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This comes from Joshua Porter.

The del.icio.us lesson

• Personal value precedes network value
• People rarely do things for the “good of the network”
• Del.icio.us, though providing very cool tagging features, is mostly about a single person remembering items for later.

His third point resonates with me because that is how I use del.icio.us. I think it points to the fact that Web 2.0 is really about helping individuals accomplish their goals. Recommendations are helpful when they help me accomplish what I want.

Joshua has some other interesting observations or lessons on what we have learned so far about leveraging the Web.

I did a roundtable discussion with Rob Williams today. We got together several Web practioners that work at Campus Crusade’s headquarters and gave a introduction and demonstration of the concept known as Web 2.0. I posted the outline of what we covered on the Effective Web Ministry notes blog.

Over 47 million people are hanging out on MySpace.com. What would the Apostle Paul think of the virtual world of MySpace.com? are some thoughts of a web evangelists that encourages us to go to where the culture is just as the Apostle Paul did in Athens.

See Dave Rogers’ article, Web 2.0: Mistaking the Forest for the Trees? It helped me to make another step in understanding and being able to explain this concept that has been termed “Web 2.0.” Web 2.0 is the application of the reality that most designers and companies have been slow to embrace. The Web is about the user or the reader. It needs to be designed for users and empower him or her to achieve a specific goal or dream with greater ease than has been true in the past. This article was a good compliment to another article that I recently blogged about, Tech.Memeorandum’s Filtering Illustrates Web 2.0’s Most Important Skill. Joshua Porter pointed out that recommendations help users to filter to the good stuff, the content that they want, content that is useful and can be trusted.

Web 2.0 has empowered me to get the content I want without having to go browse for it. Using RSS feeds, I can “subscribe” to a blog or website. My RSS reader goes out and finds the new content and “delivers” it to me. Sites like Flickr empowers me to share photos with others or use other people’s work to enhance my own. Using this blog, I can share with others things that I have learned or tools that I have found helpful. That empowers others as I have been empowered through many of the blogs that I read.

So Web 2.0 is really about creating better user experiences that that users can easily accomplish their end goal whether it would be to find good content, share a picture, connect with their friends, find an apartment, purchase something or become more productive in their work.

I have experienced some problems with Firefox 1.5. I think this is the third time that I have tried it. I uninstalled everything on my machine associated with a previous version of FF. I ran FF 1.5 almost all day and was hoping my problems with it were behind me when I encountered the problem late on Friday. I clicked on the FF icon in my launch bar and nothing. Firefox.exe showed up in my “processes” but the browser never came up. I gave it about twenty minutes and never saw it. I could get it to open in “safe mode” but not in normal operating mode.

I had the same problem two times before and ended up reverting back to 1.0.7. It is frustrating because I really like the FF browser. I found several people who had problems with this version of FF on the support forum on the Mozzila site, but none of them seemed to match what I had expereinced.

The only thing that I think it could have been is that I changed my setting to auto detect the proxy we use at work. When I switched that setting today at home in “safe” mode, I got the full operation browswer to come up. I am hoping that it continues to work. Otherwise, I will go back to 1.0.7 and aviod the hassles.