more new things today: Fire Eagle and LBS information broker and the Google Contact API

With this thing you could e.g. sync Gmail contacts with your mobile phonne
http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2008/03/3-2-1-contact-api-has-landed.html
Here is a video of fire eagle
http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/fire_eagle_launches.html
The source I found this once again: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_releases_contacts_api.php I think McManus is now No1 in Web 2.0 and Scobe and Mr Arrington and outstrip them both in 2008 in being the first who announces new cool stuff. but [...]

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Differences between Google and Yahoo

This link just was recommended by Mike A. from Techcrunch:
http://weblogs.hitwise.com/us-heather-hopkins/2008/02/yahoo_search_draws_younger_aud.html
It shows the cultural and sociological differences between Google and Yahoo users – It shows only differences in USA and Yahoo users are not as rich as Google users. This proves also the fact that Google makes much more money from its traffic through advertisment. Although [...]

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John Battelle’s predictions – 2008

http://battellemedia.com/archives/004172.php
As the same procedure as last year John Bartelle made some predictions for the new year. They are really interesting and I can agree to most of his statements. Particularly the point that the mobile Internet needs one more year to have its break through, although all mobile phone companies evangalize mobile internet for this [...]

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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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Web companies working on next generation Social Networks

I am not which features they are going to add but to compete with myspace and facebook they need to have some very fancy feature to get the people change to other networks. Facebook and MySpace both enhance their platforms continuously wih new features e.g. a twitter like information service..
from Mr Techcrunch Michael Arrington yesterday:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/08/google-yahoo-both-working-on-next-generation-social-networks/
Google, [...]

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New search engine claims to be better than Google

Beta will be released in a few weeks. I am excited if it is really better…

Mylivesearch aims for beta to better
 

May 29, 2007
From:  http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/beta-than-google/2007/05/28/1180205158835.html?page=2 Nick Miller talks to Rob Gabriel, who claims his search engine gives better results than Google.
Photo: Robert Gabriel is living the dream with his new search engine. Picture; Rodger Cummins
Photo: Rodger CumminsAdvertisement [...]

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Ways to monetize Youtube from Scobeleizer

from: Google to Yahoo and Microsoft: the $1.65 billion was worth it
Ahh, now you all understand what I meant when I said YouTube is a moat, not a revenue generator. By putting YouTube results into Google’s main engine Google ensures it will have better searches than Yahoo and Microsoft (who were, truth be told, getting damn [...]

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Flickr Vision

Ok, I don’t wanna repeat O`Reilly but Flickrvision is really a cool feature, but why is it mashed up with google and not yahoo`?
Check it: http://flickrvision.com/

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Meet Goog-Azon, world dominator circa 2016 -are you also afraid?

Perhaps I should built a shop at Google, but for what? How is SAP reaction to this in future? is it necessary to watch consumer internet shopping trends=?
from : http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4936

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