John Battelle’s Searchblog points out that ‘Web 2.0’ was Wikipedia’s Most Cited Term of 2006.

PaidContent.org reports on the £100m venture funding received by ePaper start up Plastic Logic. The money is to be used to build a factory in Germany.

The company plans to improve the quality of its plastic displays from 150 pixels-per-inch, 16-shade greyscale in 2008 to 20 dots-per-inch, 4,096-color screens in 2010 and full video ability by 2012, says IDG.

Some blue chip investors are involved in the deal, including Intel, Bank of America and BASF.

Rumours surface that Wikipedia is considering launching a search service to rival Google which would combine human intelligence with web crawling to produce “better results”.

More on the subject of Ajax and metrics from Google blogger Matt Cutts…

John Battelle has produced his list of 14(?) predictions for 2007. A particularly interesting one is number 9:

Speaking of the content business, it will face a major test as two forces converge to undermine the pageview model: Ajax, on the one hand, and ad blockers on the other. Both will be addressed with alarm and alacrity by industry efforts. By the end of the year, new metrics will emerge to help publishers and marketers understand audience engagement.

There will be plenty more predictions to come, but Battelle’s list is quite thought-provoking and eclectic.

Maxthon is a new browser out in beta which promises to vastly increase productivity by packaging up most of the things you need when browsing – like feeds, web clipping, blogging tools, tagging tools … the list goes on. Nathaniel Jacobson, the company’s ceo, has done a quick tour of the product on Robert Scoble’s podcast show. Worth a look…