- More on Web 2.0 -

I just published an article on Using Web 2.0 to Promote Your Jewelry Business on Rena Klingenberg's Home Jewelry Business Success Tips site.


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- I Love Lapis.... Lazuli, that is -

I have always loved the deep, intensive blue of lapis lazuli. No wonder - people have been using this stone for about 7,000 years! I recently created a lapis lazuli and Bali silver necklace.
Besides the beautiful color, I was always fascinated by the name. Here is what Wikipedia says about its origins:

The first part of the name is the Latin lapis, meaning stone. The second part, lazuli, is the genitive form of the medieval Latin lazulum, which came from Arabic (al-)lazward, which came from Persian لاژورد lāzhward. This was originally a place-name, but soon came to mean blue because of its association with the stone. English azure, Spanish azul, Italian azzurro also derives from this source. Taken as a whole, lapis lazuli means stone of azure

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- More on Ancient Beads -

I just love these articles, like this one from the New Scientist:

Archaeologists have discovered that 100,000-year-old shells found in Israel and Algeria were decorative beads. This suggests that modern human forms of behaviour, such as language, developed earlier than previously thought.

"Personal ornaments are a powerful tool of communication," says Francesco D’Errico at the Institute of the Prehistory and Geology of the Quaternary in Talence, France, one of the team that studied the beads. "They can indicate social or marital status, for example. But you need to have a complex system of language behind that. To me [these beads] are very powerful archaeological evidence that these people were able to speak like us."

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Web 2.0 Déja Vu?

Is it just me, or doesn't his sound awfully familiar: geeks in their twenties sell their websites for gazillions, the stock market is reaching new heights, online companies without noticeable income are praised as the next hot thing...
I have looked around some of the social networking/marketing sites and am not that impressed. Yes, YouTube has funny videos, if you want to wade through hundreds of boring ones. Yes, there is Flickr, MySpace, Delicio, Kaboodle, TagWorld, Squidoo....

My question is: will the model of having hordes of eager participants create (or copy) content persist, or will many people get tired of this?

Also, will it really become the killer marketing channel? I would like to see some real statistics here.

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