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Category Archives: Web 2.0
Thoughts on the September 09 New York Tech Meetup
Last night I attended my first session of the New York Tech Meetup, and it seems I’ve found exactly what I’ve been looking for in the city when it comes to a vibrant tech community. I recently moved to New York from Western Massachusetts to pursue a career writing about technology and film–after several years [...]
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Cuil and The Trouble with Tech Blogging
In an attempt to move in a different direction from the rest of the blogosphere, I was going to write something about how strange it was that the ill-fated search engine Cuil was covered so widely in mainstream press. Unfortunately, it looks like ReadWriteWeb beat me to it.
I encourage you to read their piece, because [...]
Digsby Opens Up with Public Beta, Adds Twitter & Voice/Video Support
I’ve already gushed about Digsby as a potential killer for Trillian’s perpetually delayed Astra release, and now it’s open for everyone to try in public beta. Since I’ve initially written about the IM/email/social network aggregator they’ve updated constantly mostly taking care of connection issues and other bug fixes. You can see their progress over at [...]
Mint Review: Managing Your Money with Web 2.0
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As of today Mint.com, the much-hyped Web 2.0 personal finance site, is open to the public. This also means that their NDA has expired, so I’ll finally be able to share what I’ve learned about the service while beta testing it these past few weeks.
Please note that the screenshots on this page were grabbed from [...]
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Uncovering The Web2.0Effect.org Hoax: How Virante Marketing Solutions & Burton Hosting Fooled the Web
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You might remember this site from the waves it made a few weeks ago at social news sites. It was a seemingly useful experiment meant to compare the uptime of several inexpensive hosting providers when faced with a flood of traffic. Dubbed the “Web 2.0 Effect: Which Host Will Survive?”, a term they invented to [...]
Also posted in Internet, Marketing 33 Comments
Bing Adds Twitter and Facebook Posts to Search Results, Should Google Worry?