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September 2008 Archives

Monday, 29th September 2008

Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time, 2008 Edition

Last year we reviewed YouTube's 10 most popular videos. It's time to update that list and see what, if anything, has changed. Last year we concluded that 7 of the top 10 videos were music - with 5 of those being professional videos. That trend has continued, although there are now no amateur music videos in the top 10. There are 6 music videos this…

Richard MacManus comments

Gritty Entrepreneurs: Jigsaw, a Profitable Web 2.0 Venture

To kick off our new Gritty Entrepreneurs interview series, at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York we sat down with Jim Fowler, the Founder and CEO of Jigsaw, a business information and networking service that we noted in our recent review was a complement to LinkedIn rather than a competitor. As we sat sipping espresso in the Starbucks in the lobby, the…

Bernard Lunn comments

Microsoft Updates Hotmail: Faster Interface and More Storage

Microsoft is slowly releasing a new version Windows Live Hotmail this week, though, as LiveSide.net reports, many users are having problems with the new design and want Microsoft to revert back to the old layout. We have been looking at the new version of Hotmail for most of the morning and have not seen any problems with it so far. The new…

Frederic Lardinois comments

Publishing Services

AP: The Modern Newsroom Looks Like a Little RSS Reader

The 20th century news and stock ticker used to be one of the most archetypal images of newsrooms all around the world. It was timely and exciting, if a bit impersonal, for editors to watch the wires for breaking news from the big news syndicates and select stories to run in the local paper. That ticker doesn't print everything out any more…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Product Reviews

PopGist: Yahoo Search Results in Context

In the past, we have written extensively about the potential of BOSS, Yahoo's open search web services platform. BOSS is an open API that lets developers access and manipulate Yahoo's search results. A wide range of companies, including Hakia and Me.dium, are currently using it to power their own search engines. One of the more interesting…

Frederic Lardinois comments

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