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Listible and the Droste Effect

February 14, 2006 Blogging

My thanks to Marjolein Hoekstra who left this comment on my  recent Web 2.0 article: The nice thing about your mentioning this Web 2.0 Products and Services Lineup is that the list itself is hosted by a new Web 2.0 service called Listible, where you can create your own lists, tag them with keywords and [...]

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The Lineup of Web 2.0 Products and Services

February 13, 2006 Blogging

Here is yet another listing of all the new Web 2.0 websites and related applications. I have no idea how complete it is, but setting that aside, it’s a big list and the author put a lot of time into compiling it so nicely. Worth browsing through to familiarize yourself with the ‘new’ way of [...]

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"5 Tips for Promoting Your Blog to Popular Bloggers" – by Peter Davidson

February 12, 2006 Blogging

Peter Davidson penned an excellent summary of what I’ve found myself saying to new bloggers. It would only be fair to point you to his article where he so deftly explains five key points: Participate – You need to seriously read and participate in conversations on blogs. Leave relevant, value-adding comments. Use trackbacks where appropriate. Link [...]

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The Importance of Reputation Monitoring

February 11, 2006 Blogging

The Economist magazine recently published a mature, proactive perspective you can use when thinking about your company’s blogger(s) and the impact they have … and the impact other bloggers can have on your company. Are you watching? Do you monitor what others are saying about your company? http://economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5501039 In the blogosphere, a corporation’s next big critic could [...]

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Tech.Memeorandum.com – Excellent Tech News Aggregator

February 10, 2006 Blogging

Experience the Tech.Memeorandum site, but give it some time to soak in. Here’s the deal: news is happening all the time, but more often than not the traditional news services are days out of synch with what’s going on. Bloggers, in many cases, are commenting on breaking news moment-to-moment. You remember how with Hurricane Katrina [...]

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Blurb Inc.: For Everyone Who Has a Story To Tell

February 8, 2006 Blogging

Blurb Inc. today announced its newly launched start-to-finish publishing software and service company designed to meet the demands of anyone and everyone who wants to publish a book. For not a lot of cash you can own that cookbook, photo album, travelogue, poetry collection or novel you’ve always dreamed of authoring. “Holding a professionally printed [...]

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Where Are All the Web 2.0 Innovations Located?

February 4, 2006 Blogging

This is just too cool. You can thumb through all the ‘news guys on the block’ with regards to Web 2.0 innovation and see exactly where they are located on a Google Map. The paragraph below is pulled from http://www.fourio.com/web20map/. — About the Web 2.0 Innovation Map The Web 2.0 Innovation Map grew out of [...]

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Alan Runyan and the Rise of Plone – an Open Source CMS

December 4, 2005 Blogging

For those of you who are into Plone … listen to this podcast at http://www.talkingportraits.com .   On this show you will meet Alan Runyan, CEO and President of Enfold Systems Inc . in Houston, Texas. Alan is one of three very creative and highly motivated individuals who spawned this ‘Plone CMS’ idea and helped [...]

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The City of Austin is Going Plone

November 8, 2005 Blogging

Here’s part of a blurb I received today: The City of Austin, Texas, is implementing Plone, both Intranet and Internet!  It’s a big project and we’ll need skilled people.  There will be training available.  Help us get back on the digital map. http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/jobapp/jobs_detail.cfm?Requisition_ID=11589 The job listing is for a Programmer Analyst C in the city’s Communications Technology Management [...]

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Nokia Announces Open Source Project Site

November 3, 2005 Blogging

Well, yeehaw! Nokia is publically moving forward on various Open Source projects, and guess what? Their new website for this effort is in Plone (an Open Source CMS). Now that’s walking the talk. Their new site is http://OpenSource.Nokia.com. Check out the list of projects already in progress. I haven’t been much of a fan of [...]

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