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The widget sites are coming

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26 August 2006
In my August 14 "The widget network is still an open market" I talked about the lack of widget sites on the internet. Well, they are coming. Widgetbox.com has just launched though interestingly has gone for a selling premium widgets over an advertising business model.

Tagged with Linkage, News, Start-Ups

Web 2.0 from the people that shaped it

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15 August 2006
Techcrunch recently published a video entitled "Web 2.0: The 24 Minute Documentary" which was a video consisting of a group of CEOs from start-ups talking about web 2.0 and answering the questions...

# What is Web 2.0?
# Are we in a bubble?
# What are the business models that will work on the web today?
# What is the role of publishers in a user generated world?
# How important and how big is the early adopter crowd?

I think these are great discussion topics and as some of you may notice, I've already blogged my own thoughts on some of these topics. It's interesting to hear what some of the people that have shaped it think about the subject.

Tagged with Linkage, Videos, Web 2.0

Are browsers without a future?

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12 August 2006
While reading over the Web 2.0 Explorer blog over on ZDNet recently I came across a blog post by Tara Hunt on her blog entitled R.I.P. browsers laying out the case for the death of web browsers.

While Richard McManus makes some good counterpoints on ZDNet, I think Tara is to a large extent correct in the points she puts - most Web 2.0 applications are replicating the function we already have on our desktops so if we already have the functionality on our desktops, why not just connect these apps to the internet rather than re-building them entirely.

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