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There's an old well-worn addage that says, "The customer is always right." On the surface, it means that you should always strive to provide good customer service. But on a

GeoXtract is a powerful tool that allows you to integrate your own data with Google Maps or Google Earth. Using this desktop application, you can create a personalized map with

As a Web (2.0) consultant and analyst (about me), I track a variety of market segments and products. Luckily for me, nowadays I don't have to do as much grunt

This week Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! for a staggering $350M. It seems like only yesterday that Zimbra was the buzz of the 2005 Web Conference. But in two years,

Last.fm is generally acknowledged to be one of the best web apps of this era - its music recommendation system literally creates a personalized radio station for you. But the

I've noticed some excellent techie posts lately, so I feel duty-bound to point them out. Phil Pearson, XML expert Kimbro Staken and Movable Type consultant Chad Everett have been working

Just launched today is a new Twitter mashup called Twitlinks. This one aggregates the latest links posted to Twitter by tech industry pundits. The end result is a homepage that

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus Metacritic, now a property of CNET, has been around since before the last bubble burst. The site has a unique system

DataMashups.com is the latest Ajax-based web app development service to be released. It's a hosted service for developers and offers an integrated development environment "to rapidly create mashups and web

Gartner recently released a couple of reports on how web 2.0 technologies are being used in e-Government. The reports are entitled The E-Government Hype Cycle Meets Web 2.0 and Government