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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.)
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Original at Mashable!
• 7 hours ago
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Original at sharpietaboo (WordPress)
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Original at Mashable!
• 10 hours ago
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Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Jul 2
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Original at nkilkenny (WordPress)
• Thu, Jul 2
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Original at Mashable!
• Wed, Jul 1
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Original at generallordisimo.com
• Wed, Jul 1
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Original at TechCrunch
• Mon, Jun 29
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Original at collective-thinking.com
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Original at Mashable!
• Mon, Jun 22
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Original at daviding (WordPress)
• Thu, Jun 18
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Original at Mashable!
• Thu, Jun 18
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Original at angryafrican (WordPress)
• Tue, Jun 16
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Original at GigaOM
• Sun, Jun 14
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Original at GigaOM
• Sat, Jun 13
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Original at Mashable!
• Wed, May 27
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Original at istl.org
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• Fri, May 15
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Original at hongkiat.com
• Fri, May 15
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Original at Mashups via Programmable Web
• Thu, Apr 30
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Original at Mashable!
• Sun, Apr 26
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Original at O'Reilly Radar
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Original at Read/WriteWeb
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Original at Wired News
• Wed, Mar 25
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Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Wed, Mar 25
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Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Sat, Mar 21
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GrandCentral Returns as Google VoiceOriginal at Read/WriteWeb
• Wed, Mar 11
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How To: [Web 2 0 Marketing] Aaren Gallegos Gives Tips On Free (Web 2.0 Marketing)Original at YouTube
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Original at Read/WriteWeb
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Original at Read/WriteWeb
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How To: Web2 0 Viral MarketingOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Jan 20
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Original at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
• Sat, Jan 3
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...
YouTube Live! (But Dead on Arrival)Original at Mashable!
• Sat, Nov 22
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Elevator Pitch: Brownbook battles for the online directory space
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Mon, Oct 27
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."
Patch: Oracle Demos E-Biz Update, Releases Web 2.0 Dev Tools
Original at eCocoma Web Consultant
• 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, ...
Podcast: Episode 9, Our First Remote
Original at miningthestore (WordPress)
• 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...
Patch: Is Web 2.0 Breaking the Internet - DNS in the Wild - As Reported ...
Original at Furrier.org
• Wed, Jul 23
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Podcast: Exploiting end-user trends to create value with sticky services - The “Me” network for the “We” experience
Original at PodTech.net
• Tue, May 13
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How To: Ajax: The Definitive Guide
Original at KnowFree v1.0
• Mon, Apr 14
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Podcast: Is TV the New TV?Original at PodTech.net
• Sat, Feb 16
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Australia: Podcast - social networks and web 2.0
Original at silkcharm (Blogspot)
• Wed, Jan 2
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Original at ibm.com
• Mon, Aug 20
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Original at Read/WriteWeb
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Original at Web 2.0
• Sat, Jul 15
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