have viewed candidates profiles, 53% of visitors felt more likely [...]

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Politics 2.0 Favoring Democrats? Really?

Richard MacManus is posting that Web 2.0 favors democrats based on the number of friends that Democrats have versus the number of friends that Republicans have. That and a digg profile for Obama. This seems like a pretty flimsy argument to me. If you assume that Facebook and MySpace have a younger population than the [...]

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