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Content Variation An Essential Ingredient in Web 2 0

19 Jul 2008 22:56:00 PDT

Written by John Cow
As we hope we have been able to get across, one of the greatest things about using different “Web 2.0″ sites is the ability to own more then one result in the top 10 of Google with your content. The problem is with Google’s “duplicate content filters” and if you are using only one variation of the...

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Opinion: Duct Tape Not Included

19 Jul 2008 02:09:05 PDT

Written by Jany
Ideas need to be concrete enough to understand and digest. The example above probably makes sense to math majors and engineers, but I have no idea how tay^rolf has anything to do with "peanut butter, jelly time." The book has some lovely examples; mine comes from the 3G iPhone launch:

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Ajax with JSON

18 Jul 2008 21:58:20 PDT

Written by Pavithra
To display the result in a div var teacherdiv= document.getElementById("teacherdiv"); teacherdiv.innerHTML = showResult; } } } eval(xmlhttp.responseText); eval() invokes the JavaScript compiler. Since JSON is the subset of Javascript, any Javascript compiler is a JSON decoder. It w...

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O'Reilly Events on Dopplr

18 Jul 2008 03:24:05 PDT

Written by Brady Forrest
Here are the URLs for the next six O'Reilly conferences. OSCON - http://dplr.it/oscon08 EuroRails - http://dplr.it/eurorailsconf08 Web 2.0 Expo NYC - http://dplr.it/w2exponyc Web 2.0 Expo Europe - http://dplr.it/w2expoeurope Web 2.0 Summit - http://dplr.it/w2summit08 MoneyTech - http...

Original story at O'Reilly Radar .

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Guy Kawasaki's "Unfair Advantage" For Realtors: Create Your Writing Platform

17 Jul 2008 17:18:40 PDT

Written by deansguide
1. Blog- The most powerful writing tool for your "next generation" marketing campaign, lead generation, SEO tool, and exposure is the blog. Whether you like the idea or not, blogs are here to stay. First adopters will reap the search engine optimization benefits while those Realtors that r...

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Twitter buys Summize - should educators care?

16 Jul 2008 02:10:53 PDT

Written by Sylvia Martinez
Yesterday’s news brought a new Web 2.0 related announcement. Micro-blogging favorite Twitter has purchased Summize, a Twitter search engine. So while you might not care about Twitter, this particular bit of Web 2.0 business news is just the tip of the iceberg for the coming consolidation.

Original story at Generation YES .

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Web 2.0 news and blogs - July 20, 2008

20 Jul 2008 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Web 2.0 news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Our New Facebook Page -- by Glasford Paul Ustanny from web-20 « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Wow 2.0 Show 84, Geocaching is for you and your students! -- by Cheryl Oakes from Icerocket blog search: Web 2.0
• For normobs, Twitter simply isn’t on the radar — still -- by Ewan from Icerocket blog search: Web 2.0
• Looking For A Pro Web 2.0 Designer -- by PHP Freelance Jobs from Icerocket blog search: Web 2.0
• Ten Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes To Be a More Connected Health Professional -- by Lisa Neal Gualtieri from web-20 « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• 29. Wordpress.com and Web 2.0 -- by mitchellirons from web-20 « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Number 9 Technorati -- by dkzody from web-20 « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Influencing political change through blogging -- from News 8 Austin
• Revolutionizing Retail Space and Shopping Experience -- by smolarczyk from web-20 « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• From India... a trio of canny Web tools -- from Hindu

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WordPress updates to 2.6, adds Gears support

15 Jul 2008 16:40:00 PDT

Written by Josh Lowensohn
Another new feature that is long overdue is a built-in theme previewer, which will let you see a live preview of your blog using a selected theme. Previously you could only see what your existing content and widgets would look like with any theme by applying it over the one currently in use.

Original story at Webware.com .

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A Place to Aggregate Your Digital Self: FriendFeed: Brief Review

14 Jul 2008 07:45:39 PDT

Written by Angel
Have you ever wanted to send a person one URL that shows everything you are up to in the web 2.0 world? Ever wanted to see what your friends were up to, but they had way too many subscriptions to services like blogs, YouTube, Twitter, del.icio.us, etc.? Well now you can do these things with FriendF...

Original story at angelb (WordPress) .

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iPod Touch 2.0 and the cult of Apple

13 Jul 2008 21:47:11 PDT

Written by Sanjana Hattotuwa
Installing new apps is a cinch and I've already got the Apple Remote working with my iTunes library, which really is very nicely done. I'm in two minds about the new Facebook App. I loved the clean, fast and beautifully designed web based Facebook version for the iPhone / iPod Touch. The FB app i...

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Five Lessons From a Year of Blogging

13 Jul 2008 10:48:40 PDT

Written by Craig Stoltz
Entry titles are as important as content. Titles should be dead-clear. Web users are brutally impatient prowlers, unforgiving of ambiguity and unlikely to hang around to figure things out. But provocative works too. Three of my more inane items scored big because their titles promised som...

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Apple: What does the future have in App Store?

10 Jul 2008 08:02:00 PDT

Written by Melly Alazraki
Filed under: Products and services, Launches, Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Intel (INTC), Nokia Corp. (NOK), Research in Motion (RIMM), Palm Inc (PALM), iPhoneApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is opening its online App Store...

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1352 Campus Technology, web 2.0, July 2, 2008

03 Jul 2008 13:31:44 PDT

Written by octavioislas
Campus Technology Web 2.0 In May in San Francisco, experts from leading universities, libraries, and research institutions around the world met as part of an ongoing effort to address a pressing issue: archiving the world's history, right up to today.

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Enterprise 2.0 Versus Reality

02 Jul 2008 18:55:32 PDT

Written by Pie
I was reading a post from James on implementing some Social Networking tools within a large Enterprise, Even more untold perspectives on social networking within large enterprises. It was an interesting post as it reflected, from a different angle, an issue that I have had to deal with re...

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State of Ajax for June 2008: Apple flexes Open Web muscles

01 Jul 2008 15:07:07 PDT

Written by Dion Almaer
Gears, AIR, and more Gears 0.3 Released, and Google I/O videos on Ajax related content availableFrizone: JavaScript dev, test, and deployment environmentFrank Sinatra, Flash, and Ajax: Deckmyplace.comflXHR: Flash based XHR from flensedSEO and RIA get closer together with Flash ind...

Original story at Ajaxian .

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The next Facebook is LinkedIn

28 Jun 2008 09:00:00 PDT

Written by Georges Yared
Facebook has over 80 million users including a new Facebook profile for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Facebook attained Wall Street relevancy last year when Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) agreed to pay the unheard of $246 million for a 1.6% ownership stake. That October 24, 20...

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Review: IDC Web 2.0 Digital Marketplace Conference Singapore

24 Jun 2008 20:40:18 PDT

Written by aplink
Next up was Brad Garlinghouse SVP Communications & Community, Yahoo - Yahoo were the diamond sponsor for the event and Brad discussed the over whelming noise that social media presents (don't i know it) Of course the solution is YAHOO and how Yahoo is redefining email and services...

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Opinion: How the intelligent web can plan the perfect holiday

23 Jun 2008 17:05:02 PDT

Semantic Web technology uses data portability to channel disparate data into one application. For example, a friend of a friend on a social networking site like Facebook might have very similar interests to you and has already travelled to Cuba, where you are planning to go this summer.

Original story at Silicon Republic .

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Data on the Web: VGChartz vs. NPD

17 Jun 2008 01:13:42 PDT

Written by Robert Passarella
It has to drive NPD nuts that a site like VGChartz can create a presence and provide high quality information with a completely different business model. I am sure in the NPD mindset, the thought of an outsider competing with them in this space was completely unanticipated. This was a theme t...

Original story at O'Reilly Radar .

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Opinion: Everybody must get Flocked

16 Jun 2008 17:10:00 PDT

Written by slim
Hey you gotta check out Flock. It's maintained on Firefox core (check out the 2.0 beta - based on FF3 which comes out tomorrow) so it's great browser technology - but the added social networking functionality is inspired and quite awesome. I hereby declare Flock to be the first truly Web 2.0 bro...

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Opinion: Government as platform vs Government as Web Publisher

11 Jun 2008 08:09:24 PDT

Written by Peter
Image source: Unhindered by Talent on Flickr) But to suggest that Govt should get out of the Web business altogether is absurd. Other reporting on this can be found here, here, here and here. (Image source: Unhindered by Talent on Flickr) My trusty Google Alerts on all things Govt 2.0 have

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Opinion: I love Ariel Hyatt and Cyber PR: Goddess of music PR 2.0

07 Jun 2008 19:28:23 PDT

Written by Matt Turner
Our Affordable Music Publicity & Internet Music Promotion Campaigns place you on Internet Radio Stations, Social Networking Sites, Podcasts, Online Magazines, Blogs, Vlogs, Audioblogs, Zines, Music Directories, Video Sites & Lifestyle Sites. We also handle tour publici...

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Web 2.0 How-To Design Style Guide

27 May 2008 05:06:00 PDT

Written by Matt
Web Design From Scratch has a great article that I’ve read a few times in the past, and recommend for anyone who does more than just edit prefab templates for their website. If you make actual designs from scratch (I’m not sure if that was a pun exactly, but it was accidental…), then you should...

Original story at Web 2.0 .

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Opinion: The Growth of Open APIs: More Evidence That Web Services Drive Network Effects

21 May 2008 02:59:00 PDT

Written by Dion Hinchcliffe
Figure 2: As new sites offer APIs closer to initial launch, stronger network effects can form earlier Sidebar: An approach called Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) is an emerging best practice method for turning next-generation Web 2.0 applications into platforms.

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Opinion: Web 2.0's Real Secret Sauce: Network Effects

15 Jul 2006 12:37:00 PDT

I wrote recently about the trend of Web 2.0 reductionism that is helping us get to Web 2.0 fundamentals and helping us understand why it's such a game changer. If you're not really sure about all of this, however, you have only to look at the example of MySpace. MySpace is as pure a Web 2.0 play as y...

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Social-Mail, Byoms and more: This week's eHub round up

02 Jun 2006 12:24:00 PDT

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick
Filed under: companies, web 2.0"I like your roundups of eHub!" says Emily Chang in an email. All the more reason to keep doing the darned things. Emily Chang's eHub is a great resource for learning about new or newly highlighted Web 2.0 services and products, but it can be overwhelming. In th...

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