New Level of the Web

New article in Discover magazine:
Emerging Technology
Web 2.0 Arrives
Software upgrades promise to turn the Internet into a lush rain forest of information teeming with new life
By Steven Johnson
DISCOVER Vol. 26 No. 10 October 2005
is very thought provoking and applicable to anyone trying to start a web based enterprise today.
Must read.

Power Web Searches

Using intelligent agents or web crawlers is not new, but with recent increases in bandwidth and computing power for most people it is more feasible than ever for individuals to use their own agents to conduct web mining and data gathering.