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Google Comes Out Swinging At IO ’10
In: web2.0
20 May 2010Wow. We expected a lot of announcements related to Android (more coming today), but yesterday’s barrage of Google news was downright overwhelming. Google IO is a developer’s conference hosted by Google in California to … well this: Google I/O features 80 sessions, more than 5,000 developers, and over 100 demonstrations from developers showcasing their technologies. [...]
RSS Cloud Is Exciting News
8 Sep 2009I’ve always been a big fan of real-time information on the internet. Ever since the early days of IRC and Usenet, I would prefer IRC since the entire experience was live and real-time. Usenet and forums had the delay factor. Yesterday, I read about the decision WordPress made to support RSS Cloud. What is RSS [...]
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- Tags: pubsubhubbub, real-time, rss, rsscloud, web2.0, wordpress
Twitter Trending Topics: Are They Useful?
In: web2.0
5 Aug 2009The usefulness of Twitter trending topics has declined for me personally. All too often, I see people trying to “game” or “manipulate” the system to gain popularity. To me, the whole thing is null and void if it is contrived. Now that Twitter has brought these terms to the forefront, it seems the quest to [...]
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- Tags: friendfeed, real-time, search, topics, trending, twitter, value, web2.0
BingTweets Mashes Up Twitter Trends And Search Results
In: web2.0
15 Jul 2009Microsoft and Federated Media have partnered to create an interesting mashup called BingTweets. This site is in beta and offers a hands free experience on the latest trending topics on the web. After seeing this, I have a bit more respect for the efforts Microsoft is putting behind Bing and can only wonder how and [...]
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- Tags: bing, bingtweets, federated media, mashup, microsoft, real-time, search, twitter, web2.0
Google Sidewiki Shakes Up The Web
In: web2.0
24 Sep 2009No one likes losing control. Hence the backlash to Google’s new Sidewiki product. Sidewiki is described as follows: Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that lets you contribute and read information alongside any web page. Sounds familiar? Well there are several sites out there which allow you to “annotate the web” such as Diigo. You [...]