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| Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com: To briefly summarize: in Part 1 I introduced Yellowikis, a Wikipedia-like site for open business listings, and said it has the potential to shake up the Yellow Pages industry. In Part 2 I took a more critical look at Yellowikis and the business realities it faces. (via Cosmos)
Shore Communications Inc.: Commentary - Weblogs - Shore News Commentary: Yellowikis founder Paul Youlten used to work in business development at Reuters Business Information (now Factiva), so he is aware of the business information marketplace and eager to apply the lessons learned from other wiki efforts to collecting information about companies. While targeting the yellow pages industry first and foremost their home page sees their mission as being "Yellow Pages (http://www.yellowpages.com), Dun and Bradstreet (http://www.dnb.com/us/) and Hoovers rolled into one - but open, free to both companies and users, global, multilingual and a lot more ecologically friendly." When Paul's daughter had an entry into Wikipedia rejected because it was not considered encyclopedic by the peer reviewers the light bulb went off in Paul's head. (via Cosmos)
Platform Wars: I wrote a company registry module for Infoconomy back in 2000 (that site's running on Philip Greenspun's ACS). It was a good old-fashioned bit of relational modeling, handling international companies with HQs in different countries and multiple branches, categorization, partner and competitor relations etc. (via Cosmos)
RouXx.net: Découvert via eHub d’Emily Chang, Yellowikis est “le premier annuaire d’entreprises mondial, ouvert et gratuit”. L’objectif est simple, référencer toutes les entreprises à travers la planète pour créer une ressource incontournable, à l (via Cosmos)
[Supr.c.ilio.us: The Blog] Geek Entertainment TV: Geek Entertainment Television, a new vlog* from Irina and Eddie where they interview people “from inside the bubble.” Along the lines of supr.c.ilio.us (the co-authors of which were the first two to be interviewed), it’s not taking all the Web 2.0 hype seriously and encourages the same. That, and they’ll follow any lead.
[BorkWeb] Amazon Tags!: of tagging and the world will be a happier, easier to search place. I can only hope tags: web2, web 2.0... news in my book. I’m a follower of the Web 2.0 movement and have really been turned onto the idea... other web 2.0 apps”¦there are still many out there that express their opinions on tagging as “Tagging
[Techcrunch.com] TechCrunch: Gawker, a blog network similar to Weblogs, Inc., and Yahoo announced a syndication deal today that brings Gawker content to Yahoo News. Content from the largest Gawker blogs is already included - Wonkette, Gizmodo, Defamer, Lifehacker, and Gawker itself.
[Readwriteweb.com] Read/Write Web: Yesterday produced an example of what I consider a poor R/WW post: Gawker Strikes Deal With Yahoo.Admittedly it was a rushed post, because I had other things to do, but that's noexcuse for not doing more groundwork and analysis before I posted it. Bycontrast, later that day I saw an excellent post by Mike Arrington from TechCrunchon the same topic: Is the Gawker-Yahoo Deal Important?Mike's post pointed out something that I would have known had I done moregroundwork, that Yahoo is not actually linking through to Gawker sites.
[Web20.weblogsinc.com] The Web 2.0 Weblog - web20.weblogsinc.com: network features over 80 independent, unfiltered bloggers producing over 1,000 blog posts a week across 75 industry leading blogs that include Engadget, Autoblog, and TVSquad. We figured we would skim the cream and give you some of the top posts from a number of these sites—as determined by our bloggers—in one easy to read post each week.
[Jeremy.zawodny.com] Jeremy Zawodny's blog: Web2 Archives: I'll be up at Web 2.0 in San Francisco Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week. There's some really interesting stuff on the agenda and the lineup of speakers is mind blowing (good work, John).
[Radar.oreilly.com] O'Reilly Radar > Not 2.0?: (Of course, illustrating the complexity of the evolution of new business patterns, DoubleClick and its peers were one of the first signs of another aspect of Web 2.0, services delivered by cooperating web sites. After all, almost every ad banner served is a "mashup", with DoubleClick or equivalent site cooperating seamlessly with the target site to deliver content from yet another site.) EBay is a long tail company because it set up a system, again with customer self service and powerful algorithms, enabling a thriving marketplace among players who were formerly marginal in the high touch economic systems that eBay replaced.
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