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May 2006 Archives

Wednesday, 31st May 2006

New Ask.com blog search and Bloglines upgrade (but no new UI)

Ask.com is releasing a new blog search feature on their search engine, as well as integrating search more into their leading web-based RSS Reader Bloglines. You'll recall that Ask.com (or Ask Jeeves as it was known then) acquired Bloglines in February 2005 - and ever since then a lot of us have been waiting for Ask.com functionality to…

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The Google of Mobile Search

Business 2.0 has an interesting write-up today on contenders in the mobile phone search industry. They point out that the Mobile Web is still a nascent technology. Well, to be frank it's in the middle of a power struggle between telcos and standards bodies - which doesn't help us users very much in the short-term. But on the other hand, growing…

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Tuesday, 30th May 2006

Macromedia's Kiwi Project is a tribute to me

Spotted on the blogosphere (via Ryan Stewart): Macromedia's The Kiwi Project, which is about creating read/write web components for Flex. From the intro post: "With the rising interest in AJAX and RIAs, it became important for us to understand how to empower our Flex environment to create read/write web applications. This means developing Flex…

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Monday, 29th May 2006

Worldwide Internet Penetration is just 15%

According to the Miniwatts Marketing Group's Internet Usage and World Population Statistics (last updated March 31, 2006), worldwide Internet penetration is only 15.7%! So much for the World Wide Web... this is indeed sobering stuff for those of us obsessed with 'web 2.0' technology. Here's the main table of stats: WORLD INTERNET…

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Sunday, 28th May 2006

Mini apps - Bitty Browser and Wampad

I've come across two nifty apps recently that demonstrate a couple of neat things: 1) mobile web utility, and 2) integration with other web services. Both of those things are becoming increasingly important on the Web. The first app is called Bitty Browser and you may've come across it recently on other blogs. It's described by developer Scott…

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