how to live web 2.0 style
What does it take to live web 2.0 style? How does one become …err… “one” with the web 2.0 mantra? Let’s just see:
- check multiple e-mail addresses, several g-mail accounts (very web2.0), a yahoo mail, and an old hotmail just for kicks
- have massive amounts of rule-based entries, spamassassin filters, in said e-mail accounts, have a nice little PDA device and/or smartphone that grabs the last few mails from the important ones
- update your blogs regularly. Definitely, very web2.0, to update all your blogs at least 3 times a day. We’re talking, your Wordpress blog on your own dedicated server, your MovableType (and Typepad) blog, your blogspot and blogger blogs, your livejournal diary, your myspace blog, bloglines, yahoo 360!, googleblogs (I made that one up, but by the time I finish this post, I’m sure it will be invented) and make sure you ping and technorati tag the crap out of everyone and everything. Oh, and be sure to flickr blog your breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and everything in between.
- bookmark everything (including this post) with your bookmarklet software of the day using del.icio.us
- blogroll everyone: not only must you blog yourself, but you must also make sure you perform roll call on all your friend’s blogs and their friend’s friend’s blogs, which leads me to my next web2.0 item d’jour:
- social network the crap out of everyone. You must update your profile and send at least a million messages on your Friendster, Orkut, Linkedin, Ryze, mySpace, classmates, and all 50 other social networks you’re in.
- use an API to build an API on top of an API to automate your job, life, and social-life (what’s that?)
Then, and only then, will you be web2.0.
