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There’s big action in search engines these days: see Web Worker Daily’s list of 11 alternative search engines, Read/Write Web’s top 100, and the GigaOM show’s opening question to Google’s (GOOG) Marissa Mayer about the spate of search engine competitors.
But even as would-be Googles aim at the apparent heart of search — the keyword [...]

Jason Calacanis launched yet another discussion of the future of the web with his official definition of web 3.0, in which web 2.0 cake is spread with a liberal frosting of people, but not just any people — “gifted” people. Aside from its introduction of magnet-school speak into tech talk, this [...]

Economy watchers see recession as more likely after Friday’s weak jobs data. What does this mean for Web 2.0 hopefuls, now readying themselves for the fall conference season and dreaming of a Club Penguin style acquisition?
The job numbers suggest generalized weakness not confined to a few sectors. The problems began with subprime mortgages and [...]

A bunch of venture capitalists, angel investors, and startup founders got together today for a one-day conference. A scene from San Francisco? Nope. Boulder, Colo. At the TechStars investor day, ten startup companies selected for a summer of learning, growing, and mountain beauty presented their achievements and their plans as the three-month long program came [...]

When Richard MacManus published an overview of the so-called Web OS market almost a year ago, he said, “a lot of people don’t consider a WebOS to be a real operating system, but I think that’s semantics and not something worth debating.” It seems many developers of these web-based windowing and application platforms agree with [...]

Adobe announced the public alpha of its Apollo development framework that allows developers to build cross-platform hybrid web/desktop applications using Flash and Ajax. The tech blogosphere responded mostly positively, looking forward to the era of so-called rich Internet applications that’s been predicted for some time and to the possibility of web applications used offline.
The alpha [...]