Technology Review (Germany) talks about the Web 2.0 summit and upcoming tech companies

source:
http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/97731/1/0
Mentioned in this article are:
Microsoft – advertisment 
Google – widgets
(Yahoo – with karaoke site bix )
facebook with open APIs, ok we all know
myspace, yes that is nothing new,
AWS, ok we know this too,
but
TWINE is a cool new thing
http://www.twine.com/
and WUALA
http://wua.la/en/home.html
and
http://www.stickam.com/
 also
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hauptseite
or the videos site Veoh where the quality is much better than on youtube
http://www.veoh.com/
or to keep your videos
http://keepvid.com/
also a [...]

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After Tim O’reilly talked on network effects..here are some good articles on this topic

good book from Shapiro and Varian
Information Rules. A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
http://www.amazon.de/Information-Rules-Strategic-Network-Economy/dp/087584863X
Scientific article from Shapiro and Varian
http://www.inforules.com/models/m-net.pdf.pdf
Nice overview
http://oz.stern.nyu.edu/io/network.html
Book from shy Oz: The Economics of Network Industries
http://www.ozshy.com/
16 pages pdf on that
http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/00952/sample/9780521800952ws.pdf
Carl Shapiro :
COMPETITION POLICY IN THE INFORMATION ECONOMY
http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/comppolicy.pdf

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ARS Technica on Windows 7

1 Hour video about the next version of windows codnamed “7″
Blog entry
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071021-core-of-windows-7-taking-shape-meet-the-minwin-kernel.html
Video
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/video/UIUC-ACM-RP07-Traut.wmv

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New cool web 2.0 money management

It is the Techcrunch something winner and it is really the best idea I saw in the last month. After hundreds of Google Earth Mashups a cool idea
http://mint.com/

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Taxes on internet trade and virtual worlds

Download my thesis as pdf:
http://de.geocities.com/michaelaltendorf80/Diplomarbeit_MA.pdf

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Internet Taxation and Virtual Worlds

 
Schafft das Internet neue Probleme für die Theorie und Praxis der Besteuerung?
Theoretische Hintergründe, praktische Probleme
und erste steuerpolitische Lösungsansätze
   
Diplomarbeit
für die Prüfung Diplom-Volkswirt
eingereicht beim Prüfungsausschuss für Diplom-Volkswirte
der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der
Universität Heidelberg
2007
  
von
Michael Altendorf  

Eidesstattliche Erklärung

„Hiermit versichere ich, dass ich die vorliegende Arbeit selbstständig und ohne unerlaubte fremde Hilfe verfasst habe, und dass [...]

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Taxation of Virtual Worlds debate continue part II

Dan Miller from Joint Economic Committee talked on Metanomics on Monday about taxing virtual worlds.
reuters stated that there were some hints, that JEC ist not introducing new taxes but IRS could see Virtual trades at some kind of barter exchange
for further details watch the conversation at slcn.tv
or read it at metaversed
http://metaversed.com/
or Reuters
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/10/08/congress-to-second-life-no-new-taxes/
For Germany the solution [...]

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SAP buys Business Objects No 1 Business Intelligence company

Read it in the news:
SAP to buy Business Objects BusinessWeek
SAP to Acquire Business Objects in Friendly Takeover; Combined … CNNMoney.com
SAP buys Business Objects for €4.8bn Financial Times

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Tim O’Reilly talks about Sap Web 2.0 and Network effects

read this good article at:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/sap_web_20.html
Watch also the TechED Videos from this week!

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Julian Dibbell spoke at Metaversed yesterday

As you can see on the image: The audience is growing with every event.

You can also watch the meetings at http://slcn.tv/

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