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Sunday, 30th October 2005

Weekly Wrap-ups

Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 24-30 Oct 2005

This week: Microsoft's Web 2.0 strategy, Google Base, Yahoo! travel, Web 2.0 Humour, 2.0 Post of the Week. sponsored by: Microsoft's Web 2.0 Strategy There's big news coming this week from Microsoft, on the consumer as well as business side. It sounds like Microsoft is really ramping up its Web 2.0 strategy. Meanwhile, this week I wrote…

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Saturday, 29th October 2005

InfoWorld story on Microsoft unveiling hosted services next week

I was quoted in an IDG InfoWorld story, entitled Gates, Ozzie seen unveiling hosted services next week: "Some prominent Microsoft watchers, such as Richard MacManus, also have suggested a hosted version of Microsoft Office may be in the works. In his Web log, Web 2.0 Explorer, freelance Web analyst and writer MacManus on Sept. 28 outlined…

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Thursday, 27th October 2005

Web Development

Microsoft building a Web-based Office suite?

My latest ZDNet column is a potential doozy: Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications. But the best quote in that article was left till last. A "Microsoft insider" was asked which other products and services…

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Wednesday, 26th October 2005

Branding in the Dot Oh era

I'm really hoping this 'Dot Oh' term takes off - kind of like Dot Com, ay? :-) Anyway, Paul Scrivens has written a great post on the value of branding in the Web 2.0 world. Scrivs wrote: "A major problem with this phase of the web that many people seem to miss isn't that companies don't have a business model, it's that they aren't doing a great…

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Food Fight!

Lots to eat today in Dot Oh Cafe. Here are some of the tasty tidbits that caught my eye as I perused the tech.memeorandum and Rojo menus: Google's smorgasbord classifieds service Google Base is eating the lunch of many a hungry 2.0 start-up. Here are some of the mouth-watering dishes in Google Buffet (aka Base): 1. Course Schedules 2. Events and…

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