I stumble upon ReadtheWords.com service this week. And it’s really a cool service to create podcast as summarized below:

Read The Words via kwout

I tested the service submitting a ReadWriteWeb blog post via an URL. The result is quite good. Once created the podcast can be downloaded, embedded in a web page or listened directly from the ReadtheWords.com site. Actually English, Spanish and French are supported.

Kwout offers a useful way to quote site site. I use it below to quote their own front page:

kwout | A brilliant way to quote via kwout

One year ago Tim O’Reilly published the long article What is Web 2.0 that lists examples of Web 2.0 applications and services. The problem is that this document is very long and is not really a definition. The good news is that Tim O’Reilly, just published a compact definition of Web 2.0:

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them.