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The GGG: For Plane Trips More than People

Anne Zelenka, Friday, November 23, 2007 at 8:46 AM PT Comments (18)

Semantic web believers including Tim Berners-Lee and Nova Spivack like to say that the social graph is part of their semantic world: the Giant Global Graph (GGG) as coined by Tim Berners-Lee. But the Giant Global Graph itself is like Dustin Hoffman’s autistic savant character Raymond Babbitt in the 1988 movie Rain Man. Raymond knew [...]

Giving Thanks for…Facebook?

Anne Zelenka, Thursday, November 22, 2007 at 6:00 AM PT Comments (9)

In this season of giving thanks, Netizens feel grateful for the sense of connectedness and reconnectedness brought by online social networks. The big news, after all, isn’t that our Facebook profiles will soon turn into virtual Tupperware parties but rather that we can use them to stay in touch.
Bungee Labs executive and former Microsoft [...]

Find Travel Buddies with YowTRIP

Anne Zelenka, Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 12:00 PM PT Comments (2)

YowTRIP will demonstrate its social networking site for frequent travelers next month at The Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup. Yes, Dopplr is already doing social networking for travelers, but YowTRIP uses destinations to create new social connections rather than just enhancing existing ones.
Dopplr works well for people who travel frequently for business and want to [...]

404 Pages: The Bad, the Good and the Poetic

Anne Zelenka, Monday, November 19, 2007 at 10:08 AM PT Comments (9)

Nearly one in four of the top 100 web sites in the U.S., including Google and YouTube, have 404 error pages largely devoid of any helpful information, in some cases not even the name of site you were (unsuccessfully) trying to access, according to Royal Pingdom.
GigaOM’s 404 error page met both of Royal Pingdom’s [...]

How Amazon Could Kindle Some Interest in E-books

Anne Zelenka, Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 1:39 PM PT Comments (40)

Wouldn’t it have been cool if Amazon built an e-book reader so inexpensive they could almost give it away for free, then make money by selling e-books for people to read on it (or selling upscale versions of the reader later)? Instead, they stuffed it so full of technological wizardry that it costs $399.
Most [...]

In the Kitchen with Web 2.0

Anne Zelenka, Friday, November 16, 2007 at 7:30 AM PT Comments (6)

Next week, those of us here in the U.S. will celebrate our annual Feast of Gluttony…er, I mean Thanksgiving, a time devoted to expressing gratitude for all the good things in our lives, including — and in some cases especially — really yummy food. And thus begins six weeks of cooking, baking, and yes, more [...]

Oracle’s Social Web Debut

Anne Zelenka, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 8:00 PM PT Comments (16)

Oracle made its official debut on the social web party scene this week at the Oracle OpenWorld 2007 conference in San Francisco. Previously a Web 2.0 wallflower, the database and business applications company has joined the scene with gusto, launching social networking for its customers and employees, deploying a customer wiki with WetPaint — [...]

The Secret to Success: Developers, Users, or Hype?

Anne Zelenka, Monday, November 12, 2007 at 5:00 PM PT Comments (12)

Google’s apparently thinking that by attracting developers they can give Android, their mobile phone platform, the best chance at success. Targeting developers, though, is not the only way to find success with new technology: some companies succeed by going directly after users while others ride on waves of hype.
Apple chose user-led success with the iPhone, [...]

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