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January 2007 Archives

Wednesday, 31st January 2007

Big 3 on Censorship, Yahoo Brand Universe, Google Q4 Earnings, comScore Top Web Properties Dec 06

Some interesting Web Tech news out today... - Web giants ask for feds' help on censorship; mostly relating to US Big Internet Companies (Goog, MS and Y!) trying to do business in China, although this CNET report suggests that about 25 countries around the world are currently engaged in Internet filtering. - Yahoo Planning to Add 100 Web Sites…

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55% Of People Regularly or Always Fake Their Web Identity

Our current poll has been causing a bit of water cooler discussion amongst the Read/WriteWeb authors. The question we're asking in the poll is: in your current Web activities where an identity is required (i.e. you can't be anonymous) do you ever fake all or part of your identity? After 511 votes so far, an astonishing 55% of respondents say they…

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Teapotters Wants To Be The YouTube of 3D

A new "3D community" has just been launched, with the unusual name of Teapotters. The name comes from 3D pioneer Martin Newell, who created the first free 3D model in 1974 - a teapot model. The site Teapotters.com aims to popularize 3D displays and sharing across the Web - websites, social networks, blogs and more - via a "3D widget". The email…

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Tuesday, 30th January 2007

Web War Not Won Yet

In my previous post, I noted how the new Gmail/Google Docs & Spreadsheet integration feature threatens Microsoft. There's also some high level discussion going on in the tech sphere about how Microsoft's continued loss of search market share and confusion over the Live branding means they are losing the "web war". Infamous Dot Com analyst…

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How Google's Gmail / Docs & Spreadsheets Integration Directly Targets Microsoft

On Monday Google released a relatively minor, but useful, feature. It's worth examining a bit more closely, because it's yet another signal that Google is quietly pecking away at Microsoft's lunch in office software. Now I know that Microsoft Office has a lot of advanced functionality that the online office apps don't have, but hear me…

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