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"The whole Web 2.0 explosion has moved from the consumer and college student world to professionals in the business world," says Amy Shuen, author of Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide. (O'Reilly Media, 2008).

That's right. Death sells. There is a definitive link between death and consumer behavior according to a study by Professor Naomi Mandel and co-author, Dirk Smeesters of the Rotterdam School of Management.

The social media thing has tunned in to a joke. There's so much noise and spam from the so-called experts as well as any goofball that calls h/self a consultant that almost all of the promised benefits are lost. Hey, I got rid of my rss reader - gave up reading all of about 6 blogs - almost two years ago. I don't go near twitter.

Thanks to David Weinberger for his post on the enterprise 2.0 conference.

The original ideas behind web 2.0 communities were about openness and abundance. The ability for members to freely exchange information. Most CMO's and business managers rely on web analytics - they look at quantitative data - to make decisions. CMO's should be changing their thinking about value. Rarely do they have a feel for the qualitative information.

Students at LIAFA University in Paris partnered with a team at Orange Labs to analyze Flickr (a web 2.0 application) using data from 2006. They produced this paper.

RDF is a W3C standard for modeling and sharing distributed knowledge based on a decentralized open-world assumption.

How many times a day does - What do you think - get asked? Who's asking? Your customers, your employees, your suppliers, your kids, your friends, strangers, the media, colleagues. It seems everybody wants to know what you think.