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Wednesday, 22nd March 2006

Mobile web applications - do they need the browser?

by Ajit Jaokar (Richard's Note: Ajit is the second of my guest bloggers on Read/WriteWeb and he will be writing on Mobile Web 2.0 and digital convergence. Ajit runs a book publishing company called futuretext, which specializes in these topics. He also chairs Oxford university's next generation…

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Tuesday, 21st March 2006

5 copies of 37Signals' Getting Real book to give away

Web design firm 37Signals has kindly given me 5 copies of their 171-page PDF book, Getting Real, to give away. Retailing for $19 on the 37Signals website, the book is sub-titled 'The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application'. Given that I named 37Signals my Best Web LittleCo of 2005, I think it's a must-read for Web 2.0…

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Microcontent Design, Part 1

This is the first post in a series in which I will explore microcontent design. "...content will be more important than its container in this next phase. That's a big shift for old media to come to grips with. Killer apps, such as search, RSS and video-capture software such as Tivo -- to name just a few -- have begun to unlock content from any…

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Monday, 20th March 2006

You know you've hit the big time when...

...you have lunch with The President, er I mean Bill Gates. Mike Arrington as snapped by Robert Scoble:

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AOL's New Module Playground

AOL has just released a new site called I Am Alpha, which is their version of Yahoo! Widgets or Microsoft Gadgets. Google has modules and all the smaller players have similar widget featuresets - PageFlakes calls them "flakes" and Goowy calls them minis. All of these things are basically little web apps that can be integrated into your desktop or a…

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