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• Pageflakes Takes It Up a Notch

  Published: July 22, 2007, 1:41 pm

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  Last month, we named Pageflakes as one of 25 Web Sites to Watch. And if you were watching it last week, you noticed that this customizable, widget-driven home page--I think of it as one of the big three, along with...

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• Google Stuff: Not For Keeps

  Published: August 20, 2007, 1:36 pm

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  TechCrunch is reporting that some users of the GrandCentral phone number-aggregation service, which was bought by Google back in July, are getting e-mails from Google informing them that there are quality problems with their GrandCentral phone numbers. In response, their...

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• Office 2.0: Booming!

  Published: September 7, 2007, 12:47 pm

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  I'm spending most of my Thursday and Friday at Office 2.0, a conference here in San Francisco on the future of Web-based productivity. Last year's show was a bustling success. This one puts that one to shame, with most of...

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• TechCrunch40mania!

  Published: September 17, 2007, 3:08 pm

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  I'm at TechCrunch40, the conference incarnation of the highest-profile blog on Web 2.0 sites and services. So far, the show--which is at San Francisco's Palace hotel--is pretty much bursting at the seams with people and companies--actually, it's so crowded that...

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• More Web Stuff From TechCrunch40

  Published: September 17, 2007, 7:24 pm

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  I'm still at the bustlin' TechCrunch40 conference and have seen a bunch more Web-related demos. Some more thoughts: --In some ways, TripIt is one of the more mundane items that's been shown off so far, but it's also one of...

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• Facebook Apps: Fascinating and Boring at the Same Time

  Published: October 18, 2007, 2:18 pm

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  I'm still at the Web 2.0 Summit, where one of this morning's highlights was a panel on Facebook applications, moderated by my friend Dave McClure with participants from companies, such as Slide and iLike, that build services that live within...

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• OpenSocial: Google Opens Up Social Network Platforms

  Published: October 31, 2007, 8:42 pm

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  Here's news that's pleasing and intriguing: Google is about to announce a Web standard called OpenSocial designed to let every social network support that wants to enable the sort of Web-based social applications that have helped made Facebook the talk...

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• Surprise! MySpace Joins Google's OpenSocial Party

  Published: November 1, 2007, 10:34 pm

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  Yesterday, some pundits were dissing the social networks who were signing on to Google's OpenSocial application platform as a bunch of also-rans. Today, Google gave us a memorable Steve Jobsian "One more thing..." moment when it let loose that MySpace...

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• Knol: Google Ennui Sets In, at Least for Me

  Published: December 17, 2007, 1:26 am

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  Another day, another announcement of a Google service that competes with something (or somethings) already out there, with a twist. This time, it's Google Knol, a place for experts to write authoritative articles on topics of all sorts, complete with...

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• Apple and Fox: Rentals and DVD-to-iPod Transfers On Their Way?

  Published: December 27, 2007, 1:47 am

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  Like almost every Apple news that hasn't actually happened yet, it's rumor, not established fact. But the Financial Times is reporting that Apple has struck a deal with Fox that will result in new Fox movies being available for rent...

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• February 1st, 2008: The Day the Original Web Died

  Published: February 1, 2008, 11:32 pm

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  Back in late 1994--don't hold me to this, but I think it was November--I visited the World Wide Web for the first time. (In retrospect, that was early in the Web's history, but I felt like a latecomer, having known...

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• Microsoft-Yahoo: My Opinion and Yours

  Published: February 1, 2008, 11:07 am

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  Every once in awhile. a rumor festers for so long that it's startling when it turns into reality--as the idea of Microsoft buying Yahoo has now become. The behemoth of Redmond has launched an unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover attempt of...

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• Microsoft Makes Moving Friends Between Social Networks (Slightly) Easier

  Published: March 25, 2008, 1:19 pm

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  In my Techlog column in the May issue of our magazine--which subscribers will get in a week or so--I grouse that Facebook doesn't give me the ability to export my list of friends for use elsewhere. Damn you, print deadlines--there's...

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• How to "Get Twitter"

  Published: March 20, 2008, 1:06 am

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  Twitter may have more good buzz than any other Web service right now, but there's also no service that more people say they don't get--including some very smart. hip friends of mine. Check out this Google search for a surging...

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• The Frustratingly Unfulfilled Promise of Google Gears

  Published: April 7, 2008, 12:56 am

  Tags: Internet Networking >web Services

  Back on May 30th of last year, Google released Google Gears, a browser plug-in designed to help Web-based applications work even when they couldn't connect to the Internet. I was pretty jazzed up about it, and so were my PCW...

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