I said at the beginning of the year that social networks and other Web 2.0 activities might start to tail off, partly because of the considerable amount of time involved in keeping everything up-to-date and tracking all of your friends’ content. Well, it looks like I’ve been backed up by Liberal Democrat MP, Steve Webb, who told the Empowering Citizens symposium the other day:
“Anyone who thinks they can do Web 2.0 in their spare time can forget it. If you go down this avenue be prepared to spend some time on it, or pay someone to spend time on it.”
Sadly, not all of us can get our hands on public funds in order to keep our Facebook accounts spick and span.
Tweeting for Britain
January 19, 2009Iain Dodsworth, a British Web 2.0 technologist, has just pulled in seed funding for his Tweetdeck application. I’ve been playing about with this recently as it’s a good way to get to grips with Adobe Air – a way of running Web-type applications away from the browser. TweetDeck allows you to split your twitter tweets into streams of content based on groups or topics which you control. Interesting to see that in these benighted times there is still some technology venture capital action. And it’s nice to see that not all Web 2.0 related stuff is being conceived and built in California.
Tags:TweetDeck, venture capital, Web 2.0
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