Five open source Web 2.0 applications
Blogs, wikis, social networks, social news aggregator. Although there's certainly been a lot of hype around these things, when applied in the right circumstances they can serve a utility for many people and businesses.
Q&A: Kristofer Arwin of review site TestFreaks
TestFreaks, launched at the end of last year, is a consumer review site that aggregates technical information and opinions about a range of products.
It was founded by Kristofer Arwin, Magnus Wiberg and Martin Alexanderson, all of whom previously founded PriceRunner back in 1999.
We talked to Kristofer about his plans for the TestFreaks, and how he aims to make it into the world's biggest product review site...
Buzz up!
Yahoo just made Yahoo Buzz open to all publishers and if you run a blog or publish content online, you might want to consider adding Yahoo Buzz to your website.
Site review: Like.com
Like.com launched back in November 2006, with a shopping comparison site that enabled users to search for clothing and other fashion items by using both text and images as queries.
Since then, it has been redesigned completely, so we've taken a look to see how it has developed...
Delicious launches revamped website
Online bookmarking service Delicious has relaunched with an improved version of its site, with improvements including an enhanced search facility.
Q&A: Thomas Busch of Careerjet
Careerjet is a job search engine that began as a bet by its founders, Thomas Busch and Jean-Benoit Andrieu.
It appears they have won - it now aggregates content from over 59,000 sites daily, and currently displays upwards of 21m vacancies.
We talked to Busch about the site's development and the semantic technology behind its search functions.
The AP tussles with the blogosphere
Where does copyright end and fair use begin? In the age of the blogosphere, this question is proving to be a difficult and painful one for copyright holders and bloggers to come to an agreement on.
Site review: The Filter
The Filter, Peter Gabriel's new online music, movies and video recommendation service launched this week.
As with Last.fm, it aims to provide users with recommendations based on their preferences and listening habits, but is it as good?
Site review: BookRabbit - Last.fm for readers?
BookRabbit, launched last week, is a new website which aims to do for books what Last.fm has done for music on the web.
Data portability - a red herring?
If you are to believe data portability proponents, one of the biggest challenges facing the internet today is the difficulty users have in sharing their data across multiple services.
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Web 2.0
Graham Charlton
Strategy & Planning
