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• Delicious, version 2.0

  Friday, August 1st, 2008

  del.icio.us has just become Delicious. Faster and easier. And, I hope to be at least same useful as it was the previous version.
  Yahoo! blog lists some of the improved characteristics of the new web site: speed (new platform), search(faster, more powerful, smarter), design changed user interface, usability).
  They says that they [...]

• Google Knol, the paid Wikipedia

  Thursday, July 24th, 2008

  Writers has now a good occasion to make profit. Google launched this week Google Knol, the user-generated encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. And every author can earn money from his work, depending on the hits of his articles
  Google official blog says that “Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people [...]

• Google to buy Digg

  Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

  It’s time for Digg. It has ad agreement with Microsoft, but Google want it. And not for ads, but for its concept and users.
  Digg has very specific community of users/members, not invaded yet by commercial reasons. It is made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by [...]

• The digital Europe - i2010 Initiative

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  Preparing Europe’s digital future i2010 Mid-Term Review {SEC(2008) 470}
  INTRODUCTION

  Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to be a major driver of economic and social modernisation. Today, businesses in the EU devote 20% of investment to ICTs, and the sector accounts for 26% of overall research expenditure. Moreover, 60% of basic public services [...]

• Google Friend Connect, rejected

  Saturday, May 17th, 2008

  Facebook doesn’t like Google Friend Connect, so it blocked this service from accessing Facebook members’ data.
  Charlie Cheever says the Friend Connect violates Facebook’s terms of service because it “redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge“. So, “we’ve reached out to Google several times about this issue, [...]

• Turn your site into a social network: Google Friend Connect

  Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

  Replacing the thousands of social networks with a single big social network? No, but a golden mine, maybe the best service of Google for me and my 287 web sites and tens of blogs, every one with its own users till now.
  So, from now on any of us can have his own social [...]

• Yahoo join the mobile market with oneConnect

  Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

  If I’d had enough money I’d invest it right now in the mobile industry. It is a real explosion, many of the biggest Internet companies are interested now in this market.
  Yahoo announced on Tuesday the launch of a new services called oneConnect that will aggregate mobile [...]

• MySpace between developers and angry users

  Thursday, January 31st, 2008

  MySpace tries to wake up and keep its leader position, by opening its doors to the developers, as did Facebook and many other social networks. Beginning with next week, on February 5, the site will become fully operational with documentation and API tools for developers to build and test applications [...]

• Google and Yahoo! top search keywords for 2007

  Monday, January 14th, 2008

  Big differences between the two statistics for top search keywords for the last year. It seems that Yahoo! search was used mainly for entertainment, while US people searched with Google for a more diversified terms, especially social networks.
  As specified by MandarinMusing.com:
  Google fastest rising U.S. search terms for 2007:

  iPhone: a [...]

• My predictions for the new year 2008

  Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

  Due to the global warming with increased effects for this year, the developed states will change their national strategies by taking into account these aspects, and we will see important geopolitical changes.
  United States will try to overcome the economical crisis by extending its influence in new areas, but it will encounter a [...]

• To ban the Spirit

  Saturday, December 8th, 2007

  More and more countries, governmental departments and companies start banning the most influential social networks. It starts with YouTube (Beijing, Thailand, Morocco, Australia, US governmental departments, etc.), MySpace, Facebook, and some days ago, in accordance with Mashable, Twitter, banned by the United Arab Emirates.

  The official reason of this ban [...]