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Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0'

Stack Overflow – Where Experts Exchange Information

May 17th, 2009 No Comments

Last year a new Q&A site for developers called Stack Overflow was opened to the public. We covered the site a bit on an episode of the AGP a few months back, but I just realized the other day that I hadn’t posted about it here.
The site is focused on the interaction between software [...]

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Nerd Dinners — Geekery and Good Eats

March 27th, 2009 1 Comment

Leave it to the big brains of Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman to come up with this simple yet super cool concept. Nerd Dinners — a way (by use of web technology) for a bunch of introverts to meet up with each other and enjoy a meal, and the kind of conversation that drives [...]

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Goodbye Grand Central, Hello Google Voice!

March 12th, 2009 1 Comment

Google today announced a new service to (some of) it’s customers called Google Voice. The service works very similarly to Grand Central (which the big G acquired back in 2007).
The system allows you to create a single phone number, to which you can aggregate other numbers to have a unified system for voice and [...]

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Multiple RSS Feeds with DualFeeds

January 19th, 2009 No Comments

I’m a huge fan of bloggers (and podcasters and well… everyone else for that matter) using full feeds for subscribers to their sites.  I’ve got no time for people who demand that I hit their website to be able to read the content.  If you want to monetize the feed that’s fine, but let me [...]

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Twitter Acquires Sandy and Stikkit

December 15th, 2008 No Comments

Here’s a clip of a post I did over on the AGP Blog about the acquisition of Sandy & Stikkit by Twitter. It’s going to be very interesting to see what Twitter decides to do with the newly acquired technology, particularly in the wake of reduced services in nearl every country outside the US (read: [...]

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