Fantastic post by Dion Hinchcliffe - Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know . Raises some interesting points, but the general theme is: just figure out ways to get it to happe

You can't read, view or listen to any news media channel (Web mostly of course because mainstream old news media pretty much discounts Web 2.0 Web 2.0 Tags: digital tech Twitter Web 2.0 and vice versa...just just like viewers ignore Katie Couric ... but I digress) without seeing articles/blogs relating to social networking, VC "overheated

If you want to vote for this interview on my favorite new site, click here . --AW AW I know that I'm not blowing your mind by telling you that Thrillist is making $5 million through its email-based newsletter for affluent men. You've probably read about it on other sites. I didn't invite Ben Lerer, the company's co-founder, to Mixergy just so ...Tags:

Google's new Ad Manager technology will soon enable premium ad banners to be sold directly to advertisers by publishers and when the clicks are used up on the premium ads it will revert automatically to use Google Adsense. This is a brilliant move and will further accelerate the gap between premium content and generic publishers who don't provide any unique content value. I

One of my recent fun experiences was doing a presentation at Harvard Business School (HBS) on the implications of Web 2.0 I've somewhat fallen off the map on this blog. Been traveling and consulting with a bunch of early-stage and growth companies. Really fun stuff these days.

I just landed back home in lalaland from a trip to Tim O’reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo . I need a day to download my thoughts from both my brain and various electronic devices. Until then, please checkout the inteview I did with Los Angeles blog the  LAist .

There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are: Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site. Referring Traffic / Press - The web is interconnected, and traffic flows among sites that interlink. “If You Build It…They Will Come” may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company. Driving traffic to your website is a formula

Web 2.0 Affiliate Marketing – As described more fully in Pour and Stir , anyone with basic web development skills can become an affiliate publisher and generate income by creating websites that market a variety of products and services What do Warren Buffet, Martin Luther King, John Wayne, Walt Disney, Harry Truman and Wayne Gretzky all have in common? In addition to all of them reaching the pinnacle of their chosen professions, they also all started their careers performing the same job.

We’ve already seen how Web 2.0 eHealth is an emerging field in the intersection of medical informatics, public health and business. The market was recently forecasted to grow from $7.5-billion in 2008 to $11.3 billion in 2013 .

His picture provides a much richer understanding of what will be going on, but still in an understandable and measurable way. I'm not quite sure I believe the way he exactly models the value from each of these points as is shown in the following graphic, but a similar kind of model can certainly be developed. The other thing that I think he's really done well is his look at value of different marketing channels. A couple other great things – wow – I'm going to have a lot to come back to and comment on: Progress is not equal to features (Less is More) Focus