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GovFresh is a great new web service which aggregates live feeds of official news from U.S. Government Twitter accounts, YouTube channels, RSS feeds, Facebook pages, Flickr photostreams and more, all in one place. It is one of a new class of interactive Government 2.0 services, portals, and tools – many of them just launching in 2009 – which have the potential of revolutionizing the way citizens get and share information about their government.  (I mention several others below.) At a time w...   [read the full post]

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7 hours ago

 

Rate Michael Jackson’s Memorial: The Biggest Web Event in History?

Original at Mashable! external link    7 hours ago

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By Ben Parr Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, ustream Tags: jackson memorial, justin.tv, michael jackson, ustream There will be a free live stream on the Internet available to all. Details on how the stream will be distributed are currently unavailable Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, ustream

Rate I want to leave Goodreads, 'cause it's a mess

Original at sharpietaboo (WordPress) external link    8 hours ago

By Cassandra I currently have high hopes for Bookrabbit, which is gearing up to relaunch. The blog is downright pretty, and today there was a post giving a sneak peak at the site’s re-design. It looks promising enough for me to up and leave Goodreads.

Rate Twitter Better: 20 Ways to Filter Your Tweets

Original at Mashable! external link    10 hours ago

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By Josh Catone Another full web-based client that includes keyword filtering is Mixero, which is in private beta. For a complete collection of Twitter resources, check out The Twitter Guide Book, Mashable’s hub for all things Twitter. Another full web-based client that includes keyword filtering is...

This Week

 

Rate Google Blog Search Gets More Like Other Google Search Tools

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Jul 2

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By Adam Ostrow Google Blog Search has just added a few features that users of other Google services are likely familiar with. Google Blog Search has just added a few features that users of other Google services are likely familiar with. Reviews: Google

Rate Big Question: What Should Learning Professionals Know Today?

Original at nkilkenny (WordPress) external link    Thu, Jul 2

By nkilkenny Valuing and working with company and organization leaders to build a “Culture of Learning” or “Learning Organization” via Peter Senge’s Model. Forget being able to launch the next best thing in social networking or Learning 2.0. If this is not a huge part of your company or organization’s m...

Rate Bing Includes Tweets With Search Results (For Famous People)

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, Jul 1

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By Adam Ostrow This feature would seem to have fairly limited appeal – after all, most famous people simply use their own name as their Twitter handle, or you can quickly find it using Twitter’s existing search tools (or, Google). Nonetheless, it’s the first in what will likely be many big announcements...

Rate Opinion: Contemplation: How Much of the Web 2.0 is too Much of the Web 2.0

Original at generallordisimo.com external link    Wed, Jul 1

By Nathaniel I was thinking about this in regards to Twitter earlier today.  I use Twitter and in general find a degree of enjoyment in said use.  Ultimately though, Twitter is not a necessity in my life, because it really has failed to offer much more than a look at brief snippets of other people’s lives as...

Rate 6rounds Launches Video Communication Platform With Several Layers Of FunVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at TechCrunch external link    Tue, Jun 30

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By Robin Wauters 6rounds is not just a mere destination site, and wants to enable users to interact socially in real-time regardless of what their favorite social network is. The platform comes with an open API and can easily be integrated into third-party websites or services – starting with a Facebook o...

Rate Social Browser Extension Yoono Adds OneRiot’s Real-Time Search Engine

Original at TechCrunch external link    Mon, Jun 29

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By Robin Wauters I’ve been trying it out for a couple of hours now, and I have to say I’d already miss it if it were gone from my Firefox browser (which, admittedly, I use less and less thanks to Google Chrome). Yoono is essentially a browser sidebar that aggregates and centralizes your online profiles, inclu...

Past Two Weeks

 

Rate The New Marketing Challenge: Mastering Perpetual Beta

Original at collective-thinking.com external link    Fri, Jun 26

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By dennisr61684 Last week, a post on iMedia Connection with the incindiary headline “Why Twitter Will Soon Become Obsolete” , caused a bit of a stir. Jason Clark, a creative director at VIA Studio, made a rather compelling argument that despite the hype surrounding this platform, people shouldn’t cons...

Rate Obvious Win: YouTube Launches a Movie Trailers PageVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Jun 25

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By Adam Ostrow It’s no mystery that despite its user-generated content roots, much of the most popular content on YouTube is professionally produced. Movie trailers are no exception, and now the world’s top video sharing site has finally organized them in one convenient location. Reviews: YouTube

Rate Opinion: Dunkin’ Run Automates Your Coffee Breaks on the Web and iPhone

Original at Mashable! external link    Mon, Jun 22

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By Jennifer Van Grove More from Mashable on Brands and Social Media - Presenting: 10 of the Smartest Big Brands in Social Media Why Big Brands Struggle With Social Media More from Mashable on Brands and Social Media Why Big Brands Struggle With Social Media Reviews: Facebook

Past Month

 

Rate Podcast: Michael Zimmer, "The Faustian Bargain with Web 2.0", First Monday, 2008/04

Original at daviding (WordPress) external link    Thu, Jun 18

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By daviding Special editor Michael Zimmer discusses “Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0” — getting behind the hype and taking stock of Web 2.0’s impact on users like you. First Monday Podcast Archive MP3 audio We don’t quite have enough experience with Web 2.0 to understand the downsides as well as upsi

Rate Google Books 2.0: Smarter Search and Easy Embeds

Original at Mashable! external link    Thu, Jun 18

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By Ben Parr Overall, it’s a large collection of small feature upgrades that enhance the user experience. And user experience is one thing Google understands very well. With today’s update, books have become even more accessible. Reviews: Google, YouTube

Rate Opinion: Me-me-me, social media! (or Web 2.0 becomes Me 2.0)

Original at angryafrican (WordPress) external link    Tue, Jun 16

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By angryafrican Me 2.0: Count your followers... It remains true to Web 2.0. It becomes Me 2.0. We becomes me. Web 2.0 is turning us into Me 2.0. It’s not social media. It’s self media 1.0. Me 2.0: Count your followers... Social media? Web 2.0? This idea that the web will facilitate commun

Rate Opinion: Microeconomics of the Consumer Web

Original at GigaOM external link    Sun, Jun 14    2 related articles

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By Mike Speiser According to a recent Morgan Stanley research report, Google generated 11.3 billion paid leads in the first quarter of 2009; according to a recent blog post from Yahoo, that company generates 180 billion page views per month. Let’s assume that all of these pages have one display ad (exclud...

Rate Web 2.0 how-to design style guide

Original at Web 2.0 Compiled external link    Sat, Jun 13    6 related articles

Rate Do Facebook Vanity URLs Equals Kill Twitter Vol. 2?

Original at GigaOM external link    Sat, Jun 13

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By Om Malik Some have viewed this move towards vanity URLs as a way for Facebook to get more search engine juice. In reality it might be Facebook’s next attack on Twitter. Facebook earlier this year launched the status updates. With vanity URL, they are now getting into the name space business, somethin...

May of 2009

 

Rate Google Web Elements: Add YouTube News and Google Comments to Your Blog

Original at Mashable! external link    Wed, May 27

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By Josh Catone While many of the widgets offered on the Web Elements page are old news, having them all in one place is helpful. Who knew, for example, that you could add a Google News widget from the AJAX Search API page on Google Code? Web Elements gathers together 8 Google widgets on a single page - Calenda...

Rate How To: An Undergraduate Science Information Literacy Tutorial in a Web 2.0 World

Original at istl.org external link    Fri, May 15

Rate Opinion: 6 Superb Ways to Shop Using Social MediaVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, May 15

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By Ben Parr Reviews: Facebook, Shopseen, Twitter Tags: online shopping, shopping, social media, social shopping Best for: Delivering physical gifts without an address via social media Best for: Using social media to understand and shop fashion

Rate How Web 2.0 Logos are drawn (Photoshop)

Original at hongkiat.com external link    Fri, May 15

Ever wonder how these guys draw their Web 2.0 Logos? Sometimes its nice to learn from others, build up the basic skills and start your own creativity from there. In this Photoshop tutorial, Im going to reveal you some of the nice Web 2.0 logos, how you can draw their logo exactly the same (well, n...

Rate Google AdSense API Now Lets Blogger Users Make More Money

Original at Mashups via Programmable Web external link    Thu, Apr 30

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By Tina Gasperson It only seems right that people blogging via Blogger would be able to take advantage of AdSense features for their blogs - both are Google products, after all. Now they can. Google has used their AdSense API to provide more built-in monetization options for its Blogger members.

April of 2009

 

Rate Opinion: The New Social Engagement: A Visit to Zappos

Original at Mashable! external link    Sun, Apr 26

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By Soren Gordhamer Reviews: Facebook, Twitter Tags: brand, business, social media, Tony Hsieh, Zappos More social media brand resources from Mashable: Why Big Brands Struggle With Social Media Reviews: Facebook, Twitter Tags: brand, business, social media, Tony Hsieh, Zappos

Rate Podcast: Twitter on the Radio: Hugh Jackman Reveals $100K Charity DonationVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Fri, Apr 24

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By Pete Cashmore The remaining $50K went to Charity:Water, a New York-based initiative that brings clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. It’s a cause that’s very familiar to those in the social media space: in September 2008, Mashable, our Twitter followers and Twitter users Paul...

Rate Where 2.0 Preview - Pelago's Jeff Holden on Creating Stories Out of Your Life

Original at O'Reilly Radar external link    Fri, Apr 10

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By James Turner JH: Right. Right. Well, luckily, I mean the way we think about the different sort of anchors of the social networking world: Twitter and Facebook and MySpace and these guys, we embrace them as opposed to trying to compete with them. So one of the things you can do in Whrrl, which a lot of people do...

Rate Opinion: Lunch Launches a Personal Recommendation Network (+Invites)

Original at Read/WriteWeb external link    Tue, Mar 31

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By Sarah Perez A new online community site called Lunch.com has just launched into private beta here at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The site, essentially a recommendation network, aims to bring the sort of casual conversations you would have with friends over lunch to the online arena. Using a propri...

March of 2009

 

Rate Government Agencies Make Friends With New Media

Original at Wired News external link    Wed, Mar 25

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By Chris Snyder The GSA ,which led the effort for 12 agencies over the past 9 months, has finally worked out arrangements with Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and blip.tv, saying these are "representative of high volume and innovation on the Web." It has plans on expanding this list further, and in discussions now...

Rate Podcast: Evernote Has Been Busy!

Original at Read/WriteWeb external link    Wed, Mar 25

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By Sarah Perez Clip to Evernote Bookmarklet: the Clip to Evernote bookmarklet was updated to allow you to clip either part of a web page or the whole thing. Plus, you can create a simple quick note without launching Evernote.Safari Clipper: Evernote added a Safari version of the Web Clipper which, in addi...

Rate Browser Hacks: Last Week's Top Five Greasemonkey Add-ons (Firefox)

Original at Read/WriteWeb external link    Sat, Mar 21

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By Marshall Kirkpatrick Thanks to Screencast.com for hosting the video above. (Here's a Flash version, if you prefer it.) Twitter Search on Google Results Pages - add real-time search to Google. 3. Google Search Sidebar with Youtube , Wikipedia, Dictionary.com and Flickr Results

Rate GrandCentral Returns as Google VoiceVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Read/WriteWeb external link    Wed, Mar 11

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By Frederic Lardinois Future Integration with Android? We can't help but wonder if Google will integrate the voicemail and transcription service with Android as well. In this video, Google shows the mobile version of Google Voice in the browser on an Android phone, but we assume that Google will release a dedi...

Rate How To: [Web 2 0 Marketing] Aaren Gallegos Gives Tips On Free (Web 2.0 Marketing)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Thu, Mar 5

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By rss@youtube.com (AarenGallegos619) Author: AarenGallegos619 Keywords: [Web 2.0 Marketing] aaren galegos Free Internet Marketing Website Drive Traffic web marketing advertising promotion traffic visitors youtube myspace twitter facebook squidoo business Added: March 5, 2009

February of 2009

 

Rate How To: Why is web 2.0 marketing important for your business?Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Feb 23    1 related articles

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By rss@youtube.com (7714samuel) http://www.behappyworkless.com Cash gifting program- Web 2.0 marketing is a FREE way to generate leads for your cash gifting program. Watch our video on cash gifting and visit our website and you will learn how to be effective in marketing your cash gifting site. Viral cash abundance is the g...

Rate Opinion: Do We Need Another Web Survey Tool? Survs May Have You Checking "Yes" (Invites)

Original at Read/WriteWeb external link    Fri, Jan 30

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By Rick Turoczy Survs is currently in private beta. But, they have given ReadWriteWeb readers an access code to register for the service. Simply visit the registration page and enter the code F6W6HGOD. The offer is limited to the first 500 people, first come, first served. Discuss

Rate Podcast: Weekly Wrapup: Obama Inauguration on the Web

Original at Read/WriteWeb external link    Sat, Jan 24

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By Richard MacManus Web Products Facebook and CNN: The Power of the Social Web Revealed Is Twitter Strangling its Famous API? Email us if you're interested in writing for ReadWriteWeb's Enterprise Channel. SEE MORE ENTERPRISE COVERAGE IN OUR ENTERPRISE CHANNEL

Rate How To: Web2 0 Viral MarketingVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Jan 20

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By rss@youtube.com (abuhakim1977) Author: abuhakim1977 Keywords: web 2.0 viral marketing viral marketing web 2.0 squidoo squidoo lens squidoo lenses digg twitter twitterer social networking social bookmarking how to social bookmark how to social network what is viral marketing Added: January 20, 2009

Rate How To: A Case for Simple Services - PART 3 (of 3)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Jan 6

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By rss@youtube.com (simpleservices) A presentation on RSSBus Simple Services™ - Learn how to unify heterogeneous data, and create loosely coupled highly flexible service architectures. Author: simpleservices Keywords: RSSBus "Web Services" SOAP JSON Mashup Mashable RSS SOA "Web 2.0" Ajax WSDL RIA ESB ATOM

Rate Podcast: Requiem for Ficlets.com

Original at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home external link    Sat, Jan 3

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By Chris Meadows It doesn’t seem like a content management system that allows people to write content chains in 1024-byte chunks should be that hard to assemble. Might there be a light at the end of the tunnel for all the dedicated ficleteers who are still, even now, frantically posting their stories to the...

Year 2008

 

Rate YouTube Live! (But Dead on Arrival)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Mashable! external link    Sat, Nov 22

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By Paul Glazowski Mandolin Player Sues YouTube The Daily Poll: Live Video – Who Will Win? Live Video Startups Rejoice: YouTube is Sitting this One Out YouTube South Korea to Come This Year? Live Video is Coming to YouTube in 2008 YouTube, Vodafone Hook Up YouTube Mobile Site Launches

Rate Elevator Pitch: Brownbook battles for the online directory space

Original at The Guardian (UK) external link    Mon, Oct 27

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By Jemima Kiss Web 2.0 and concepts of peer-to-peer collaboration and production, interactivity, wikis and user generated content are revolutionising the internet and the way business is done. It is certainly causing disruptive change to the industry and it's the users defining the terms."

Rate Patch: Oracle Demos E-Biz Update, Releases Web 2.0 Dev Tools

Original at eCocoma Web Consultant external link    Tue, Sep 23

Oracle has previewed the next release of its E-Business Suite at OpenWorld 2008 in San Franciso, and released a new JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework tool. The firm showed off version 12.1 of E-Business Suite, ...

Rate Podcast: Episode 9, Our First Remote

Original at miningthestore (WordPress) external link    Sat, Aug 2

By mlbuckley Episode 9 Our First Remote Welcome to Mining the Store, the podcast for small business owners who want to mine more gold from their businesses.  This is Episode 9.There's no "I" in podcast, so your comments are very important.  You can leave a comment here on the show notes page.  Or, you can ema...

Rate Patch: Is Web 2.0 Breaking the Internet - DNS in the Wild - As Reported ...

Original at Furrier.org external link    Wed, Jul 23

By John Furrier While some have speculated whether or not the vulnerability is old news, Mike Fratto had recently delivered a stern warning to patch all DNS servers in his InformationWeek blog:. “Since the CERT announcement yesterday about the new ...

Rate Podcast: Exploiting end-user trends to create value with sticky services - The “Me” network for the “We” experience

Original at PodTech.net external link    Tue, May 13

By Michael Johnson Tags: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Service Delivery Environment, SDE, John Giere, Alcatel-Lucent The communications industry is experiencing the explosion of the “Me-We” phenomenon! Customers want “Me” services that are personalized, easy to use and focused on their needs. At the...

Rate How To: Ajax: The Definitive Guide

Original at KnowFree v1.0 external link    Mon, Apr 14

By -cosmos- This book demonstrates not only how tried-and-true web standards make Ajax possible, but how these older technologies allow you to give sites a decidedly modern Web 2.0 feel. Ajax: The Definitive Guide explains how to use standards like ...

Rate Podcast: Is TV the New TV?Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at PodTech.net external link    Sat, Feb 16

By Jason Lopez What would your response be to this scenario: you're watching television and you forget that it's being distributed to you on the Internet. Who won? TV or the Web? James McQuivey covers television and media technologies for Forrester Research. He spoke with PodTech's Jason Lopez about th...

Rate Australia: Podcast - social networks and web 2.0

Original at silkcharm (Blogspot) external link    Wed, Jan 2

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By Laurel Papworth drum roll* PRREEEEEEsenting *ta da* Laurel Papworth (me), Duncan Riley (TechCrunch), Bronwen Clune (Norg Media) and Cameron Reilly (The Podcast Network or TPN) 2Web Crew #11 - 2007 wrap-up Facebook also gets a mention, as does Flock, Gmail and Seesmic.

Year 2007

 

Rate How To: Developing applications with Project Zero: Get started with Project Zero and PHP

Original at ibm.com external link    Mon, Aug 20

Project Zero provides an environment for the rapid development of interactive Web applications based on popular Web technologies such as PHP. This tutorial demonstrates how easy it is to get started with Project Zero, from installing the development tools to constructing an Ajax Web 2....

Rate On Mozilla and The Evolution of the Browser

Original at Read/WriteWeb external link    Thu, May 10

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By Richard MacManus There were other design options presented (e.g. in the toolbar, or little icons in the main content area), but the above design fits in well with the current Firefox 2 design. So just as Firefox 2 currently automatically recognizes a webpage with an RSS feed on it, in the URL bar, so to will Fire...

Year 2006

 

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

Original at Web 2.0 external link    Sat, Jul 15

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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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