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WebWeb 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 26 Nov – 2 Dec 2005
Note: The Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up is back with a new publishing day (Fri) and a new format, a countdown of the Top Ten Web 2.0 issues or news stories...
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Yahoo flying under the radar
Great article from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, covering Yahoo's strategy. Interesting comparisions to Microsoft and Google, plus lots of stats to pore over for the number...
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RSS Everywhere II – but where is Google?
Last night Yahoo! announced they are integrating RSS into their web mail and alerts products. As Scott Gatz explained in an interview with PodTech: Yahoo's plan, which started in January...
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Botcasting – automated text-to-voice services
Ted Gilchrist pointed to a new text-to-voice service he's running called Botcast Network. He's created a special podcast feed for my blog, so you can regularly listen to my blog...
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Latest on Web browser market for PC and mobile
In my previous two ZDNet posts, I've been exploring the Web browser market. Here are brief highlights from those posts:Mobile Web browsers - Microsoft's downfall?: As we begin to use...
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Calacanis to Malik: How do you like them apples?
In an article entitled The Return of Monetized Eyeballs, Om Malik values BoingBoing at $34 million - calculated at $38 per unique monthly website visitor (the average purchase price per...
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Do Entrepreneurs Dream of Electric XML?
Thinking Outside the VC Box is a fantastic, almost Philip K. Dick-like, essay by an unnamed SOA Web Services Journal writer. It's on one of my favourite themes, the virtual...
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Top Mashups
ProgrammableWeb has released a list of 'popular' mashups, which John Musser calculated from a mix of click-throughs and user 'votes' based on a 1 to 5 scale rating system. Here...
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Admin: Upgrade Complete (and note about Weekly Wrap-Up)
I've upgraded my blog to Movable Type 3.2, in order to defeat some bugs and trackback spam that had infiltrated the previous installation. So apologies if you'd visited my site...
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Start-ups and International Talent
Dan Grossman has a thought-provoking post entitled Silicon Valley's Hiring War - And The Impact to Startups. He suggests that Start-ups will start looking outside the Valley for talent:"...I think...
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Web 2.0 Workgroup Update
Mike mentioned today that the Web 2.0 Workgroup that Mike, Fred Oliveira and I formed about a month and a half ago has grown to twenty blogs. We've also added...
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Blogs Tired, Bookmarks Wired?
Interesting little post from Jason Calacanis, who wrote:"TIRED: Subscribing to Fred's blog: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/WIRED: Subscribing to Fred's Del.icio.us feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/fredwilsonNote: On Bloglines Fred has 383 subscribers to his blog and 9...
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The Second Coming of Content and RSS Feeds
Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo has just posted what I think is a milestone post for RSS and Web 2.0: How feeds will change the way content is distributed, valued, and...
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Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 14-20 Nov 2005
This week: Explaining Web 2.0 to normal people, Google Base, Yahoo Shoposhere, Amazon tags, Hypertext and the next 15 years.Sponsor OpportunityThe Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up has had 3 excellent sponsors...
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Web 2.0 Montage
Serendipitously I came across a beautifully done multimedia montage of Web 2.0 on Flickr, by Leigh Blackall. The photos are stunning and Leigh has weaved Web 2.0 themes into all...
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YAW2D – Paul Graham on Web 2.0
YAW2D = Yet Another Web 2.0 Definition. But this time it comes from Paul Graham, whose every essay is treated like a tablet from Moses by the Slashdot crowd. Surprisingly,...
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My Silicon Valley Fortune Cookie
While pondering my Midblog Crisis, I remembered a fortune cookie I received during the spicy noodles dinner in Palo Alto on 12 October (when I was in the US for...
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Web 2.0 Design Principles – a Case Study
In the third and final part of my series of ZDNet columns about Yellowikis as a Web 2.0 case study, I look at some of the design principles that can...