January 13, 2010, 17:59
Barack Obama’s fiercest rivals in the race to the White House have still not updated their LinkedIn profiles nearly one-year (51 weeks) since the historic inauguration of the 44th President of the United States.
Despite a fairly impressive new job title, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is still “Candidate at Hillary Clinton for President”:-
And if you were to believe their LinkedIn profiles, Republican Presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin are still in contention for the top jobs!
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November 1, 2008, 14:13
A few days ago there was an interesting discussion on LinkedIn’s “Travel 2.0″ group about what the buzzword “Web 2.0″ really means and how useful it is.
Here I adapt my own contribution to that discussion:-
Tim O’Reilly, who originally coined the term in 2004, said Web 2.0 is “a transformative force that’s propelling companies across all industries towards a new way of doing business characterized by user participation, openness, and network effects”.
“Web 2.0” is essentially a more interactive version of “Web 1.0”, allowing users to not only retrieve information, but also react to it, contribute to it, syndicate it, tag it, bookmark it, define it, control it, and create it.
Elements of Web 2.0 existed before 2004 and even before the dot com crash in 2001. In fact, many of the survivors of the bursting of the bubble had already woken up to the benefits of O’Reilly’s “user participation, openness, and network effects”.
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