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A bumper crop of new mashup platforms: While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...; Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Pageflakes adds social networking: Business2 is reporting on the latest upgrade to Pageflakes to go live later today, which will see the personalized start-page service take its first steps towards evolving into a social network based on shared interests.For the first time, members will be able to establish a public profile and there will...; Tags: Widgets, Social Networks; Blog posts 2007-06-28
One-stop-shop for Election 08 videos: Policlicks and Magnify.net have partnered to create a one-stop-shop for viewing online video associated with the US presidential election -- both the official efforts from campaign teams, as well as the plethora of User-Generated Content from supporters and critics alike.Utilizing the technology of Magnify, the Election 08 site "will gather,...; Tags: Politics 2.0, Video Sharing, Widgets; Blog posts 2007-05-30
More thoughts on Facebook's new platform: Earlier this week I reported on Facebook's plans to further open up and to turn the social network into a platform. Third parties would be able to partner with Facebook, who in return would provide the necessary hooks for those companies to port their applications, and set-up-shop inside of the...; Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Social Networks, Widgets; Blog posts 2007-05-25
Mashups: The next major new software development model?: At last weeks Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement...; Tags: Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, Badges, Ajax, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Social Software, Tolerance Continuum, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis; Blog posts 2007-05-14

Yahoo to rebrand MyBlogLog, and then what?: Yahoo is to make a number of changes to MyBlogLog, the stats service and distributed social network for blogs that it acquired at the beginning of the year. Speaking at Chicagos SOBcon at the weekend, recently appointed MyBlogLog community manager, Robyn Tippins, talked about Yahoos forthcoming plans for the service,...; Tags: Social Networks, Widgets; Blog posts 2007-05-14
Widgets to become more interactive: Distributing content via widgets has been a key element of the growing social web. Fueled by the explosion of blogs, social networking profiles, and start pages -- its now common practice for companies to take a more de-centralized approach to their content, so that their users can also become distributors....; Tags: Widgets; Blog posts 2007-05-09
MySpace buys Photobucket: First reported by Valleywag, and then confirmed by TechCrunch, MySpace has acquired the popular photosharing site, Photobucket. Readers of this blog will know that the two companies have had an on/off relationship, with Photobucket owing much of its success to News Corp.s social networking site, before they were blocked for...; Tags: Widgets, Social Networks, MySpace; Blog posts 2007-05-07
SplashCast aims to take podcasting beyond iTunes: SplashCast has added a new use for its mixed media player: podcast syndication. MyPodcastNetwork enables the SplashCast player to support video or audio enclosures in any RSS feed so that users can create their own embeddable podcast channel -- which could be a single show, or a play-list of their...; Tags: Widgets, Video Sharing; Blog posts 2007-04-30
A tale of two Web 2.0 conferences and mashups: Ive just come off a whirlwind conference tour that started in San Francisco last week with Web 2.0 Expo and ended with the Web 2.0 Kongress yesterday in Frankfurt. I was fortunate enough to be able to speak at both conferences and it was fascinating to see the differences...; Tags: ATOM, Badges, Convergence, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Wikis, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Right To Remix, RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis, WS-*; Blog posts 2007-04-27
MySpace and Photobucket are friends again: MySpace and Photobucket have called a truce, and Photobucket videos are no longer being blocked on the New Corp-owned social networking site. Whilst there was speculation that the reason for the original blockage was that News Corp. was nervous of a possible competitor acquiring Photobucket, the real reason was that...; Tags: Widgets, MySpace; Blog posts 2007-04-24
YouTube spotlights presidential candidates; CBS excludes YouTube/MySpace from content deals; Can YouTube Hear Me? (update); and more: The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…YouTube invites presidential candidates into the spotlight. YouTube is putting each of the US presidential hopefuls into the Spotlight; a weekly event on the video sharing site where each candidate...; Tags: YouTube, Widgets, Video Sharing, Social Networks, Politics 2.0, MySpace, Joost, Friendster; Blog posts 2007-04-13
Interview: SplashCast's Marshall Kirkpatrick: SplashCast is a service that lets users create their own streaming media channels that can combine various media including video, audio, photos, and text. The result is then packaged into SplashCasts flash-based media player so that it can be embedded on any web site, blog, or social network page. When...; Tags: Video Sharing, Widgets; Blog posts 2007-04-10
Fox News on Second Life; YouTube presidential campaign; Explode adds new features; and more: The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…Fox News does a hit job on Second Life and John Edwards unofficial virtual campaign. Kirsten Powers in her first video blog for the news channel reports on Second Life,...; Tags: Politics 2.0, Second Life, The Social Web weekly, Video Sharing, Widgets, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-03-02
Beware the MySpace eco-system: Too many companies in the social web space have an unhealthy reliance on MySpace. The social networking site has become so popular, that companies who wigitize their service -- so that it can be embedded on MySpace user-profiles -- hope to see a significant return, both in terms of traffic...; Tags: MySpace, Video Sharing, Widgets; Blog posts 2007-02-28
Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 2: Mass customization, mashups, and recombinant Web apps: In my last post, I took a look at the recent proliferation of Web widgets, which are modular content and services that are making it easier for anyone to help themselves to the vast pool of high value functionality and information that resides on the Web today. Companies are...; Tags: Architecture of Participation, ATOM, Badges, Business Models, Design Patterns, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise Web 2.0, Gadgets, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, REST, Right To Remix, RSS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, SOAP, The Long Tail, Two-Way Web, Web 2.0, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets; Blog posts 2007-02-25
Netvibes to make widgets universal; Digg to support OpenID; YouTube outsources filtering; MyBlogLog bans user: The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week...Digg to support OpenID. Earlier in the week, speaking at the Future of Web Apps FOMA conference in the UK, Diggs Kevin Rose announced that the site will soon support...; Tags: YouTube, MySpace, Widgets, Digg, The Social Web weekly; Blog posts 2007-02-23
LinkedInABox: a LinkedIn widget: LinkedInABox is a flash widget designed to be embedded on blogs and social networking profiles, that displays information pulled from a users LinkedIn account.To begin creating your own version of the widget you first enter your LinkedIn log-in details into the LinkedInABox site though they arent stored, and from there...; Tags: Social Networks, Widgets, LinkedIn; Blog posts 2007-02-23
Explode, a meta-social network: Explode, a new service from Curverider the British startup behind Elgg, is described as "a simple way to connect to all your friends regardless of what [social] network they belong to". Its essentially a meta-social network, the result of which is a widget that displays a list of all of...; Tags: Social Networks, Widgets; Blog posts 2007-02-20
Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 1: Widgets, badges, and gadgets: One of the hallmarks of a good Web 2.0 site is one that hands over non-essential control to users, letting them contribute content, participate socially, and even fundamentally shape the site itself. The premise is that users will do a surprising amount of the hard work necessary to make...; Tags: Ajax, Badges, Business Models, Design Patterns, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Gadgets, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Network Effects, Open APIs, Right To Remix, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Widgets; Blog posts 2007-02-19