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Today Yahoo! Buzz unveils its Top Trends in Search for 2007 with the top ten news stories, top ten troubled celebrities, and the top ten in tech. But beyond those categories, Yahoo’s lists reminded me that web search is not simply about finding information; it’s often the launch point for action. No wonder advertisers continue [...]

Now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s time to start speculating about what will be hot and what will be not in 2008. After all, 2007 was not the Year of the Widget, despite what Newsweek predicted. If anything, it was the Year of Facebook. But what about that business networking contender, LinkedIn? Could 2008 be the year of business networking?

2007 was supposed to be the Year of the Widget, according to Newsweek, and Jon Swartz of USA Today apparently agrees that the promise has been fulfilled. He says:
[Widgets] are all the rage on the Web. Marketers are thinking of ways to use them to sell ads, and venture capitalists are mulling investments in the [...]

Sure small businesses benefit greatly from the proliferation of Web 2.0 offerings like Zoho’s online office suite and Mozy’s backup solutions. But software as a service (SaaS) provider 19Marketplace hopes that many small business owners will instead prefer one-stop shopping for hosted brand-name applications. In partnership with SaaS infrastructure provider Jamcracker, 19Marketplace today unveils Workplace2go, [...]

Today web-based word processor Zoho Writer moves further into Microsoft Word’s territory with the announcement of offline editing capabilities. Zoho enabled offline read-only review of documents in August. With features like this, Zoho’s office apps might someday entirely replace Microsoft Office in the toolbox of many web workers.
But other online word processors take what looks like [...]

Consumer sentiment in the U.S. is falling. People are planning to spend less for the holidays this year, pointing to higher energy prices and a bleak economic outlook. What if cranky consumers stop creating content for free even as they open up their wallets for Black Friday specials?
This version of the web is a follow-on [...]