Today, both Wikio and Wikia made announcements at LeWeb (or was it LaWeb?).

“Stranded: The James Kim Ordeal”. I’m watching it live now. A beautiful, tragic story.

My friend, b-2-b media veteran, and blogger Paul Conley says: “If I had a dollar for every private-equity investor, overpaid executive, Blackberry-addicted venture capitalist and cash-flow-crazed M&A advisor who didn’t understand me, I’d be as rich as they are. But those people have to listen to Craigslist. Craigslist is big. And big makes them drool.”

For Techmeme and Memorandum fans who like one-page river-of-news views, you’ll love this announcement about a river view of Gabe Rivera’s news and commentary aggregation services. If none of this makes sense to you, don’t worry. One day, all of this will help simplify things when it comes to managing all that info that comes crashing into your world all day.

Tim O’Reilly is the individual who is [choose one: (a) credited, (b) blamed] with first using the term Web 2.0 to blend together a few meteaphors into a a trade-markable (at least for seminars) notion. While he’s talked about it a lot, he’s now trying to define it:

“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I’ve elsewhere called “harnessing collective intelligence.”)”

My observation: If he’d started out this way, no one would be using the term. As much as I dislike the term, for several years I’ve observed that is has been extremely helpful in the viral-growth of the “Web 2.0 brand” that the term was allowed to grow up around the notion that any Ajax features added or rounded fonts used in the design or “friend me” actions enabled is enough to make something Web 2.0 — that and a mention on TechCrunch.

(rexblog flashback: (November 20, 2005) “Why the term Web 2.0 means nothing.”)

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In one of the first examples I’ve seen of a business-to-business media company utilizing a wiki, today MediaPost announced it is setting up the MediaPost Wiki.

Quote:

“MediaPost Wiki for Media Terms. This is an open dictionary of terms, people, and companies that relate to media — “open” in that you, yes, you can edit any of the entries to improve them.

If you know of any other media companies that are setting up wikis, please comment here or e-mail me.

(Disclosure for why my interest: SmallBusiness.com is a property of Hammock Publishing and a passion of mine.)

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