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  The Yahoo! System

  Interesting NY Times article about Yahoo!. Some key quotes:"The idea that human judgment can improve a search engine's automatic findings is hardly new. From the dawn of the Web's history...

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  Top Ten Web 2.0 Problems Amazon Mechanical Turk Can Solve For Me

  What is Amazon Mechanical Turk? It's a web service that enables you to "complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it."Amazon describes it thusly:...

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  International Web 2.0 Events

  The UK has its own Web 2.0 Conference on 11 November in Brighton, in the form of d.Construct:"d.Construct 2005 is the UKís first grassroots Web 2.0 conference. It is an...

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  Gen Y are Content Creators

  This what it's all about:"Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet could be considered Content Creators. They have created a blog or webpage, posted...

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  Attack of the Clones

  So the latest ruckus in tech.blogosphere is about Dave Winer's call to Clone the Google API (note the URL name). Robert Scoble wrote an enthusiastic post entitled Yahoo's new pretty...

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  Issues Facing Web 2.0 Today

  Dion Hinchcliffe has an excellent post outlining the top 10 issues for Web 2.0 today (an 11th was added in the comments by Paul Montgomery). Here's a summary of Dion's...

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  Microsoft Livens Up Web 2.0

  Summary: My Day 1 impressions of Windows/Office Live are positive and I think Microsoft is taking up the challenge of an increasingly Web-based software world, while at the same time...

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  Live.com is now live

  As part of the news this morning (my coverage here), Microsoft has released a website called live.com. It appears to be start.com under a new name - i.e. the RSS...

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  Microsoft Announces The Live Era

  Microsoft just announced its new Web-based Windows and 'software as a service' strategies. After first announcing the Xbox 360 will be released on Nov 22 in North America, Gates talked...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 24-30 Oct 2005

  This week: Microsoft's Web 2.0 strategy, Google Base, Yahoo! travel, Web 2.0 Humour, 2.0 Post of the Week.sponsored by:Microsoft's Web 2.0 StrategyThere's big news coming this week from Microsoft, on...

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  InfoWorld story on Microsoft unveiling hosted services next week

  I was quoted in an IDG InfoWorld story, entitled Gates, Ozzie seen unveiling hosted services next week:"Some prominent Microsoft watchers, such as Richard MacManus, also have suggested a hosted version...

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  Microsoft building a Web-based Office suite?

  My latest ZDNet column is a potential doozy:Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications....

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  Branding in the Dot Oh era

  I'm really hoping this 'Dot Oh' term takes off - kind of like Dot Com, ay? :-) Anyway, Paul Scrivens has written a great post on the value of branding...

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  Food Fight!

  Lots to eat today in Dot Oh Cafe. Here are some of the tasty tidbits that caught my eye as I perused the tech.memeorandum and Rojo menus:Google's smorgasbord classifieds serviceGoogle...

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  You want disruptive? Here’s disruptive…

  In today's ZDNet column, I review Internet TV start-up Brightcove:"Brightcove was presented at the Web 2.0 Conference and is what I would class as a disruptive Web 2.0 start-up -...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 17-23 Oct 2005

  This week: Anti-Web 2.0, Bubble Meme Map, Flock, Web Libraries, Techie Post of the Week - Ben Barren on Architecture Astronautssponsored by:Anti-Web 2.0This was the week when the Web 2.0...

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  Mainstreaming of Web 2.0

  While doing some research for a work project I'm doing currently, I came across this illuminating PEW report from January 2005, called Internet Evolution: A decade of adoption: How the...

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  Web 2.0 Naysaying reaches an all-time high (or is it low)

  Looks like the Web 2.0 Naysayers are starting to drown out those of us who've been preaching the 2.0 Gospel.Joel on Software, who has a lot of influence in the...

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  Rethinking Email

  Gmail Engineer Paul Buchheit has a lovely post in which he explains why he created Gmail for Google. He begins by noting that email has just turned 34 - only...

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  How Memeorandum tracks the mood of news

  Gabe Rivera's memeorandum got a great write-up in Wired News today. Also TechCrunch reported that memeorandum has a new feature, a news widget that bloggers can include on their site....