The winners of Mashable’s 2nd annual Open Web Awards was announced Dec 16, 2008. The Open Web Awards are a multilingual, international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. By way of an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements of websites and services [...]
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Ignite Social Media has compiled their 2008 Social Network Analysis Report: Geographic, Demographic and Traffic Data Revealed – the sources are Google Insights and Google Adplanner.
You will find some very interesting insights in these reports which cover 42 different social networks. Presented for your convenience below are the data on twitter (because twitter is my [...]
PeopleBrowsr (I would have called it PeepBrowsr) is an online app that lets you keep tabs on your online IDs. Kinda like TweetDeck as an online application, but in addition to Twitter, you can keep track of your other online identities. If you have used TweetDeck you will get PeopleBrowsr immediately. Although it’s in Alpha, [...]
What’s your Twitter Account worth in USD?
YATT – Yet Another Twitter Tool – TweetValue – assigns value to any Twitter account in US Dollars. Find out what your Twitter account is really worth.
To find out the value, give TweetValue your Twitter ID and it calculates the value of your account. You can also view the [...]
In the 6,527 days since the Tim Berners-Lee made the first web page we’ve gone from sharing computers to sharing links and now – sharing data with the semantic web:
Kevin Kelly (founder of Wired Magazine) at the Web 2.0 Summit, Nov 5 – 7, 2008, in San Francisco, CA gives his impressionistic view of [...]
Web 2.0 is changing how the world communicates and does business. Pick a book or two and broaden your understanding – Recommend starting with The Cluetrain Manifesto.
(click on the book covers for reviews at Amazon.com)
Groundswell – The Blog
5 More Books After the JUMP
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On March 19, 2008, before the candidates were nominated, Mike Elgan wrote a column entitled “Has Digg Already Picked the President?” suggesting that social networks might be the best predictor of the outcome of the 2008 presidential election. He was right:
“At the time, I conducted an analysis that varied from site to site, and included [...]
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Microsoft has today unveiled their BizSpark initiative.
Get software, support and visibility. Microsoft is hoping to seed Silicon Valley (both real and virtual) with future customers by providing a full kit of tools and software to software development startups for free (for three years.) This is a global program that provides access to full-featured development [...]
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Many of those who fought for us in WWII are gone, most of those still with us are in their eighties. In this era of self-indulgence and expectation of entitlement along with an increasing lack of respect for the commitments and contributions of those who came before us the stories of those men and women [...]
Flock 2.0 the Social Web Browser has been released and it’s ready to ROCK! This appealing browser is all about integration and making it easier for us to share and interact online. The words discover, create and share come to mind as you experience Flock which was designed based on the web being an indispensable [...]
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Get beamed up with Scotty and watch McGiver do miracles with paperclips – youtube has introduced, theater view, lights out mode (like what you’ve seen if you watched TV on your computer via Hulu.com) and Super HD and full-length programming labeled with a Film Strip symbol ( ), but you “may” see in-stream [...]
An article by Scott Loganbill in the monkey_bites section of webmonkey reports that “As our economy sours more and more technologists are writing off Web 2.0 as dead.” Then he goes on to say, “We believe … the web is evolving. In fact, there’s no sign it will ever stop.” He also states that [...]
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From About.com - “Journaling is a great way to reduce stress, process your feelings, better understand yourself, and have a catalog of your life’s events.”
From cnet.com - “I’m not kidding when I say Penzu is the most realistic re-creation of paper I’ve seen on the Web. The service has a serious leg up on its [...]
We live in a world of constantly emerging, developing and maturing technologies. These technologies are at the confluence of rapidly accelerating ideas and innovation.
The IT industry research firm Gartner has for many years tracked and analyzed emerging technologies from their inception to their fruition or demise and has developed, from their observations, the Gartner Hype [...]
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Lee & Sachi LeFever at CommonCraft.com do the “…In Plain English” video series.
Here is their new video on “Web Search Strategies”, only 2:51 in length.
Tip from this video: Words have multiple meanings which gives way too many search results. To limit your search use a hyphen or minus sign before a word to remove [...]
