revolution

Former AOL head man Steve Case has been actively promoting his latest venture, Revolution Health, and the website is seeing a rise in visits.

The Revolution Health website is, in some ways, like many others; it calls itself “a free, comprehensive health and medical information site, specifically designed with the Family’s Chief Medical Officer - women and other caregivers - in mind.”  But Revolution Health is actually doing well, thanks largely to Google and Ask.

web 2.0 EXPO: The Social Media Revolution | mad dog in the fog - Yesterday, Robert Scoble, Chris Pirillo, Jeremiah Owyang and myself participated in a panel on The Social Media Revolution at O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo.

The start of a humorous advertising campaign in England by Ask.com has drawn some lively criticism on the main website for the promotion. We tossed some questions at Greg Ott, Ask's VP of Marketing, to try and get a better measure of the campaign's impact.

The recent announcement that .mobi domain names had been released for general sale caused very little stirring on the Internet.

The Colonials had their Tea Party; the Boomers had Nam; Generation X, everything we could think of as long as we didn't miss Seinfeld; Generation Why, because Facebook sent a news feed to spy on them.

As it turns out, the revolution will be televised, or sort of televised anyway. Actually, it starts as a commercial.

The second Internet revolution has clearly started to take shape. Remember the massive changes forecast by hundreds of tech-writers, including myself, for the past two years? While slower in coming than expected, the last critical stage for their mass adoption of these changes, their introduction, appears to have begun. Welcome to Revolution 2.1.