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Sunday, 18th September 2005

Weekly Wrap-ups

Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 12-18 Sep 2005

sponsored by: This week: eBay-Skype: Web 2.0 Ramifications, The Real World - Katrina response, Microsoft PDC - Start.com extended, Yahoo Shopping API and Shopify, New apps on the block. eBay-Skype: Web 2.0 Ramifications Early this week eBay confirmed its acquisition of Skype for between $2.6 - 4.1 billion. On my ZDNet blog I looked at…

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Saturday, 17th September 2005

WeboMania 2006: Macho Man Microsoft vs Google the Giant

Summary: 2006 may well be Microsoft's year, with upgrades to its flagship Vista OS and Office 12 products. But only if Google lets it be their rival's year. We don't yet know what Google has up its sleeve - when will they release their own browser, or their web-based Office suite? We'll find out perhaps in 2006. Brad Feld thinks 2006 will be "The…

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Thursday, 15th September 2005

Web Development

The danger of running a remix service

Populicio.us was a service that used data from social bookmarking site del.icio.us, to create a site with enhanced statistics and a better variety of 'popular' links. However the Populicio.us service has just been taken off air, because its developer can no longer get the required information from del.icio.us. The developer of Populicio.us…

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BlogBridge topic expert on Web 2.0

Part of my duties as the self-proclaimed Father of Web 2.0 is to help spread the word and get people interested in Web 2.0. BlogBridge has just published a list of some of my favourite Web 2.0-focused blogs. Note that it's not a directory of all Web 2.0 related feeds, just a selection of feeds I visit regularly. I'm in good company in the…

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Wednesday, 14th September 2005

Web Development

Fleshing out Web 2.0

A new blog called Web Service Finder has done a Map of the Web 2.0 World and opened it up for editing on a Wiki. This is by the same blog that did a directory of APIs and Web Services - currently featuring 105 APIs and 27 examples. Chris Law, who helped found the social networking site Tribe, is the guy behind it. It's great to see all these API…

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