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Pluribo: Instant Summaries of Amazon Reviews
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 30, 2008 8:10 PM / 2 Comments
Pluribo is a Firefox plugin that displays short summaries of product reviews on Amazon.com. Pluribo scans through reviews customers on Amazon have left and automatically creates a one sentence summary Continue reading »


Collaborative Filtering: Lifeblood of The Social Web
Written by Muhammad Saleem / June 30, 2008 2:48 PM / 20 Comments
Collaborative Filtering (Wikipedia definition) is a mechanism used to filter large amounts of information by spreading the process of filtering among a large group of people. Unlike mainstream media where Continue reading »


Google Rebrands Performics: Launches Affiliate Network
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 30, 2008 11:50 AM / 13 Comments
Today, Google announced that it is rebranding DoubClick's Performics Affiliate as the Google Affiliate Network.  Google acquired DoubleClick in March 2008 for $3.1 Billion. The Google Affiliate Network is not Continue reading »


Microsoft Releases Interop Docs: Is This What Data Portability Looks Like?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 30, 2008 10:30 AM / 13 Comments
Microsoft is announcing this morning the release of thousands of pages of technical documents concerning its most prized software, with the stated goals of facilitating interoperability and data portability. Office, Continue reading »


Rhapsody Embraces DRM-Free MP3s: Another Nail in The Coffin of DRM
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 30, 2008 10:21 AM / 1 Comments
Real Networks' Rhapsody music service, which had only been a subscription service so far, is joining into the every expanding fray of music services selling DRM-free MP3 files. Real has Continue reading »


Google to Make History with Exclusive Animated Internet Series?
Written by Corvida / June 30, 2008 9:15 AM / 13 Comments
Google is getting some serious press, support, and power from Hollywood today. According to the New York Times, Google will be bringing on Seth MacFarlane, creator of the hilarious Continue reading »


Last.fm Launches API 2.0
Written by Sarah Perez / June 30, 2008 8:48 AM / 4 Comments
The popular social music service Last.fm features an API that lets anyone build their own programs using Last.fm data, whether those programs are on the web, on the desktop, or Continue reading »


Blog Networks: Like MyBlogLog for Facebook
Written by Sarah Perez / June 30, 2008 6:35 AM / 21 Comments
Blogs just got a whole new audience: the casual reader. There has been some concern as of late that mainstream web users don't really read blogs, but a new Facebook Continue reading »


Web 2.0 Start-Ups = Social Science Experiments
Written by Bernard Lunn / June 29, 2008 10:30 PM / 8 Comments
Recently I had the great pleasure to hear the inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, give the keynote at the Tetherless World Conference organized by Rensellaer Polytechnique Institute (RPI) Continue reading »


One of the Biggest Selling Points of the iPhone is the Mobile Apps
Written by Corvida / June 29, 2008 1:13 PM / 15 Comments
The launch of the 3G iPhone is a little over a week away. With all the promotion that Apple and AT&T are getting, other carriers and mobile handset developers Continue reading »


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