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Posts Tagged Web 2.x

Great tips for starting an online business in 2008!

2008 will be the year ‘web 2.o’ grows up, matures and becomes something more useful, rather than just being there to waste time at work. The Financial Times has a profile of French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur today, along with some well-thought out suggestions for starting a new business in the near year:

Don’t wait for [...]


NEW Open web API, Open Social

Ning, is participating in this week’s launch of a new open web API called Open Social, which is being spearheaded by Google and joined by a wide range of partners including Google’s own Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster, Salesforce.com, Oracle, iLike, Flixster, RockYou, and Slide.


Are tech blogs, and the entire web2.0 industry, rigged?

It’s been suspected for a long time now that high profile a-list technology blogs (which include web2.0 and SEO blogs) are heavily influenced by outside sources that pay the author to create favourable reviews of other websites. Geek News Central and Odd Time Signatures have both touched on this subject over the last couple of [...]


Are these the top 15 Web 2.0 Startups in Europe?

ReadWriteWeb have just published a short article about the Top 15 Web 2.0 Startups in Europe.


TechCrunch UK returns, but can it compete with Vecosys?

TechCrunch UK is returning to the blogosphere! After what seems an eternity, TechCrunch UK has announced that they are now looking to employ a new journalist blogger to relaunch their UK presence. Since the technology blog closed down last year, their RSS readership has almost doubled from it was when it was live. However, during [...]


Getty scoops ‘Scoopt’ Citizen Photojournalism Photo Site

It was reported about a month ago by CNET News.com that Getty had acquired Scoopt, a user generated news-centric photolicensing service. This was around the same time that Getty’s purchase of Jupiter Media fell through. What’s interesting about this acquisition is that a corporate giant such as Getty seriously believes that user generated citizen photojournalism [...]


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