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E-consultancy reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair paid a visit to Silicon Valley on Sunday: Hopefully the PM will have left with some ideas about how to create an environment in which dotcom and tech start-ups can flourish here in the UK. The visit saw Blair urged to set up his own blog, as well to The largest and perhaps the most daring Web 2.0 project is the Wikipedia. This online encyclopedia is free and it is created through contributions by its users. You or I write and submit articles on a subject of interest, and then other users, rather than officiating editors, add to and correct those articles. With millions of I like Flock, the social web browser. The integration with blogs, photo-sharing and online bookmarking sites is really well done. And the design looks fantastic. Having a built-in RSS reader is a great bonus and miles ahead of Firefox’s Live Bookmarks or the weird and unintuitive use of feeds in Thunderbird or Opera. So am Wondered about Yahoo! and China? Censored search results? Shopping journalists to a communist state machine? Here’s what a company spokesperson told me: “Yahoo! opposes the punishment of any person on the grounds of what may be called free speech. We firmly oppose that. However, we have to abide by the local laws of whatever country we More long-tail criticism from The Register, which isn’t very taken with the whole 2.0 thing. |             | |||
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