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A Crass and Empty Web 2.0

Loring Wirbel gives his take on Web 2.0, which according to him, has deteriorated to mean a gaggle of look-alike applications dominated by video sharing and social networking. more...
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2007 Web 2.0 Summit Review: Evolution Web 2.0 Conference Over 2 Years

It all started when Tim O'Reilly defined the term Web 2.0. We saw a new wave of Web 2.0 startups in comming years and Web 2.0 technologies mature and go main stream. This article by Richard captures the more...
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At Web 2.0 conference - bantering fun

The Web 2.0 conference has started in San Francisco and has attracted all those big names that were expected to be part of this gala show. Yesterday MySpace and Facebook were bantering about a number more...
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Building Reddit: Motivation and Its my damn job

Alexis Ohanian talks about how they build Reddit and what motivated them, how every team member took it upon themselves to give their best and always thought that it is their job to do what needed to be more...
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Facebook - Long Tail Rules

A really interesting post by Tim O'Reilly on the rise of Facebook as the application platform. As per this article, there are currently about 5000 applications for Facebook but 87% of the usage goes to more...
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Pownce - Lessons Learned building a social networking site with one web developer

This is a very good post by Leah Culver, the web developer for pownce where she shares her experience building Pownce, a social networking startup. Pownce uses Amazon S3 to host the files. more...
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Marc Andreessen says it's a bubble

Using the right tone and satire, Marc Andreessen says that we are in the middle of a bubble - the wave of Web 2.0 and related hype created are part of this unsustainable ride that will not last, but only more...
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LocoGopher.com - Connecting Communities and Merchants

LocoGopher.com is a local search & review site that focuses on connecting local people with their local businesses (small and large). The site is ad-free and unbiased because there are no sponsored search more...
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Facebook to let you 'group' friends

It hasn't happened yet, nor is there a timeline for it, but Facebook has stated that it's working on allowing its members to "organize that long list of friends into groups so you can decide more specifically more...
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Should designers optimize the web sites for page views…or user experience?

An interesting quote from Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, when asked if Facebook’s news feed feature, which aggregates disparate profile information into a single view, reduces page views (and more...
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