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Tim O’Reilly announced this morning that O’Reilly and CMP are spinning off their Web 2.0 conference so the little people can participate too. The four-day “Web 2.0 Expo” will be held next April at Moscone, with a tech conference, tutorials, and a trade show floor. We didn’t realize this, but apparently the official Web 2.0 [...]

It’s hump day in August. A few tidbits:

YouSendIt, one of the personal P2P services, has upgraded its system. You can now send up to 100 MB for free (is this a downgrade? didn’t it used to be a gig?) with 100 downloads per file. The company also sells a $4.99/month ad-free service as well as [...]

Webshots, the online photo-sharing granddaddy, is releasing a major redesign of its site tonight. We’d thought this was happening tomorrow, but a little bird told us it was already live. The site seems to be in transition as we write…some parts updated, some parts not. Webshots, owned by CNET, has made itself prettier and easier [...]

A few days ago when Google announced what is a precursor to Google Office, many saw it as a big move against the long term nemesis, Microsoft. We read things differently, and don’t really believe that it is going to have much of an impact. However, today’s news of Google CEO Eric Schmidt joining the [...]

Why did World of Warcraft from Blizzard Studios become such a monster success, and how can other online game companies replicate it? Industry analyst DFC Intelligence just published a great report that explains the former while tossing ice water on the latter. Provocatively entitled, “Is It Possible to Surpass World of Warcraft?”, [...]

As we march ever closer to the opening rounds in this holiday season’s battle for console supremacy, I’ve blogged about the financial prospects for Nintendo (quite good) and Sony’s Playstation 3 (not so good), but I’ve yet to put Microsoft’s Xbox 360 under any serious scrutiny.
To do that, I called in my longtime colleague Dean [...]