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  Midblog Crisis

  Forgive me, it's time for an introspective blog post. Lately I feel I've been in a bit of a blog slump with Read/WriteWeb. My numbers are still good, but I'm...

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  Gawker Strikes Deal With Yahoo

  In another great sign for blogs becoming a mainstream news and entertainment source, Nick Denton's blogging empire has struck a distribution deal with Internet media giant Yahoo. Reuters reported:"Yahoo said...

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  Yellowikis – A Case Study of a Web 2.0 Business

  In my ZDNet blog, I've published the first in a 3-part Case Study of a Web 2.0 business. Yellowikis is an open business listings site that has the potential to...

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  Yahoo Shoposphere launches – MeCommerce

  TechCrunch has the scoop about Yahoo's new e-commerce web app, Yahoo! Shoposphere. Mike's taken it for a test run already and here's his description:"Yahoo is making a major push into...

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  Ben Crunches the Web 2.0 Numbers

  The Hard Man of 2.0, Ben Barren, takes out his nutcracker and starts crunching the numbers of Internet companies. Wielding financial methodologies, Ben intends to get some REAL analysis happening...

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  Amazon Does Tagging

  Alan Taylor and Anil Dash report that Amazon is rolling out tags in a big way. In a discussion board message, Amazonian Blake Scholl announced that 50% of Amazon customers...

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  The World’s Top Websites – Yahoo number 1, China moving up

  In my ZDNet column today I took a look at the top websites in the world according to Alexa. You might be surprised by what I found. Here is the...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 7 – 13 Nov 2005

  This week: International Web 2.0, Mainstream Media Meltdown, Microsoft "Leaked" docs, Web 2.0 poster children rebel, 2.0 Post of the Week - samy conquers myspace.sponsored by:Web 2.0 - Rockin' All...

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  The Web 2.0 Conspiracy – my cover blown

  Irina Slutsky of Geek Entertainment TV interviewed Ryan and Eran of supr.c.ilio.us about Web 2.0 at their launch party last night. Unfortunately they let slip about the Web 2.0 Conspiracy...

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  Who are the Big Internet Companies in 2005?

  Dave Winer points to my post about Portals 2.0 and questions if there are really only 3 powerful Internet companies:"Richard MacManus talks about The Big 3, and there is a...

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  Melbourne Long Tail BBQ and podcast

  Last night my friends in Melbourne held a Long Tail BBQ, as part of the worldwide Long Tail Camp. Seeing as I live across the ditch in New Zealand, I...

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  Portals 2.0 flesh out their product lines

  Tristan Louis has compiled some excellent comparison charts of products across the Big 4 Internet companies - Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL [nb: Tristan's site was down when I checked,...

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  Is Web 2.0 a native language to the Chinese?

  Rebecca MacKinnon has been at the Chinese Blogger Conference and has come away from it wondering if "Web2.0 is potentially a very Chinese thing." She explained:"One of the most important...

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  Ray Ozzie on the Web Office

  As part of my analysis of the Microsoft "Internet Services" memos, in ZDNet I dug into the details of what Ray Ozzie wrote about Office Live:"Ray Ozzie's memo indicates that...

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  Anytown Marketplace – Craigslist for any city

  RememberNing.com, the service for building and using social applications? I've been waiting for a really interesting app to come out of that - and this may be it. Anytown Marketplace...

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  Microsoft Leaked Docs + Ballmer on Xbox and TV business

  Dave Winer has published a leaked email from Bill Gates and memo from Ray Ozzie. This comes from a source within Microsoft, who Dave Winer won't name.In Gates' email, he...

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  Ah, the Boom and Bust – those were the days…

  The dotcom boom and bust has been voted the most influential Internet moment of the past 10 years, by organisers of the annual Webby Awards:"Launched by Netscape's IPO in 1995,...

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  China Web2.0 Review

  Here's a site to keep an eye on - an English language blog about Web 2.0 in China:"China Web2.0 Review is a blog dedicated to track and review web2.0 development...

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  Just Say No To Web 2.0

  Flock has been getting a lot of flack from certain quarters. Mostly they're being (unfairly) tagged as a kind of symbol of the so-called Web 2.0 bubble. I've been dismayed...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 31 Oct – 6 Nov 2005

  This week: Microsoft Live, Flash Maps and the Mechanical Turk, Web 2.0 meet-ups all over the world, 2.0 Blog of the Week - Supr.c.ilio.us.sponsored by:Microsoft Live wrap-upThe big news of...