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Sunday, 23rd September 2007

Thanks Sponsors

A big thank you to our sponsors for supporting Read/WriteWeb. Wild Apricot offers Web-based Membership Software for clubs, associations and other non-profits. They recently released widgets, enabling users to embed online member directory, event registration etc. into any website. Wine Library TV is one of my favorite video blogs. Being a…

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Saturday, 22nd September 2007

Weekly Wrap-ups

Weekly Wrapup, 17-21 September 2007

Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Web News Yahoo! Drops $350m on Zimbra; an Open Source, Enterprise RIA The big news this week was Yahoo! buying open-source enterprise office vendor Zimbra for $350 million in cash…

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Is It Time To Retire the 'Social Graph?'

Yesterday, when talking with Richard and Marshall about Google's plans to open up many of their services that deal with personal and social information, I made this remark: "Also, as an aside, I'd like to express my severe dislike for the term 'social graph.'" I first remember hearing about the term "social graph" in May while Mark Zuckerberg…

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Friday, 21st September 2007

Google to Envelope All Knowledge on November 5th, 2007

Michael Arrington has convinced several high level sources to disclose discussion at a top secret Google meeting where the company discussed plans to release on November 5th a new set of APIs. Those APIs will make access to the data it holds fundamentally open to outside parties, starting with a limited number of Google applications and expanding…

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Zync: Making Local Search Personal

Zync, a Massachusetts-based startup, operates a local event recommendation engine based around the city of Boston. The site currently lists 30,000 events across 20,000 venues. And even though it only has 355 users, they have amassed almost 9500 ratings. According to Zync, their recommendation technology uses patent-pending algorithms to…

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