Here is the small Favlets which can assist you to post links at DOTENET portal. Simply drag below hyperlink to toolbar of your browser. It will create a bookmark link at toolbar clicking on which can post current page to DOTENET portal.

Favlets: DOTENET: Submit
(drag this link to browser’s toolbar)

Here are small tutorials on installing Favlets in your browser:
How to use favlets
Bookmarklets – Browser Power
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How to use this Favlet? It’s just a matter of click now. If you find any article, post or blog useful simply click on the favlet at toolbar, this favlet will then navigate you to the submit page with URL, Title field already entered. Now you only have to provide description and tags. To further reduce navigating between source URL and DOTENET, you can follow these steps:

1. After finding any useful link, select abstract summary of article or post. If you want to provide your own description, skip this step.
2. Click on the “DOTENET: Submit” favlet. You will be redirect to submit page.
3. Provide tags in submit page. And you are done!

Please do let me know if you are facing any issue to submit post.

UPDATE: I have modified this favlet to send selected text of source article/post to DOTENET submit page. You now just have to select text and click on this favlet.

Its give me immense pleasure to announcement .NET portal – DOTENET (URL: www.dotenet.com). It’s “Digg” style web application dedicated to .NET and relative technologies. This portal will serve as central hub to share articles, tutorials, blog post etc.

When I was planning to create this portal two months back, I was sure that first release of this project will have minimum “must to have” features and later I will add features which are “good to have”. And that’s why you will notice many blank pages on this portal. These blank pages are place-holder for features which I will add in coming weeks (depending upon available bandwidth).

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Ok, so next time when you use term “Web 2.0″, be prepare yourself to get legal notice from lawyer of O’Reilly.

News is that IT@Cork wants to organize a upcoming Web 2.0 half-day conference and they got legal notice from O’Reilly demanding that they should immediately cease and desist from using term “Web 2.0″ as title of this event. And funny part is that Tim O’Reilly was actually got invitation for same conference.

O’Reilly trademarks “Web 2.0? and sets lawyers on IT@Cork!

And here is that cease and desist letter:

Thats Great!

But problem here is the Tim O’Reilly can not legally register the term “Web 2.0″ as service mark because someone else has already using this term and for commercial purpose since 2002.

It’s a book published by Dermot A. McCormack in 2002:
Web 2.0: The Future of the Internet and Technology Economy

And thence Tim O’Reilly can not legally register or own the term “Web 2.0″.

First of all, I must admit that I am strong proponent of Web 2.0. I don’t see any problem with assigning any buzz word to indicate bunch of features to web sites.

But I always uncertain about who has actually coined the term “Web 2.0″? The most telling story about origination of this term is in article written by Tim O’Reilly in What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software in September 30, 2005:

…began with a conference brainstorming session between O’Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O’Reilly VP, noted that far from having “crashed”, the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What’s more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as “Web 2.0″ might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born…

I read a lot about this story in various articles, blogs etc. and everything is looks fine to me that Tim O’Reilly has actually coined the term “Web 2.0″ till I point by browser to a interesting book which has been published way back in 2002 (June 15, 2002) by Dermot A. McCormack.

Web 2.0: The Future of the Internet and Technology Economy and How Entrepreneurs, Investors, Executives & Consumers Can Take Ad (Execenablers) by Dermot A. McCormack

Per description of this book:

…The first phase of the Internet economy has come to an end with the dramatic fall in the markets, however phase two (Web 2.0) is just getting started and will take shape much more cautiously over the next couple of years. In this book, Dermot McCormack clearly outlines the specific trends, challenges and opportunities for companies, consumers, the stock market and entrepreneurs….

So this book is also outlining the same concepts and trends which have been described by Tim.

But you must have noticed one thing, date of publication of book published by Dermot A. McCormack and that article written Tim O’Reilly. And so question arises here. Who has coined this term? Is that Tim O’Reilly or Dermot A. McCormack??

Tim may have popularized this term through that published article but IMO it actually Dermot who has first coined this term.