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OPEN WEB AWARDS – 26 People’s Choice Winners
Dec 16th
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…
Twitter Stats – 2008 Demographics
Dec 11th
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…
Mashup Your Peeps – PeopleBrowsr
Dec 4th
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,…
Your Tweet Value
Nov 18th
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…
WWW Becomes WWDatabase
Nov 17th
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…
10 Great Web 2.0 Books
Nov 14th
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
Social Media Predicted the 2008 Presidential Election
Nov 5th
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…
Startups – Free Microsoft Software from BizSpark
Nov 5th
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…
Losing a National Treasure
Oct 23rd
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 – Your New Favorite Browser
Oct 15th
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…
