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Opinion: Weekly Wrapup: The Web in 5 Years, Hulu's Plans, Google Wave Use Cases, And More...

31 Oct 2009 05:00:00 PDT

Written by Richard MacManus
Facebook Announces Roadmap for Developers Web Products Google Wave Use Cases: Education Google Launches Music Search: Partners with MySpace, Lala, Gracenote and Others Brizzly Adds Facebook - Aims to be The Blogger.com of Social Media

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Opinion: Share your favorite stories about GeoCities

26 Oct 2009 00:07:36 PDT

Written by Don Reisinger
My site was ugly. There's no doubt about it. But for the time, it wasn't too bad. I used my little corner of the Web to review video games. At that point in my life, video games meant (almost) everything to me. Every spare moment I had was used up by the digital characters I controlled on the screen in f...

Original story at Webware.com .

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Opinion: UX Pros on Bing/Twitter: It's a Start, But Awkward

21 Oct 2009 14:02:54 PDT

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick
Bing now has real-time access to the full fire hose of Twitter data, that's a really valuable flow of data. It's clear that Twitter can provide some real opportunity for Bing, but what can Bing do for Twitter? Would Twitter users be better off just using Twitter search?

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Opinion: The Web of Services: Machine-Accessible Services

16 Oct 2009 01:00:39 PDT

Written by Alexander Korth
The services sector has become the world's biggest business sector, accounting for 64% of the worldwide gross domestic product. The sector has pressure on it to make its services easier and more widely accessible, as well as to quickly adapt to ever faster changes in the market environme...

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Opinion: Real-Time Web Summit: Connecting People Live

15 Oct 2009 15:03:47 PDT

Written by Frederic Lardinois
Learning from Dating Sites Other companies, of course, have faced similar questions before. Online dating services like eHarmony, for example, have worked on matching people for years. Dating services had to find ways to make users comfortable with the decisions they made; and while pe...

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Opinion: Filter Geeks Try to Solve Info Overload at the Real-Time Web Summit

15 Oct 2009 14:34:05 PDT

Written by Jolie O'Dell
Overall, having the author, location, time, sentiment, and keywords automatically applied to user-generated data could lead to much richer streams with built-in filtering opportunities, both filtering content out as well as discovering new content and sources.

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Web 2.0 news and blogs - November 08, 2009

08 Nov 2009 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.

• Opinion: BT's Ribbit releasing Google Voice competitor -- by Rafe Needleman from Webware.com
• Opinion: Web 2.0 and the Mobile Internet -- from Latest News from Web 2.0 Journal
• Opinion: Is Quicken at the end of the road? -- by Rafe Needleman from Webware.com
• Opinion: Nomee combines AIR with social information -- by Don Reisinger from Webware.com
• Opinion: Find a great e-book to read online with these sites -- by Don Reisinger from Webware.com
• Opinion: The Top 10 Most Watched Web TV Shows -- by Jennifer Van Grove from Mashable!
• Opinion: Back to School: 10 Terrific Web Apps for Teachers -- by Josh Catone from Mashable!
• Opinion: What's on the Web: WolframAlpha, Evernote in Medicine -- by Bertalan Meskó from web-20 « WordPress.com Tag Feed
• Opinion: How the Web Has Changed Job Searching -- by Jordan Golson from GigaOM » Web
• Opinion: The Social Web Prays at Email’s Altar -- by Om Malik from GigaOM » Web

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Opinion: The Human/Machine Continuum of the Real-Time Web (Chart)

13 Oct 2009 15:35:19 PDT

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick
On the far left we've got services that facilitate human-to-human communication, like Twitter itself, Instant Messaging and a new service called Olark (our review). Olark integrates with your existing instant messenger client to facilitate real-time chat with visitors to a particu...

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Opinion: From SMCEDU: 5 Steps to Make the Social Web Work for Higher Ed

12 Oct 2009 23:22:33 PDT

Written by Jolie O'Dell
A new offshoot of Social Media Club, the Social Media Club Education Connection (SMCEDU) is a Chris Heuer-led organization intended to promote social media in higher education curricula. Sponsor 1) Use Twitter to find your network. 3) Build your website. 4) Create content.

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Opinion: Spiffbox Says it Pays to be Social - No Really, They Pay You with Cash

06 Oct 2009 08:00:54 PDT

Written by Sarah Perez
A Social Network to Complement the Others Instead of trying to establish a new userbase from scratch, Spiffbox integrates with the social networks Facebook and Twitter. They even have their own Facebook application so you can interact with other Spiffbox members while logged into Face...

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Opinion: Marshall’s Top Tech Trends for ALA Annual, Summer 2009

12 Jul 2009 10:23:26 PDT

Written by Marshall Breeding
Library Thing for Libraries and ChiliFresh have become popular add-ins to help existing library catalogs and discovery interfaces add a measure of user-generated content. I anticipate that social networking components will increasingly become embedded into the inner fabric of lib...

Original story at LITA .

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

10 Apr 2009 17:37:27 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at O'Reilly Radar .

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

31 Mar 2009 15:49:01 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Opinion: Transforming the Relationship Between Citizens and Government: Making Content Findable Online

25 Mar 2009 10:53:04 PDT

Written by Vanessa Fox
One problem is that the U.S. Census Bureau pages don't use zip codes to denote regions. They use tract numbers. Even if the pages were written in plain language searchers might use, search engine crawlers couldn't get past the JavaScript forms to access the pages.

Original story at O'Reilly Radar .

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Opinion: Weekly Wrapup: New Facebook Homepages, Kindle for iPhone, DEMO Smarter Web, And More...

07 Mar 2009 05:00:00 PST

Written by Richard MacManus
Make Google Real-Time With Twitter Search Add-on Twitter VC Laughs at the Idea that Twitter Has No Business Model Enterprise Have Code, Will Travel - Sabre Chooses Open Source to Power its Business SEE MORE ENTERPRISE COVERAGE IN OUR ENTERPRISE CHANNEL

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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

30 Jan 2009 01:30:48 PST

Written 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

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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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...

Original story at slimpickens (WordPress) .

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Opinion: Hulu, News Corp, and the Web (2.0?)

04 Dec 2007 07:58:24 PST

Written by zbeauvais
I haven't used a yahoo service since. No, seriously, I haven't used Yahoo. As soon as Konfabulator was purchased by Yahoo, I uninstalled it. I was all set to set up a Flickr account, when I found out it was Yahoo. (I might go back on that one, once I get a decent digital camera.)

Original story at Steve Gillmor's GestureLab .

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Opinion: In search of micro-elites: how to get user-generated content

14 Nov 2007 20:14:59 PST

Written by Andy Oram
Even Wikipedia follows this rule in some cases. There are some subjects where everybody in the world holds an opinion and a huge number actually know some facts. But other subjects would never see articles unless a couple of the few dozen experts in the world took time to write it.

Original story at O'Reilly Radar .

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Opinion: Tim Bray: Tell the Story, Write the Book, Sing the Song, Ride the Wave

23 Oct 2007 23:32:50 PDT

Written by carlaking
We look at the O'Rielly book sales to see what's coming. JavaScript and Ruby are growing. JavaScript is growing because of Ajax. Web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, has to have an Ajax interface these days. So we are all required, unfortunately, to learn JavaScript. Ride the Web 2.0 wave

Original story at blogs.sun.com .

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Opinion: Network Effects Mean Walled Gardens are Here to Stay

02 Jul 2007 12:37:46 PDT

I occasionally get requests to join private social networking sites, like LinkedIn or Facebook. I always politely decline. I understand the appeal of private social networking, and I mean no disrespect to the people who send invites. But it's just not for me.

Original story at Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life .

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Opinion: Zude Beta: Start Page on Steroids

28 Jun 2007 23:10:59 PDT

Written by Phil Butler
The Beta testing trail took us to an interesting new private beta site called Zude. This app is deploying cross domain drag-and-drop technology to allow users to create a unique Web presence. This development is like a 2015 version of Netvibes, or Pageflakes on steroids. 5g’s technology ha...

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Opinion: Yumondo Brings "Urban Stylesharing" to Social Networking

31 May 2007 02:10:15 PDT

Written by Phil Butler
Yumondo is a social networking community of the next order. The developers have termed their refinement of an established idea "urban stylesharing". I suppose this is as good a tag as any, for a great place to mirror our actual communities. The simplicity and familiarity of the tools and ser...

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Opinion: Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One

22 Mar 2007 02:48:49 PDT

Written by Josh Catone
Perhaps the best exponent so far of Web 'wisdom of crowds' is Google, which organizes websites based on how they link to each other. Google sees links as votes for the relevance of a page. It is of course more complicated than that, but one can make the argument that Google works by utilizing th...

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Opinion: Future Of Web Apps, Day 2

21 Feb 2007 13:33:54 PST

Chris Wilson from Microsoft, who has worked on Internet Expolorer from version 3 up, was here to talk about the future of the web browser. He looked back at the days when Outlook Web Access was one of the most advanced web apps around and was using AJAX before it was even called AJAX. He talk...

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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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...

Original story at Web 2.0 .

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