A Delicious Secret Sauce

Less than a week after the service’s third birthday, social book­marking service del.icio.us has announced an important mile­stone on its blog:

…del.icio.us has just passed the mark of 1 million registered users! That’s more than triple the number of users we had just nine months ago. We can hardly believe it ourselves (although the smell of smoke

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Another Hype Cycle

I have to recom­mend Geek and Poke:

Writely Getting Tightly

More tightly integ­rated with its owner, that is. I’ve always wondered how Writely was supposed to make any money. Today’s email brings a clue. New users or the users you invite to col­lab­orate on doc­u­ments will need to get them­selves a gmail/​​gcalendar/​​gpersonalised account to par­ti­cipate. Good move, I think. Writely is a cool tool, but it’s a poor vehicle

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More Lists; Less Thinking

Tim O’Reilly says “Web 2.0 is not about these bubble com­panies, it’s about the new approaches we are trying.” Try has he might to focus on lever­aging and inter­secting data­bases, the world prefers lists of sites with funny names. Perhaps we ought to call this the digg world to avoid confusion.

Wired news

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More Web 2.0 is Better… Sometimes

What’s the business case for Web 2.0 tech­no­lo­gies? Well, it depends on your business. For news­paper pub­lishers, the answer appears to be that more is better. You may recall from an earlier post that the Guardian news­paper website tops the league in the UK for Web 2.0 features (research con­ducted by Robin

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Bye Bye Blogrolls

Forgive me, but it’s time for me to indulge in a ‘how cool is this!?’ post. Grazr is a very nifty solution to RSS and Blogrolls in a widget. It can work from either a single RSS feed or an OPML file. Pity you can’t add or remove sub­scrip­tions on the fly, but you can’t have everything.

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