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  Will mainstream people flock to Flock?

  By now most of you know that Flock, a trendy new Mozilla-based "social web browser", has gone live. Because it's said to be a quintessential Web 2.0 application, I feel...

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  The Great Disruptive Start-Ups Search

  In my ZDNet blog, Web 2.0 Explorer, I've launched an Indiana Jones-like quest to find the Great Disruptive Web 2.0 Start-Ups of our era. I'm on the hunt for two...

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  Publishers sue Google – more evidence of 20th Century Media Delusion

  The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has filed a lawsuit against Google "over its plans to digitally copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners". I liked...

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  I am Jessica Alba

  Ben Barren's posts just keep getting better and better. Today he ponders the question: What Connects Richard MacManus + Jessica Alba?. He writes:"we may need a "Post-Valley Intervention" - Since...

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  There is no cult of the amateur, Mr Carr

  Nicholas Carr, a real journalist, has a blog post that argues that Web 2.0 is amoral. That's a relatively uninteresting academic argument though. Of more practical import, is his rage...

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  Web 2.0 Worm Pandemic Threatens Internet

  Today The Register's Andrew Orlowski gleefully reported the existence of the first "Web 2.0 worm". Wrote our man in San Francisco: "It's been a rough weekend for Tomorrow's People. A...

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  Web 2.0 companies eclipsing 1.0 companies

  Microsoft Emerging Business Team member Don Dodge has another thought-provoking post on Internet business. Don notes how so many innovative companies who were market leaders in the 90's have been...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 10-16 Oct 2005

  This week: Geeks being creative, Yahoo! RSS research, Reading Lists, Making money with Mash-Ups, Techie Post of the Week - Dave Winer on Nerd TVsponsored by:Geeks being creativeI'm now back...

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  See you soon Silicon Valley!

  This'll be my last post from Silicon Valley for a while. I've been here for two full weeks and I've had a fantastic time! I owe a huge debt of...

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  More Web 2.0 Workgroup members

  As TechCrunch reported, two more resources have been added to our nascent Web 2.0 Workgroup. Mike wrote:"Podtech.net is a very popular podcast site hosted by John Furrier that is redefining...

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  craigslists gets heavy with Oodle

  Uber classifieds site craiglisthas requested that Oodle, a classifieds 'meta' search engine, refrain from scraping its content. This has the potential to be the first high-profile case of a mash-up...

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  Web 2.0 Cultural Homogeneity and Class Systems

  Whether you love or hate the Web 2.0 meme, you have to admit it's gained a lot of traction in both tech and business circles. Now we're beginning to see...

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  Read/WriteWeb mashed up

  This is the best thing I've written in ages... thanks to Saurier Duval for doing a mash-up of my blog.Some choice extracts:"The stats they released today indicate theyíre well on...

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  Microserfs

  For the record, I have actually read Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland. Indeed just over a year ago I wrote on my blog that Microserfs is my favourite Douglas Coupland book....

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  Re-organizing the news

  Mike Arrington has another Ode to Memeorandum on Techcrunch. I'm a big fan of tech.memeorandum too and it's changing the way I read blogs and catch up with the latest...

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  Two-Way Web joins Web 2.0 Workgroup – spicy noodles celebration follows

  The Web 2.0 Workgroup has expanded to 4 blogs (and more to come!), with the addition of Dave Winer's Two-Way Web blog. This is awesome news, because the Two-Way Web...

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  Web 2.0: Land of Opportunity, or Land of Absurdity?

  I'm sensing a backlash about the rising VC interest in Web 2.0. Mike Rundle takes aim at Flock in his post subtitled "The Leaning Tower of Buzz". He thinks Flock...

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  Acquisitions 101

  To all those Web 2.0 companies looking to get acquired by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! or eBay, Don Dodge has handily compiled a list of tips. Don works on the Microsoft...

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  Mash-ups Best Practice and Business Models

  The necessary components of a mash-up according to the panelists are AJAX or a similar client-side technology, APIs in the backend (or RSS and/or scraping if need be - although...

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  Yahoo! starts rolling out user-generated content to the masses

  Yahoo! announced two major products this week: a podcasting service and then blog search integrated with Yahoo! News Search. Both of these products are outputs of Yahoo!'s strategy to introduce...