Web 2.0~If you haven’t been hiding under a rock, you know what this is and how powerful and important it is to take full advantage of this web trend. There are new forms of communication, lots of massive innovation and you can use it to develop your own applications and them to your arsenal of tools.

Here are just a few suggestions to get you started and bring you up to speed:

*Web Apps: solve a real customer problem. Period. If you do so, they won’t hesitate to us it over traditional software. Traditional software apps are being replaced by web apps so jump on board ASAP. Grab and use new tools: video, Accounting, CRM, etc.

*Mobile Apps: More and more companies are developing apps to be used via wireless connection. Very hot trend right now and exploding in growth. Apple and Google are already there with Microsoft right on their heels.

*Online Video: Simply put, business websites with video directly translate to increased traffic. Lots of room for startups, especially in a particular niche.

*Blogging: If you are into implementing blogs rather than starting a blog-related business, this may be for you. Blog-powered websites will phase out the lonely, static corporate website.

*Web 2.0 Consulting: Self-explanlatory!

*Look for Booming Businesses: Financial Planning and Travel, etc.~Advisory Services.

What is the baby boomer up to these days? There are not so technically-challenged that they can’t find their way around the internet. So, what problems are they trying to solve and what information are they seeking?

They are planning for retirement and also looking for ways to take care of their aging parents and their college-bound children. Solve these problems and you have a vibrant business on your hands.

They also want to travel. And not just your usual travel experience~they want a different, meaningful, exotic experience. There is a big market right now for group travel: university alumni, volunteer groups and singles for example.

The good thing for you and me is that these baby boomers have no interest in doing this type of Web 2.0 development on the web. They know how to use the internet, but they don’t want to write the manual. They do things like write blogs, participate somewhat in social networking, playing games, listening to podcasts and downloading music.

So armed with this fistful of information, take it an run with it. Start a new business. Let me know how I can help!

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Twitblogs is an interesting startup currently in alpha that is designed for “long winded” Twitter life streamers like myself. It allows any Twitter user to tweet as usual, or to use Twitter for microblogging, complete with images, sounds, videos, and rich text. This will eventually allow for a deeper and more diverse experience for those who opt to dig into it. Essentially the service provides a “back story” for any Twitter tweet.

How It Works

The Twitblogs interface is clean and simple. Users are essentially looking at a three tab, top navigation interface with a sidebar reflection of their Twitter account. The top tabs reflect the functions it offers: Blog, Twitter, and Search respectively. In the screen shot below, these basic functions are seen with the other elements.

Blogging

The blog interface is the heart of this little tweet enhancer. A simple text editor is provided, along with photo and image capability. To post a tweet with extras simply requires entering the standard 140 character tweet, inputting any URLs (which are then shortened), and then adding more text and other media as desired. The end result is an update on Twitter, with a link back to the full entry. The input interface and the resulting post are illustrated below.

Input editor showing all aspects.

Tweets here work just as simply as they do on the Twitter site itself; perhaps even smoother. Without going into too much detail, it is obvious how useful and fun this tool will be for many. For those who feel frustrated with the limitations of just 140 characters, this is a happy compromise between a full blog post and a tiny tweet.

Searching

Twitblogs offers a nice search function that can be quite effective for finding people or relevant tweets on Twitter. The ability to save those searches is a helpful addition. Below is a search result along with the save function that helped me find things related to a friend.

Finding stuff related to old Pete was easy.

Other Aspects

According to the Twitblogs development team, within the next week or so, they intend to release several key features, among those are: Growl notification support, threaded conversation in the Twitter tab, auto refresh in search, twitblo.gs version of shortened URLs, and other improvements.

Conclusion

Twitblogs is co-founded by Roger Kondrat, Santosh Panda, and Sam Sethi. So far there are no strict roles for the founders, but Roger is head of Marketing and PR, Sam’s bio reads like business development, and Santosh’s akin to CTO. I suggested to Roger that Twitblogs would make one interesting tool in widget form, to which he agreed – suggesting I wait to see what’s next. Twitblogs right now is replete with a good number of bugs and glitches that make the experience rather, well, aggravating. These appear to be mainly Javascript issues, and the team assured me they are going to a more pure CSS format for many features.

Though only in very early development, Twitblogs has obvious potential. According to Roger, they already have relationships with Amazon and Sun Microsystems. From a blogger perspective it currently serves little purpose, but I see the finished tool as a communications platform in portable form. It makes sense as a widget, but one where the dialogue started on Twitter, can be used to engage a deeper dialogue and experience it quickly, easily and from anywhere. This is where I think the tool is headed, and it is actually just what Twitter needed in the first place.

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What is Twitter?

Twitter is a social networking and micrblogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question:  What are you doing?

But that “What are  you doing?” question can go a long way towards building you, your brand and your business.

Do you realize that Twitter is:

• -The most viral application social users are using right now?
• -You can accomplish listbuilding and have access to other people’s lists?
• -Twitter is a Microblogging site?

It is not the old days whereby someone captures their own list and then no one knows who is on that list.  All you need to do is click on a person’s name to see their “followers.”  You can then click on their name and start following them as well!

Join the Twitter Revolution as the multitude of Twitter Applications are presented here for your use.

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