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December 2005 Archives

Saturday, 17th December 2005

Web 2.0 is dead. R.I.P.

I've had enough of the hype. I've had enough of cynicism. I've had enough of hate blogs. The nail in the coffin was this post on ZDNet, by Russell Shaw. The thing is, I agree with Russell. The term 'Web 2.0' is distracting from the real value going on in the Web right now. Read/WriteWeb will be focusing on more media-related web technology in…

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Ben's Top Ten 2006 Features to Flip

Ben Barren's written an excellent series of posts about his favorite features to flip. Here's his top ten: #1 - Podcasting Ratings #2 - Better Blogging Tools #3 - MySpace meets Linkedin #4 - Non-Text RSS Reader #5 - RSS Search/Reader Attention Glue #6 - Images for Adsense #7 - Podcasting Creation Tool #8 - Enterprise Vanity Search #9 - Blog/RSS…

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee blogs

The inventor of the World Wide Web is now blogging: "In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information. It seemed evident that it should be a space in which anyone could be creative, to which anyone could contribute. The first browser was actually a browser/editor, which allowed one to edit any page, and…

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Weekly Wrap-ups

Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 10 - 16 Dec 2005

Here's the Top Ten web technology and new media memes, issues or news stories of the past week. 1. Yahoo buys del.icio.us. Yahoo! continues its buying spree of cool Web app companies, after also buying Flickr and konfabulator this year. Bubblegeneration had a nice summary: "Yahoo, I think, is rolling up social plays so it can basically do what…

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Thursday, 15th December 2005

Web Development

Yahoo opens Javascript Developer Center

Toni Schneider, who runs the Yahoo Developer Network, just announced the addition of JSON support for various Yahoo APIs and a new Javascript Developer Center. This is designed for people who "eat, sleep and breathe JavaScript" :-0. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. According to the Wikipedia entry, JSON's simplicity has "resulted in…

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