Home del.icio.us 1.5M users, Amazon Q4, Digg’s War on Gaming, WSJ on Start Pages, Web Profile Aggregators

del.icio.us 1.5M users, Amazon Q4, Digg’s War on Gaming, WSJ on Start Pages, Web Profile Aggregators

A summary of the main Web Tech news today…

del.icio.us now
has 1.5 million users
, according to the official blog; Also talks about doing “more
meaningful joint development work” with its parent company Yahoo, including re-doing the
UI.


Amazon Q4 Announcements; sales up 34% including “for the first time, non-Media dollar
growth [e.g. electronics] exceeded Media dollar growth”; also interesting notes about
endless.com, their experimental shoe and handbag website, and a 55%
increase in developers registered to use Amazon Web Services (now over 220,000
developers). See also ZDNet’s
analysis
.

Digg continues the War On Gaming; Kevin
Rose says they are removing the Top Diggers list and are also aiming to improve social
networking via interests (i.e. topics).


WSJ profiles Netvibes, Pageflakes
; Walt Mossberg concludes that “Netvibes — and
competitors like Pageflakes — will give My Yahoo a run for its money. They provide an
easy way to cut through the clutter of information that confronts us all.” It’ll be
interesting to see if Yahoo develops its own personalized start page, or whether they’ll
acquire Netvibes or Pageflakes…

The Web Profile
Aggregators
; Frank Gruber has a great post outlining all the Web identity aggregators
– and there are a lot of them! Frank recommends Spokeo, but he has good things to say
about most of them.

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