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Web 2.0 warfare from Gaza to Iran

28 Jan 2010 16:05:53 PST

The Iranian struggle is not however, the first conflict in which emerging Web 2.0 social media technologies have played a significant role. Israel's offensive in Gaza in December 2008 - January 2009 provides an important precedent which shows that, despite its undoubted potential for e...

Original story at spinwatch.org .

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Flickr API Now Gets You “People in Photos”

27 Jan 2010 22:38:57 PST

Written by Matthew Casperson
The new API methods respect the opt-in and opt-out options provided by Flickr (with the ability to remove yourself from individual photos), which is one of the advantages Flickr has over Facebook. Related ProgrammableWeb Resources Flickr API Profile, 498 mashups

Original story at Mashups via Programmable Web .

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Why Social Enterprise and Cloud Computing Go Hand in Hand

26 Jan 2010 16:00:39 PST

Written by Alex Williams
IDC reported today that the majority of business workers use the social Web at least once a week. Sponsor A cloud-based service bring these services together into one environment. In a cloud-based environment, API's can be used to integrate third-party applications such as Twitter.

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Post Pics to Twitter, Facebook and MySpace All at Once With yfrog

25 Jan 2010 12:21:18 PST

Written by Samuel Axon
The yfrog Twitter image-sharing service can now simultaneously post to MySpace, Twitter and Facebook. You don’t have to go to each website to share that vacation pic you took; just select your image, check the boxes for the services you want to send to and click “Post It!”

Original story at Mashable! .

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The Guardian Launches World Government Data Site

21 Jan 2010 21:59:02 PST

Written by Matthew Casperson
You can browse the top 10 mashups that make use of the government data, or view a more complete list of mashups here. The Guardian has also provided some additional data sets collated from public domain figures that can be accessed via Google Spreadsheets.

Original story at Mashups via Programmable Web .

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Now That We’re All Web-Made Celebs, Do We Need Tools to Manage Our Reputations?

13 Jan 2010 17:00:43 PST

Written by Liz Gannes
So what’s next? Certainly there’s a lot more to be done to get control over that information. For instance, ReputationDefender has little access to info that’s below a registration or privacy protection layer on a social network (Fertik said that ReputationDefender has a deal to get bet...

Original story at GigaOM .

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Web 2.0 news and blogs - February 26, 2010

26 Feb 2010 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.

• Social Media Marketing: How Pepsi Got It Right -- by Leah Betancourt from Mashable!
• Google Wave Gets More Business-Friendly With Read-Only and Restore Options -- by Jennifer Van Grove from Mashable!
• Web 2.0 in Elementary - Learning Telecollaboratively -- from Web 2.0 Compiled
• Google Raises Internet Search Market Share Again In December; Bing Drops Share -- by Brian White from BloggingStocks
• Tech and Internet Giants Step Up to Help Haiti -- by Adam Ostrow from Mashable!
• Google Donating $1 Million to Haiti Ground Support -- by Jennifer Van Grove from Mashable!
• Search For Movies Anywhere in the World with SpeedCine -- by Christina Warren from Mashable!
• Pornstar Tweet!: “Stalking Porn Stars — With Their Permission” -- by Samuel Axon from Mashable!
• Facebook Wants to Be MySpace -- by Tom Johansmeyer from BloggingStocks
• Identifying Similarities and Differences - Web 2.0 That Works: Marzano & Web 2.0 -- from Web 2.0 Compiled

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Haiti Earthquake: Twitter Pictures Sweep Across the Web [PHOTOS]

12 Jan 2010 20:57:40 PST

Written by Ben Parr
Photos taken by journalist @CarelPedre on his mobile phone are providing a glimpse into the devastation that has slammed the Caribbean nation. Another Twitter user, @MarvinAdy, shared those pictures through TwitPic, resulting in tens of thousands of view and countless retweets.

Original story at Mashable! .

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Back from Le Web 3, and I am so glad I was there

27 Dec 2009 00:22:56 PST

Written by Jeff Clavier
Unless you have been away for a week in an Internet-deprived location, or don't bother reading blogs anymore, you are at least aware that a conference called Le Web3 took place in Paris (France) last week, and that a very profound and passionate controversy ensued - initially led by mostl...

Original story at Jeff Clavier's Software Only .

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Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender?

26 Dec 2009 08:00:00 PST

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick
The semantic web is hot. World Wide Web founding father and W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee says all the pieces are now in place for a semantic web to emerge. So is it a boy or a girl? Right: The Semantic Web made me grow this beard. Semantic web t-shirt via SpreadShirt.

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Why Mozilla’s Deal With Google Gets Ever Shakier

10 Dec 2009 14:23:39 PST

Written by Sebastian Rupley
The successful rise of Mozilla's Firefox browser is one of the most storied tales of the open source community. Despite the browser's success, however, Mozilla remains hugely financially dependent on Google-- possibly perilously so.

Original story at GigaOM .

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Looking back at three years of Web 2.0 investing

07 Dec 2009 23:08:35 PST

Written by Jeff Clavier
And then there is the strategy that brings it altogether, putting each companies in a nice set of well defined buckets. I started with 3 buckets: Search, Social Media, Infrastructure. And evolved each bucket with the investments I made, and the ones I passed on. But that will be the subject of...

Original story at Jeff Clavier's Software Only . Related stories include: Eureka Earthquake: Twitter Pics Tell the Story [PHOTOS] - Mashable! , Interesting Web 2.0 conferences and events - Jeff Clavier's Software Only

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Year-End Search Lists: Data Porn Based on Flimsy Science

01 Dec 2009 09:42:34 PST

Written by Liz Gannes
It's good that Bing, Yahoo and Google can agree on at least one thing for their closely timed year-end search-term roundups: Michael Jackson was tops in 2009. But as we've been griping for years now, these lists are mostly useless and misinterpreted.

Original story at GigaOM .

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The Future Is All About Context: The Pragmatic Web

20 Nov 2009 11:14:15 PST

Written by Guest Author
Facebook is nothing more than perhaps the largest single database of this kind of online identity data: explicit, activity and relationship data. With the development of Facebook Connect, which allows for the "open" exchange of Facebook user data between Facebook and third parties, F...

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Seesmic Web Gets Lists and Geolocation

06 Nov 2009 08:49:41 PST

Written by Frederic Lardinois
Seesmic just announced the launch of Twitter lists in its browser-based Seesmic Web Twitter client. Earlier this week, Seesmic released the first desktop Twitter client with support for lists. Despite Seesmic's best efforts, Brizzly managed to become the first company to release web c...

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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Reid Hoffman on Taking Web 2.0 on the Go

02 Nov 2009 17:00:58 PST

Written by Stacey Higginbotham
Reid Hoffman, who joined Greylock as an investment partner for its latest fund announced today, chatted briefly with me on trends in social media as the web goes mobile. For him, the mobile web is tied to the Internet as viewed on the PC, but certain applications will be more appropriate for...

Original story at GigaOM .

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scitechbox.com - Web 2.0: Whatever Google Knows About Spam, It Isn't Saying

26 Apr 2008 07:03:17 PDT

Trust and reputation systems are a great way to reduce spam, but Google avoids talk of an ongoing flood of malware-infected porn on Google Groups pages. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on Friday, Google engineer Matt Cutts, who heads Google's Web spam...

Original story at scitechbox.com .

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Rookie Swingers from RookieSwingers Web 2.0 Porn

17 Apr 2008 05:32:00 PDT

Cyberheat has released a brand new series of “Web 2.0″ porn sites. I’m not really sure what is so “WeB 2.0 Porn” about them but the porn movies and the concept sems the best with Rookie Swingers of the 5 new porn sites. CLICK TO WATCH THESE SLUTS FUCK In this new reality based porn site, real amateu ...

Original story at snizzshare.com .

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FlauntR: Web 2.0 Photo Editor

26 Oct 2007 19:08:53 PDT

Written by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I loaded up FlauntR this evening on one of said machines after seeing some interesting screenshots. Right away, I was amazed at the load times. There are pages on Facebook, let alone MySpace, that load slower than this - I think it spent a grand total of about seven seconds, and instantly I had...

Original story at Mashable! .

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Podcast: Computerworld TechCast: The LAFD and Web 2.0

12 Sep 2007 11:05:17 PDT

Written by ian_lamont@computerworld.com (Computerworld)
Web 2.0 is an umbrella term used to describe some extremely popular Web software technologies. It's already permeated consumer culture, and now it's invading the enterprise. In this episode of the TechCast, Computerworld Reporter Heather Havenstein talks with Brian Humphrey and Ron My...

Original story at Computerworld TechCast .

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Podcast: Now More Than Ever

08 Sep 2007 21:54:15 PDT

Written by Peter Brantley
Although Gray has strong institutional support from the California Historical Society, LNDP could definitely use more of the Web 2.0 technical savvy that resides out in our community to help design an improved portal for submission of photographs, diaries, and facilitate correspond...

Original story at O'Reilly Radar .

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Free Advertising Web 2.0 Portal, changing the Internet forever... whynotad

09 Aug 2007 03:34:57 PDT

Home > Free Advertising Web 2.0 Portal, changing the Internet forever... whynotad People are passionate about controlling the choices they have. The web is full of complicated and confusing log-in screens, forms, applications, approvals and user panels, specifically controlled and...

Original story at I wire .

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Podcast: Making sense of China's Web 2.0 infatuation

07 Jun 2007 13:08:00 PDT

Why Web 2.0's all the rage in China, the world's first biofuel train leaves the station, and taking the great Google sleuthing test.

Original story at CNET News.com .

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Spyboys Go Web 2.0

11 Oct 2006 08:42:00 PDT

And while that may give some people the willies, it sure sounds like a good idea to me. We know jihadists are using everything from Hotmail to YouTube to Al-Jazeera to spread their messages, and do their business. Why not track them out in the open? Think of it as the Web 2.0 approach to spying: Le...

Original story at Defense Tech .

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Podcast: Web 2.0 Investments

29 Aug 2006 21:00:00 PDT

Dan Nova, a managing general partner at Highland Capital Partners, and the co-founder of Lycos, talks about how his firm is approaching investing in online video startups, community sites, and alternative search sites. He describes where he thinks the opportunities are in video shari...

Original story at BusinessWeek .

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Read/WriteWeb Filter

24 Apr 2006 05:36:43 PDT

WebOS market review (Over at ZDNet I take a look at the still nascent WebOS space, which is one thing Google hasn't entered...yet) Flickr pic by seanjordan: "During his CES keynote Google cofounder Larry Page argues a strong case for open standards."

Original story at Read/WriteWeb .

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