Archive for April, 2007

Web 2.0 Directory

Posted on April 30, 2007. Filed under: Mashups, UI Design, Web 2.0 |

GO2WEB20.net is a fun way to explore the world of Web 2.0 solutions. The site uses a Flash/AJAX application to display almost 1,200 logos. You can quickly filter the display by keyword or you can select a tag from a tag cloud. As you roll-over each logo a tooltip displays the name and description [...]

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Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix

Posted on April 27, 2007. Filed under: APIs, Mashups, Web 2.0 |

ProgrammableWeb is where you can keep-up with what’s new and interesting with mashups, Web 2.0 APIs, and the new Web as Platform. The core of the site is the blog and the 4 dashboards: Home, Mashups, APIs, and Developers and is updated daily.
One really cool feature of the site is the Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix. The matrix [...]

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Identity 2.0

Posted on April 26, 2007. Filed under: Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, identity 2.0 |

I can’t estimate how many times I have registered with a new site (daily), enter credit card information, sign-up and/or log-in. There’s so many disparate sources that I need to communicate my identity to which brings up two important issues: Web single sign-on and data security.
Wouldn’t it be great if there was an authentication [...]

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Podcast Ad Service

Posted on April 24, 2007. Filed under: Podcasting, Web 2.0 |

They’re mostly in the elusive 18 – 34 demographic, and they don’t sit around watching TV. They go online, download the shows and videos they want, and then play them where and when they want. How can you can reach this “asynchronous” audience? Podcasts.
Podbridge provides an audio and video podcast and analytics [...]

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Google AJAX feed API

Posted on April 23, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, Web 2.0, widgets |

Today Google launched the Google AJAX Feed API, an API that allows users to develop mashups using only a few lines of JavaScript rather than dealing with complex server-side proxies.
The sample below uses the AJAX Feed API to display a rotating collection of iTunes RSS Feeds.
@import url(“http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/tunebar/gftunebar.css”);
#tunebar {
[...]

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Pageflakes Widgets

Posted on April 23, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, Web 2.0, widgets |

Pageflakes is an Ajax-based start page similar to My Yahoo!, Google Personalized Homepage, and Microsoft Live. The site is organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes containing information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, flickr photos and user-created modules.
Got Widgets?
Now you can make any Flake a widget. [...]

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Mobile Widgets

Posted on April 20, 2007. Filed under: Web 2.0, mobile, widgets |

WidSets is a free phone manufacturer-independent Internet service that multicasts preferred feeds and user-generated content to mobile devices. With it you can get mobile widgets, which are much like web widgets, or gadgets, with traffic alerts, news, blogs, gossip, restaurant reviews, weather reports and loads of other stuff that you would normally get through a [...]

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Video search engine

Posted on April 18, 2007. Filed under: Flash, Video, Web 2.0 |

Blinkx is an advanced video search engine. Fed by automatic spiders that crawl the web for audio video content and content partnerships with over 200 leading content and media companies, blinkx uses visual analysis and speech recognition to better understand rich media content. Users can search for content, create personal TV channels that automatically splice [...]

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BEA’s Enterprise 2.0 platform

Posted on April 17, 2007. Filed under: Podcasting |

Blogs, wikis, tagging and other social software have already infiltrated the consumer internet. These concepts are only being embraced by the early adopters in corporate/enterprise computing. “Enterprise 2.0” is the migration of Web 2.0 functionality into the enterprise.

BEA is bringing Web 2.0 tools to the enterprise and they call it En.terpri.se. The new [...]

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Hijax – The solution for ajax accessibility

Posted on April 16, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, Web 2.0 |

One of the prevalent buzz-words in Web 2.0 is “Ajax”. A term originally coined by interactive design guru and Adaptive Path founder Jessie James Garrett; Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. The idea that without Flash we can achieve “desktop application like” behavior – users can interact without refreshing the page - has become a key design [...]

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