Web 2.0

Need Google Apps on Your Desktop? Try GMDesk from Google

Source: initialm (WordPress)

Nevertheless, a new service called GMDesk, according to a report from Cybernet, leverages Adobe AIR to provide these Google Apps as desktop versions, with easy shortcut keys for toggling between the desktop and browser-based versions. In all, GMDesk supports Gmail, Google Calendar,...

Published 11 hours ago, found via web-20 « WordPress.com Tag Feed

Who Put the Google Earth in my Game?

Source: O'Reilly Radar

I was struck by how ingrained in our society this (relatively) new way of looking at our world has become. Google Earth is the most useful virtual world that I interact with on a regular basis and I doubt that I am the only one who feels that way. It is on its way to becoming its own gaming platform (...

Published 19 hours ago, found via O'Reilly Radar

Veoh Decision May Not Let Google Off the Hook

Source: CIO Today

 CA - EFF Legal Analyst Fred von Lohman said the ruling should be required reading for the executives of every Web 2.0 business that relies on user-generated ...

Published 20 hours ago, found via Google News

African NGOs Learn Web 2.0

Source: Global Voices Online

 MA - Participants learned how to organize email lists using Yahoo Groups, talk for free on Skype and Yahoo Messenger, upload photos to Flickr, and start their ...

Published 22 hours ago, found via Google News

A Letter to a Random Search Engine Visitor

Source: Jason Boom

I know Web 2.0 skills are hard to come by, just like computer hacking skills.I’m wondering where you went. Were there other Web 2.0 skill sites to visit? I’m checking now. I see now that I come up on the first page of Google for Web 2.0 ...

Published 23 hours ago, found via Google Blogs

Why Android Market will surpass Apple’s App Store and Microsoft’s ...

Source: TG Daily

 - AM enables Web 2.0 community features by default. Google has built the business around giving people tools to build and enable communities. ...

Published Fri, Aug 29, found via Google News

Microsoft Sets Sights on Europe With Shopping Site Buy

Source: GigaOM » Web

For Microsoft, the hope is that the deal will help boost its search business overseas. After the failed bid for Yahoo, Microsoft has been reeling around like a spurned lover trying desperately to fill the gap — with cash-back rebates for search engine users — while strategically looking f...

Published Fri, Aug 29, found via GigaOM » Web

With 'followers,' Blogger gets--surprise!--more social

Source: Webware.com

Follow that blog!(Credit: Google) But with its Google ownership, Blogger is tying the new following feature into some of its other properties, like Google Reader and the forthcoming Google Friend Connect. The "Blogs I'm Following" tab, for example, can be imported into Google Reader.

Published Fri, Aug 29, found via Webware.com