Category: General
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Yahoo acquires Upcoming.org
I’d like to congratulate our advisory board member Leonard Lin and the rest of the gang at Upcoming.org for their acquisition by Yahoo. Nice one!
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And then they all get blown out of the water
This is the big one: Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are expected to unveil a collaborative effort later today that will bring StarOffice productivity applications to Google users, according to sources familiar with the companies’ plans. The move is expected to be part of a larger technology initiative in which Sun will help Google…
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New web apps on the block
Ning allows you to create your own web 2.0 widgets. Cool. I think. Or at least, fun to say. PHP developers can customise the internals as much as they like, whereas everyone else can clone other peoples’ projects and customise the externals to suit their needs. Apparently this project is by Marc Andreessen, co-founder of…
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The service automatically gets better the more people use it
What is Web 2.0? A very good article (brought to my attention by Sven Edge), which lays out the essence of new-style web applications.