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March 2009 Archives

Status.net Could Point to the Future of Business Intelligence
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 30, 2009 6:09 PM / 23 Comments
Few companies have captured the world's attention online in recent years as much as Twitter has. Rapid, structured, public communication between groups of people is not only a personal paradigm Continue reading »


Microsoft Announces End of the Road for Encarta
Written by Phil Glockner / March 30, 2009 5:16 PM / 14 Comments
Microsoft's years-long-running multimedia CD-based encyclopedia product, Encarta, will be history by the end of the year. According to Ars Technica, Microsoft quietly announced the discontinuation date for Encarta to be Continue reading »


Setster: Let Your Clients Pick Their Own Appointment Times
Written by Phil Glockner / March 30, 2009 2:37 PM / 13 Comments
Setster is a new service, still in beta, that allows businesses to let their clients or customers book appointments with them directly through an online calendar widget. Setster supports working Continue reading »


Reframe It Brings Facebook, Twitter, & Web Luminaries to its Annotation Tool
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 30, 2009 1:00 PM / 6 Comments
Reframe It, a social web annotation tool we first reviewed last Fall, just announced that it has added integration with Twitter and Facebook to its features today. Thanks to this, Continue reading »


Look Out TinyURL; Bit.ly Gets Hot Silicon Valley Cash
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 30, 2009 11:42 AM / 27 Comments
Link shortening services are so common you can't throw a stone online without hitting one, but TinyURL is the undisputed champ. It's one of the oldest, its name says what Continue reading »


RWW Live: The Local & Mobile Web
Written by Richard MacManus / March 30, 2009 10:00 AM / 0 Comments
One of the big trends on the web is more and more location aware / sensitive web applications. Increasingly powerful mobile devices are enabling this. In the latest episode of Continue reading »


MySpace and Microsoft Bring OpenSocial to Windows Mobile
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 30, 2009 9:46 AM / 4 Comments
MySpace just announced that it will bring its Open Platform to Windows Mobile phones. The new MySpace mobile application for Windows Mobile will be built on top of Microsoft's Silverlight Continue reading »


Google Brings Free Music Downloads to China
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 30, 2009 8:51 AM / 7 Comments
Early in 2008, Google, in cooperation with Chinese online music service Top100.cn, started a free music download service in China. Today, Google took the beta label off this service and Continue reading »


Skype May Be The Biggest Winner From The Web 2.0 Era
Written by Bernard Lunn / March 29, 2009 8:30 PM / 62 Comments
Skype does not get the respect it deserves, because eBay not only publicly admitted to overpaying for it but is making a mess of its core business. Another reason may Continue reading »


Cartoon: Netbooks
Written by Rob Cottingham / March 28, 2009 9:28 PM / 6 Comments
It seems everyone and their dog is coming out with a netbook. Verizon and AT&T are the latest entrants in the race to produce the itsy-bitsiest, teeny-weeniest, underpoweredest laptop on Continue reading »


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