People are always asking me...

Here's a new blog and blogger who's a good friend of mine. I thought I'd share his first blog here: People are always asking me...: "People are always asking me..."

The Achilles Heel of Web 2.0. Moore's Lore:

The Achilles Heel of Web 2.0. Moore's Lore:: "It's an open secret that eBay is beset by fraud, on both sides of transactions, that Google results can be clickfrauded, that Amazon is robbed by identity thieves. These companies regularly calculate the cost of real police against the perceived benefits from better policing and keep the wallets in the pocket. We all suffer from that.

The danger is that every Web 2.0 start-up I've seen or heard of goes the same route. Computer interactions are replacing human interaction, cutting the costs of transactions. Perhaps we're cutting too deeply."

The Antihype Is Thickening

Joel Spolsky on Web 2.0: The Antihype Is Thickening. Get Real: Stowe Boyd's take on collaborative and social technology, and its impact on business and society: "People who don't get the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 aren't idiots, but they certainly aren't out there creating and promoting Web 2.0 apps and concepts: they are commenting, looking in from afar, and reading and repeating the comments of other uninvolved, or actively hostile, watchers."

From the Web 2.0 Trenches: How to Build Real Businesses

From the Web 2.0 Trenches: How to Build Real Businesses ~ ISEdb.COM: "How Can Entrepreneurs Survive Web 2.0?

SPACE.com -- Japan's Hayabusa Closes in on Asteroid Landing Site

SPACE.com -- Japan's Hayabusa Closes in on Asteroid Landing Site: "Now just a few miles distant from the space rock, the spacecraft is poised for an historic attempt to collect and return a specimen to Earth from such an object. Imagery from Hayabusa is being used by Japanese scientists to target potential touchdown sites on the rocky world.

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