impl.emented» marketing http://impl.emented.com — tracking the Web Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:12:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Fun with Phun and Scratch [Best of May '08 #2] http://impl.emented.com/2008/05/13/fun-with-phun-and-scratch/ http://impl.emented.com/2008/05/13/fun-with-phun-and-scratch/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 10:02:44 +0000 Jonas Bolinder http://impl.emented.com/?p=31 Visual programming tools for kids, and a few more topics caught my eye this week (May 5-11 2008):

  • Steve Rubel thinks that FriendFeed is more valuable as an RSS and search tool than a social activity aggregator, and highlights the importance of FriendFeed's imaginary friend feature.
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  • Continuing the theme on visual programming tools, which in last week's highlights featured Popfly Game Creator, here's two more great free tools for learning kids (of all ages) about programming and physics: The 2D visual physics simulator Phun (see video below), written by Swedish MSc student Emil Ernerfeldt. The visual programming tool Scratch, aimed at kids 8 and up, with an impressive range of language constructs like loops and conditional statements, as well as simple event and message handling! Even though the possibilities seems relatively advanced, I've got the impression that Scratch is more accessible and rewarding to younger kids than Popfly Game Creator.

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  • Bernard Lunn comes with some old-school sales tips, including "Close on every call", "Expect mutual effort", "Selling happens face-to-face" and "Ask for the order"
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  • Google Translate now supports 23 languages including Swedish, which according to Google Translate translates into "Google Translate stöder nu 23 språk inklusive svenska" in Swedish, which is pretty accurate.
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  • Piwik, an open source web analytics software based on PHP and MySQL, an alternative to Google Analytics.
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  • There have been discussions on creating an open decentralized Twitter, mainly led by Dave Winer. The idea is motivated by the importance some people attribute to the service, and that a single company should not own it. Some even suggest creating a Twitter equivalent of the Domain Name System (DNS).
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But in reality, I think O'Reilly is saying that the versioning doesn't really matter -- the web is the web.

Josh is also kind enough to link to my post about Web 3.0 definitions in the past. Here's my comment to Josh's article:

I agree there's just the Web. Problem is, if you just say the Web, ordinary people, who might have heard of Web 2.0 as the next big thing, might think you are behind the curve. Similarly, if you say Web 3.0, people might think you are ahead. So, from a marketing point of view the versioning of the Web is probably here to stay, until we come up with a better name.

What was good about the expression Web 3.0, especially last year, was that it was fairly new and caused a lot of controversy as soon as it was mentioned. Today I feel that there is a "Web 3.0 fatigue" in the same way that we have a Facebook fatigue (I hope that I am wrong here ;-) )

Maybe it is time to throw Web 3.0 in the Deadpool, and come up with some new controversial expression that annoys enough of people, so we get some great discussions. Robert Scoble once suggested Web 2007, which obviously is inadequate today, but perhaps a code name instead of a number, like Web Zebra or something. Probably this is too confusing, so we'll be better off just sticking to Web 3.0.

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