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  6-Figure Blogging

  Darren Rowse (who earns nearly US$200k a year from blogging) has published an interview with fellow "six figure blogger" The Manolo. Here's how The Manolo, who blogs about shoes, makes...

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  Gmail/Google backlash

  Yahoo Mail, the beta Web-based email program, is better than Gmail - so says the WSJ's Walt Mossberg. He notes:"The new Yahoo Mail is far superior to Gmail. Yahoo more...

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  FeedDigest on the way up

  Bud Gibson has a nice profile of FeedDigest, an RSS remix service created by Peter Cooper that I've had my eye on for a while. FeedDigest lets users "mix, filter...

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  Web 2.0 Meme Map

  Tim O'Reilly has posted a meme map of Web 2.0, from the "What is Web 2.0?" brainstorming session at FOO Camp 2005. Hat-tip Josh for the link. It's kind of...

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  Feedburner’s Network Effects

  Feedburner's released more stats to celebrate reaching 100,000 managed feeds. They highlight some impressive growth in the number of subscribers to Feedburner feeds - over 4.2 million subscribers per day...

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  The Future of Web Apps and Services, circa 2001

  I love reading old books about the Web and Internet. I'm in the middle of Stewart Brand's classic book from the 80's, The Media Lab, right now. Anyway I came...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 12-18 Sep 2005

  sponsored by:This week: eBay-Skype: Web 2.0 Ramifications, The Real World - Katrina response, Microsoft PDC - Start.com extended, Yahoo Shopping API and Shopify, New apps on the block.eBay-Skype: Web 2.0 RamificationsEarly...

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  WeboMania 2006: Macho Man Microsoft vs Google the Giant

  Summary: 2006 may well be Microsoft's year, with upgrades to its flagship Vista OS and Office 12 products. But only if Google lets it be their rival's year. We don't...

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  The danger of running a remix service

  Populicio.us was a service that used data from social bookmarking site del.icio.us, to create a site with enhanced statistics and a better variety of 'popular' links. However the Populicio.us service...

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  BlogBridge topic expert on Web 2.0

  Part of my duties as the self-proclaimed Father of Web 2.0 is to help spread the word and get people interested in Web 2.0. BlogBridge has just published a list...

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  Fleshing out Web 2.0

  A new blog called Web Service Finder has done a Map of the Web 2.0 World and opened it up for editing on a Wiki. This is by the same...

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  Google Blog Search Sucks

  Why? Because they've only indexed my blog up till 26 May 2005! What's up with that?!SearchEngineWatch has a good summary of opinions in the blogosphere. Put me down as 'Underwhelmed'...

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  RSS Aggregators, commoditization and value-add

  Over on my ZDNet blog I've written a couple of posts that extend my analysis of The RSS Space. In the first post I explained the RSS Space categorization some...

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  New-look Memeorandum launched

  I've been one of the beta testers of a brilliant new blog news service over the past 2-3 months - and today it's gone live. tech.memeorandum is the brainchild of...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 5-11 Sep 2005

  sponsored by:This week: Microsoft's Web 2.0 platform, Rich Clients, Acquisitions, Web 2.0 in The Real World, Techie Post of the week - Web Development Trends for 2006.Microsoft's Web 2.0 platform...

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  Grokking BBC Online and Web 2.0 media business models

  James MacAonghus from Aqute is writing a series of posts analysing BBC Online, which I highly recommend you check out. In Part 1 James wrote that BBC's online reach has...

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  Microsoft’s Web platform and why Windows devices remain key

  That's the title of my latest post on ZDNet. I'm pointing to it here because Bloglines is for some reason not fetching the Web 2.0 Explorer feed, so the 56...

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  Web 2.0 Stereotypes

  Deja vu, is there a glitch in the Web 2.0 Matrix? Phil Pearson has noticed it:"OK guys, this is going too far. Not ALL of the following are required for...

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  Book deal and new ZDNet blog

  A couple of weeks ago I began my new life as a full-time freelance Web Analyst and Writer. One of the things I'll be doing is co-writing a book for...

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  The RSS Space defined

  I recently finished a report on 'The RSS Space' for a client. In it I mapped out the current RSS vendor landscape, building on a blog post that Brad Feld...