I am still ill. Therefore I don't post much. I am sorry, please bare with me. Social networks are hot. In a lot of cases I have no clue as to why they are hot, but there are exceptions. For......
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According to Direct Traffic, youtube plans on adding 30 second ads to Youtube videos in 2008. It seems a logical step, as money will have to be generated in order to keep it free for users. Google,...
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Google keeps on going strong. Yesterday Google's RSS reader came out of beta (yeah), and today a new product is launched : Share your Stuff.Shared Stuff is simple enough; users drag a "email/...
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Zimbra is one of these companies that started not too long ago, is very innovative and has achieved a steady market position with customers that are confident in the service Zimbra offers. And they...
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Google keeps on innovating. We knew this was coming, but it is still revolutionary : Within Google Docs&Spreadsheets you can now create presentations. I tried it and I am impressed with the...
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Filed in archive Web 2.0
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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I always wanted to learn spanish. For those of you that don't know (about) me, I am a native dutch speaker, fluent in english, french and semi-fluent (is that even a word ??) in german. And I...
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Wikis are fun. They always have been. They make documentation sharing very easy. The original concept of wikis is a system that everyone can edit, but some wikis come with (optional) user...
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Google is moving fast. This company is taking over slowly but surely. Google has changed the way we search data on the internet, changed the way we read and send email, how we chat and so on. When...
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Filed in archive Start-Ups
by S.M. Schrama on September 12, 2007
Typos can be very nasty, making you look bad. Therefore most people use spellcheckers on their computers. When people sell stuff on eBay, things get a little bit different. Typos are killing on eBay :...
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Netscape must be the one site that everybody forgot about when the web went from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. The company, owned by AOL tried to wake us up by releasing a digg clone to the general public to......
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Microsoft is working very hard to keep up with the important players on the Web 2.0 market. Now that the company has released their Office Live products, it focuses on development. In an attempt...
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Delicious was either the first of one of the first social bookmarking sites. It has grown quite a bit and became popular with a lot of people in very short time. The service knows a lot of extensions...
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Zoho is working hard and releasing a lot of new apps right now. Recently Zoho released Zoho Start, a startpage where you login to that acts like a dashboard giving you access to all of you...
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TechSmith's SnagIt - the world's most popular screen capture software- allow users to capture, edit and share any image, including scrolling windows, objects, menus, video, text, and Web...
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Filed in archive Web 2.0
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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Google Earth, the program you install on your computer to explore the earth, has a nice little "easter egg" built in : A fully working flightsimulator. The game was first discovered by a...
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