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Wednesday, 28th November 2007

Yahoo! To Take Web Widgets to the Desktop

Yahoo! tonight announced the release of the latest version of the Yahoo! Widgets platform, version 4.5. For developers, the platform includes a range of new features, including the ability to use video, widgets for spreading your widgets, and better security disclosures. But the single most important new feature in this release is a…

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User Centric Identity: A Call To Action

I've been thinking a lot about user centric identity over the last few weeks. One of the 5 Big Themes from the Defrag Conference was the importance of user centric identity. As mentioned in that post, we ended up having one of the leading thinkers in this area, Kaliya Hamlin (a.k.a. Identity Woman) on an episode of Read/WriteTalk. Early in the…

Sean Ammirati comments

Business Lessons from Kiva

We've written about San Francisco-based Kiva.org, a not-for-profit organization that arranges interest-free microloans to entrepreneurs in developing nations, a couple of times before (here and here). Kiva has been a massive success story in the non-profit web space. It has now funded over 18,000 loans from over 123,000 lenders totaling about…

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NASDAQ Internet Index - No Microsoft, News Corp?

Yesterday we noted the launch of a new Nasdaq stock market index tracking only Internet companies, called the NASDAQ Internet Index. The index (^QNET) will track a diverse range of companies covering "Internet access providers, Internet search engines, web hosting, website design, and Internet retail commerce." The list is now available (thanks…

Richard MacManus comments

Afrigator: The Best of African Social Media, in Real Time

African social media aggregator Afrigator held a launch party in Johannesburg last night and unveiled the beta of the team's beautiful new website. Several thousand African blogs, podcasts and videos are already indexed and viewable. The site offers services for both readers and content producers. Visitors to the site can sift through…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

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