A lot of noise is being generated about Wikia Search: “Google’s Nightmare” according to Fast Company latest issue. Of course, this is the usual journalistic hype about anything to do with Web. Big names, like Wikipedia’s founder, Jimbo Wales, will get a lot of media attention, although time and again it is some complete unknown […]

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Ajit has said that I have made up my own definition and falsely attributed it to him in order to say that it’s hype. I perhaps didn’t make my point well enough and that is regrettable and I openly apologise to Ajit. Is Mobile Web 2.0 hype or not? That’s the question.
As I posted […]

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Following on from the previous post, one might ask if the concept “Mobile Web 1.0″ itself is still largely hype. The Web experience as we all now know it, which is a “must have” feature of any PC (but not of mobile) is nothing like what we get on a mobile, so I don’t even […]

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The mobile industry, in particular data services, has been repeatedly hyped. Is Mobile Web 2.0 just more hype?
Recently, Ajit Jaokar has been perhaps the leading voice in promoting the idea of Mobile Web 2.0 and I want to contend with some of the thinking in this area, mostly as a reality check. Those who know […]

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