Solution Watch Joins Web 2.0 Workgroup

The Web 2.0 Workgroup has been busy! Their announcement came earlier this week (starting with TechCrunch, Read/Write Web, and WeBreakStuff), followed by Dave Winer and his TheTwoWayWeb joining Wednesday, and now Solution Watch joins in on the fun.
I’ve previously not been familiar with the site but its author, Brian Benzinger, describes it as
…a site [...]

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SearchFox Listens

As a beta tester of SearchFox RSS, I’ve received several email announcements from the SearchFox Product Manager Esteban Kozak. Esteban has done an outstanding job keeping his testers informed of new features the SearchFox team has been adding to SearchFox RSS. The latest feature pushes towards addressing one of the five things I think web [...]

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Memeorandum and Blogniscient

Want to read “the most relevant items from thousands of news sites and weblogs” or to “find the needle in the blog haystack” - memeorandum and Blogniscient are your answers.
These aren’t blog search engines like Technorati and IceRocket. Instead they aim to give a snapshot of the blogosphere’s biggest buzz by highlighting the topics and [...]

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The Benefits of AJAX Quantified

A new article entitled Measuring the Benefits of Ajax by Alexei White on developer.com attempts to understand how AJAX technology can affect the bottom line. White writes,

Often, in business, decision makers are interested mainly in how information technology can reduce costs, or make better use of information assets. The benefits of Ajax seem to come more [...]

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Blogoposium 2 - Lessons Learned from Web 1.0

“The one thing we have learned from history is that we don’t learn from history.”

- Winston Churchill

Last week, I voiced some of my concerns about Web 2.0 in a post entitled The Great Web and Web 2.0. Essentially, it spoke to the need for us to ask two questions about Web 2.0 investments - determining [...]

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Google Search is so Web 1.0

I’ve been beta testing wink over the last week. As opposed to other search engines (until today), wink combines the idea of search and tagging, in that order. Their motto is “People. Powered. Search.” At its core, wink is powered by Google search. Over time, however, people rate and tag results, thus in theory making wink a better, ‘people [...]

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What do I do for a living?

After the second session of my Ultimate Marketing System I took a step back from what I’ve been attempting to do through TECHNOSIGHT to ask myself, “What is it that I do for a living?”
John believes that the answer to this question is critical in communicating the real value of your service or product to your clients. It’s simply not [...]

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