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Entries Tagged as 'web2.0'

CNN Money Taps New Media

January 22nd, 2008 No Comments

Web 2.0 rules. We’ve said this over and over again and it still does. Just take a look at the recent events in the world of Internet Finance reporting. AOL Money has introduced an innovation in their site. Their doing away with the mind-boggling graphs, which only finance whiz kids from Planet Dollars can understand.
CNN […]

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Ohloh: Open-Source Twice Over

January 20th, 2008 No Comments

Open Source tracking tool Ohloh is set to become an open source. That’s open sourcing twice over!
Ohloh is now opening its tracking and ranking tools and making it available for developers to use it and develop similar tools. The open source directory being tracked and maintained by Ohloh is already available for a large number […]

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Capturing Time Online

January 19th, 2008 No Comments

Wouldn’t it be great to track time online and compare the number of hours done with your peers? Timeexchange.net has the solution for this. It allows team members who are in different locations to track their time and the amount of work done for project management, implementation, and monitoring. 
Timeexchange simplifies the time reporting process and […]

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Comcast in Trouble for Blocking Sites

January 19th, 2008 No Comments

Some time ago, Comcast has started blocking peer-to-peer sites such as BitTorrent. But it wasn’t the only one. Several ISPs were also doing the same. The FCC has set its eyes on Comcast for such an act. Although some ISPs may argue that they are protecting intellectual rights, yet the big issue is neutrality in […]

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It’s a Digital Kids’ World

January 18th, 2008 No Comments

A decade or two ago, kids could only play the simplest home computer from Nintendo and they would still have time to play outside their homes and chase each other down their front yards.
As technology takes center stage in the lives of children, the only muscles they flex may be the fingers they use […]

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Medical Web 2.0 on the Go

January 17th, 2008 No Comments

VBP, acronym for Video, Blogs and Podcasting, are important part of Web 2.0. and they are on a rampage worldwide in the Internet. Web 2.0 is more than just a trend or a fad. Rather, its usage is spreading to different professions and sectors that use the Internet. 
Take the example of doctors and medical practitioners—they […]

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Never Too Young

January 16th, 2008 No Comments

Web 2.0 and Youth with Cancer
There’s something for everyone in the webosphere of Web 2.0. Online social networking has done a great job in connecting people with the same interests and the same struggles so that they could have a sense of belonging and camaraderie in the Web.
 Cancer strikes anyone regardless of age. Even […]

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Copyrights, Copycats, and Web 2.0

January 15th, 2008 No Comments

One of the recurring issues besetting Web 2.0 is the piracy of ideas and content. This is not about fake DVDs being sold on the streets of developing countries, but it is as much a reality in the Web as much as in different countries. 
Intellectual property rights is a big issue that users of Web […]

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IM Integration: Google Talk and Windows Live Messenger

January 13th, 2008 No Comments

It’s quite annoying sometimes to keep a number of Instant Messenger accounts because of the number of account names and passwords that have to be memorized. Good thing if one’s preferred username is available in all the IM protocols available. But this hardly ever happens. The alternative is for you to choose an out of […]

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Reinventing Old Media

January 12th, 2008 No Comments

Mass communication subjects in universities and even in postgraduate programs tend to focus on the old media—print, television, film, and music. But it’s a postmodern world and the nature of mass communication has been altered irrevocably with the advent of the Internet and its myriad features. Old media definitely has place in the world of […]

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