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by Greg Cruey on November 08, 2008
The three-day Web 2.0 Summit wrapped up yesterday in San Francisco. The event this year featured a diverse group of well known speakers - including Arianna Huffington, Lance Armstrong, Al Gore. Among...
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by Greg Cruey on October 31, 2008
TechCrunch reported yesterday that Google Knol is going multilingual. While English is the obvious first langauge of Knol at the moment, the Wikipedia-like user built knowledge site now has French,...
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// When I first heard the term "virtual textbook," I thought it was referring to college age students. Instead, a new initiative in Florida is making textbooks for first-though fifth-grade...
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// For those of you planning to vote via absentee ballot this year, a new website may be of interest. It's called BeAbsentee.org and was designed to provide procedures for absentee voting online....
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by Linda Roeder on August 11, 2008
Google has started a new site called Knol that allows you to share your vast wealth of personal information with the world. Everyone knows something that no one else knows. Think about it, I'm...
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Now you can see what Disney World in Florida looks like without having to actually go there. Get a satellite view of the four Disney World theme parks by going to Google Maps. You'll be able to...
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At the Web 2.0 Marketplace you can buy and sell everything Web 2.0. Interested in buying an already established website business, you'll find all kinds of websites here for sale. Seeking a Web...
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© pingnews.com This has to be Web 2.0 or maybe even the beginning of Web 3.0. I was at my doctors office and noticed a poster they had hanging in the room. It said they had a website and I......
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by S.M. Schrama on March 11, 2008
With all the applications going online, security becomes a more important topic. These days, the Googles and facebooks are carriers of our data - and what are they doing to secure our data? Google...
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by S.M. Schrama on February 22, 2008
Platform As A Service, or PaaS is the latest development in virtualization. Where companies started to offer applications online (Saas, Software As A Service) and the use of virtual servers is...
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by S.M. Schrama on February 14, 2008
A big slice of the Web 2.0 revolution happened thanks to the development of javascript, a language almost forgotten. Some new additions to javascript made it from a dusty and much...
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by S.M. Schrama on February 07, 2008
Sometimes I think The Web is dead. When looking at all the startups that die within 2 years, some even after only a few months, you can only wonder what the real value of the web is, and if this......
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by S.M. Schrama on February 01, 2008
Koonolive wants to be the next generation web worker collaboration tool. That's a mouthfull for a little program that aims to create collaboration around (MS) office documents and other...
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by S.M. Schrama on January 20, 2008
I just finished reading the . To be honest, I am disappointed. I feel like when someone with very good and innovative ideas has finally been elected and enters the government, and after a while you...
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by S.M. Schrama on January 14, 2008
Open Source has been underworld material for a long time, as bigger companies refused to start using it, mostly because open source software is often not supported by a major company like IBM or SUN....
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by S.M. Schrama on December 06, 2007
The developers at Google are pretty smart, as we know.They clearly understand how to get a chip of the money from a good product, as Google has just released an interface to Google Apps on the iPhone....
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by S.M. Schrama on November 26, 2007
As the peaks of Web 2.0 are behind us, more and more online applications disappear, often try to get sold or just close doors. Looking at Techcrunch's Deadpool, an accurate source for applications...
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by S.M. Schrama on November 15, 2007
The developments around Web 2.0 have changes a lot over time. We started talking about Web 2.0 when people started to open up websites with ability to react and respond, from forums to blogs...
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by S.M. Schrama on November 07, 2007
Google recently enabled imap on all gmail accounts - a great move. Google already offered pop3 download of email, but that didn't really cut it. Imap offers full sync, which means that mails...
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by S.M. Schrama on November 01, 2007
Yesterday I was held up by a big bunch of problems I had to take care of in a clients network, and the end of the afternoon went up in smoke after I had picked up my brand Spanking new......
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by S.M. Schrama on October 08, 2007
Youtube is one of the most popular social sharing sites around. It has been around for a few years, and it has only seen growth in it's years. As the Web 2.0 trend progresses, the definition of...
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by S.M. Schrama on September 19, 2007
As more and more applications have moved to the Web, things are getting more and more serious. This movement was picked up by companies and labelled SaaS (Software as a Service), and the tie-wearing...
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by S.M. Schrama on September 05, 2007
Although Google doesn't own us (yet), it is pretty clear they know everything there is to know about you. So we could say that Google owns your identity. As documented in this fine article, Google...
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by S.M. Schrama on August 27, 2007
Most of you that use more than 3 websites or online applications, have this problem where you need to remember all the paswords and logins for all the different sites. Terrible. How do you remember...
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