user generated content

What is this Web 2.0 thing all about?

I keep seeing these ads about how the internet is changing to Web 2.0 but have no clue what it is all about. Anyone have any information on it?

10,000 Cents Buys You $100: Awesome Crowdsourced Art Project

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a crowdsourced art project that led 10,000 artists, each paid one penny for their contribution, to recreate a US $100 bill one tiny section at a time. The brainchild of San...

A Second Life on Second Life

In real life Alice Kreuger has severe multiple sclerosis and is unable to walk without the use of crutches. She rarely leaves her home except for trips to see her doctor. In the virtual world of...

A Second Life on Second Life

In real life Alice Krueger has severe multiple sclerosis and is unable to walk without the use of crutches. She rarely leaves her home except for trips to see her doctor. In the virtual world of...

UConnect Threatens to Derail Facebook

Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave, or you don’t follow Social Networking as religiously as I do, you’ve heard about the lawsuit UConnect filed against Facebook in 2004 claiming copyright...

Onslaught, meet backlash…

Christine over at PSFK points out this fantastic mish-mash backlash to Dove’s newest masterpiece, Onslaught.  Filmmaker Rye Clifton has created a piece called A Message from...

Step into Zappos

I came across this story this morning and I’m truly impressed.  I’ve never purchased from Zappos (the online shoe store that lets you buy shoes and return them to get the right size...

You can’t handle the ads!

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Wrong On Hyperlocal: Google And Web 1.0 Killed Backfence

There’s been a lot of debate about what killed Backfence, the hyperlocal news site. Was it poor design? Lack of incentives for users to generate content? Bad business model? Maybe all of these...

Friction.tv

If the blogosphere has made one point abundantly clear, it's that everyone has an opinion. Blogs give ordinary citizens a platform for written expression (and occasional delusions of grandeur)....

Google Introduces User-Generated Content For Maps Without Community

I made the argument that Google’s weakness is community and social dynamics, which have become as fundamental to the Web as hyperlinks and which represent an opportunity for Yahoo or anyone...