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  • Enterprise wikis reviewed update

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    Things move fast in the Web 2.0 world! Only a couple of weeks back I wrote a review of Enterprise Wiki software in which I mentioned PBWiki and Socialtext amongst others. I like Socialtext and would have recommended it had PBWiki not just shipped its new interface. The PBWiki interface is friendlier and easier to…

  • iPhone and iPod Touch leading to huge increase in mobile web browsing

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    Two stories being reported today point to how Apple got it right with the iPhone/iPod Touch. In the first story, coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, EE Times is reporting that: A blue-ribbon panel of human behavior and technology experts at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain agreed that the best…

  • OpenSocial signs up MySpace and SixApart too!

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    I mentioned earlier in the week that Google was about to launch OpenSocial, a Social Network API platform. Since then Mike Arrington in TechCrunch is reporting that not only is it happenning but MySpace, Bebo and SixApart are on board too! The OpenSocial site is now live and confirmed participants so far are: Engage.com, Friendster,…

  • Microsoft buys 1.6% of FaceBook for $240m

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    The New York Times is reporting this morning that Microsoft has bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240m, this values the company at $15bn. This values Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 23 year old founder at $3bn and Accel Partners, the venture capital firm that invested $12.7 million in May 2005 now owns 11 percent of…

  • A sad day for Internet freedoms in China

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    If this were any other country you wouldn’t believe it but the Great Firewall of China has started re-directing traffic from the three major search engines (Yahoo!, Live.com and Google) to the Chinese owned search engine Baidu.com! Other sites such as YouTube.com and Google’s BlogSearch are reportedly also being re-directed. China has previously blocked sites…

  • First Gphones shipping?

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    Rumour has it that the first 50,000 Gphones will ship from Taiwanese handset-maker HTC‘s manufacturing facility before the end of the year. While 50,000 may seem like a modest number, “These initial phones are not going to be for sale,” Benjamin Schachter, one of the [UBS] analysts who worked on the report, said in a…

  • Google launch video ads (kinda)

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    Good friend Marshall Kirkpatrick broke the news yesterday that Google were going to start offering video ads to people publishing ads using Google’s Adsense program. I use Adsense to publish the few ads that are on this site. The official announcement on the Adsense blog contains a non-functioning video (not a good start) and the…

  • Congrats to the guys in Jaiku

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    I see Jaiku were bought by Google yesterday. What is Jaiku? Jaiku is what Twitter would be if it worked reliably and had neat functionality. I’m delighted for them. If you don’t currently have a Jaiku account then you may be out of luck because in the notification email sent out by Jaiku last night…