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WTF? Origins of Five Popular Web 2.0 Terms 
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 09 Jan. 2009
Web 2.0 is pretty cool - so cool in fact that it's got its own buzzwords and lingo that not everybody knows. Everybody has a lot to gain from participation in this new cultural phenomenon, though, so there's no reason why everyone shouldn't know the background on the lingo. We did a lit
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Dandelife's Struggles Offer Lessons for Startups
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 08 Jan. 2009
Two year old life-story repository Dandelife seemed to have everything going for it. It launched to praise from some of the biggest tech blogs on the web, it built a wildly loyal user base and its company advisory board was stocked with some of the
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Bit.ly Plug-in Extends Tiny URLs, Shows Clickthrough Numbers
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 07 Jan. 2009
Our favorite URL shortening service, Bit.ly, has just released a Firefox plug-in that you'll probably want to add to your browser. It lets users hover over shortened URLs from a wide variety of services, including TinyURL, and see the resulting full URL - as well as how
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Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results?
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 07 Jan. 2009
In what appears to us to be a new addition to many Google search results pages, queries about birth dates, family connections and other information are now being responded to with explicitly semantic structured information. Who is Bill Clinton's wife? What's the capital city of Oregon? What is Britney Spears' mother's name? The a
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January Kicks Off With Cool Hires in Tech
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
The economy is depressing but there's no shortage of cool new individual hires in tech to report already this year. Mozilla, Dell, AOL Sports and some of our favorite startups have picked up new engineers and executives this week. The biggest tech job news of the New Year, though, may be that Lifehacker's long time editor Gina
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Co.mments Bites the Dust
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 06 Jan. 2009
Conversation tracking service Co.mments has announced this morning that it will cease operations at the end of the week, one month before its 3rd anniv
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Hype Machine Zeitgeist: Listen in Full to the 50 Most Blogged Albums of 2008, For Free
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Music mashup site shows how User Experience is done.
MP3 blog aggregator Hype Machine launched a new microsite today called the Music Blog Zeitgeist. There you can listen, for free,
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Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 05 Jan. 2009
Days after a wave of phishing attacks fooled thousands of Twitter users, it appears that another security hole has been found by...someone. Obama's account, unused since election day, sent out an affiliate link to a survey with a gas card prize, Fox News said that "Bill O'Reily is gay" (not tha
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Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 01 Jan. 2009
In the early days of blogging you could go to the Technorati Blog Index, enter some identifying terms for a particular niche topic and discover what the top blogs were in the field.
Identifying top niche blogs is invaluable knowledge for anyone wanting to ent
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How Common Craft Stopped Doing Client Work, In Plain English
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 29 Dec. 2008
Five years ago Lee LeFever was an online community manager for a B2B healthcare company called Solucient. Today, his voice has been heard by millions of people around the world, making strange new applications feel easy to use and offering some of the clearest explanations of how
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What Comes After SourceForge and SlashDot?
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 29 Dec. 2008
When your company owns the biggest open source code repository online, the most venerable geek news aggregator there is and many geeks' favorite place to shop for wacky stuff - what do you do next? Hopefully we're about to find out, because the owners of SourceForge,
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How to: Start Using Greasemonkey in Under 5 Minutes
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 26 Dec. 2008
Greasemonkey is a powerful Firefox add-on that lets you change the appearance and functionality of almost any page on the web. Most people don't know how to write JavaScript, though, so we end up using the Greasemonkey scripts developed by other people who do. There
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Twitter Finally Adds People Search - Other Search Options Still Needed
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 23 Dec. 2008
Twitter CEO Evan Williams just announced (on Twitter) that the service has finally launched a belated people search function. It doesn't work perfectly but logged in users will now have a much easier time finding other users by searching the name field for peoples' real names. It'
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FeedBurner Quits Blogging, Gets Eaten by AdSense
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 23 Dec. 2008
RSS and podcast publishing service FeedBurner has been a great friend to bloggers over the years but this morning announced that it will shut down its own blog
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Report Says Twitter Would Take 36 Years to Catch Facebook - If Facebook Stopped Growing Today
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Tue, 23 Dec. 2008
Marketing firm HubSpot will publish a report tomorrow on the state of Twitter at the end of 2008, based on user data the company harvested from its controversial app TwitterGrader. Though the report's methodology is
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Ping.fm Gets Backing from Reid Hoffman, Joi Ito
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 22 Dec. 2008
Who uses cross-posting social media app Ping.fm? A lot of people do, but now you can add LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Creative Commons Foundation Chairman
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Suits Up, Geeks Down: The Latest Tech Hiring Numbers
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Mon, 22 Dec. 2008
Hires of software developers and web designers slowed last week, while tech and new media company hires for Director level positions increased substantially over the six weeks prior. Developers and designers still remained among the season's most in-demand people in tech while marketing and IT firms saw big increases in hires.
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Capitol Words: What Your Congress Person Really Talks About
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 19 Dec. 2008
The Sunlight Foundation's mashup site Capitol Words relaunched this week and now offers a very handy way to see what keywords are being used in the US Congress in general and by particular congress members. If you pay only passing attention to po
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NPR Now Lets You Roll Your Own Podcast Feed
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Fri, 19 Dec. 2008
National Public Radio (NPR) here in the US has some great audio content and the offering got even better today with the release of a new "mix your own" podcast option. Users enter a list of categories and keywords and the NPR site dynamically gene
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Big Changes for Big Papers: In 2008 The Web Changed the Media For Good
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Thu, 18 Dec. 2008
Use of the internet by the top 100 US newspapers changed radically in 2008, according to the annual report of the industry released today by analysts The Bivings Group.
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