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Monday, 31st July 2006

Web Apps Around The World

Business 2.0's latest print issue has a nice feature on Web 2.0 apps around the world. From Nooked in Ireland to Zoho Writer in India to Gnoos in Australia - it's an excellent overview of some of the web action happening outside of Silicon Valley. The Business 2.0 article isn't online yet, but you can view it via Olive ActiveMagazine (pg…

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Top Dutch Web 2.0 Apps

Following on from my post at the end of last week listing the top German web apps, R/WW reader Mark Schoondorp sent me a list of Dutch web apps. Mark himself is the designer of Wat vinden wij over (meaning 'What do we think of'' / 'What is your opinion on' / 'what do we find'). It's a social bookmarking site, which Mark says focuses on the user…

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Sunday, 30th July 2006

Visokio - Data Manipulation On The Web

So I promised to start profiling more innovative, boundary-pushing Web tools on R/WW. The problem with this strategy is that a lot of innovative tools are hard to grok - which means more work for me. What have I gotten myself into? :-) Recently Thomas Bate of British data visualisation company Visokio contacted me, to tell me about his company's…

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Saturday, 29th July 2006

RealNetworks lays down gauntlet to Microsoft's Zune

RealNetworks had their Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call on Thursday evening (PST) and the transcript from SeekingAlpha makes for interesting reading. The two main points that came out of it, from a product and market perspective, is that 1) RealNetworks is exhibiting very strong growth in the gaming market; and 2) they see Microsoft's Zune…

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The Ray Ozzie Experience

The text of Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie's speech at Thursday's Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2006, makes compelling reading. To me it sums up why we've moved far beyond the Web 2.0 trend and into something much deeper and richer. Web innovation, which is primarily what my blog explores, is no longer just about Flickr…

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