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Web 2.0: Reuters will launch financial Social Network

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Reuters is planning to launch this year a financial network for fund managers, traders and analysts similar to MySpace. The web site will be exclusive to Reuters’ subscriber base of about 70,000. “…People don’t want to have 100 friend requests from teenage girls in Florida if they are trading the…

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Video: Google’s Master Plan

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Here’s your daily dose of conspiracy theory. The Video Google’s Master Plan - recently made available on YouTube - is looking into the “underlying” plans that are driving Google’s business. The movie is greatly done and uses excellent visualization techniques. A high quality version together with additional information is available at…

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Video: This thing called the “Internet”

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A great 6 minutes TV documentary from 1993 about the thing called the “Internet”. We haven’t heard the sound of a connecting modem for a long time (3:00)…

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Video: 1h Blogumentary

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Have a look at this one hour documentary on blogs…

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Time: Visualize the Blogosphere

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Swedish company PrimeLabs is providing a new screen-saver called “Twingly” that visualizes worldwide RSS feeds on a globe in real time…

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Video: Web 2.0 explained

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Kansas State University Professor “Michael Wesch” has made the second draft of his video available online that provides a flyover from early HTML to Web 2.0 in less than 5 minutes. Great work…The video is also online at “mojiti.com” were you can write your comments directly into the video itself…

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Web: Why movie downloads are not getting off the ground

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Gadget web log “Gizmodo” has a great top 10 list why movie downloads still didn’t make it. They estimate that it will take a few more years until movie downloads from the Internet become as common as DVDs or rentals. Their list of reasons includes…

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USA: H. Clinton’s web site traffic peaking

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Interest in U.S. Democrats front runner Hillary Clinton seems to be on the rise - at least when you believe in web site statistics. Her web site was this week’s number two of Alexa’s “movers and shakers” with a rise of 40,000% in traffic…

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Data Visualization: Web Trend Map 2007

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Another trend map in the form of a tube map. Seemingly these “tube maps” are getting rather popular this year. This trend map from Information Architects Japan shows all the big players, the current Internet trends and how they’re connected…

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Video: Wardriving meets Mainstream

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What was once considered an underground way to get free bandwidth - driving around with a computer in a car and trying to find unprotected or otherwise “open” wireless Internet access points aka “war driving” - is now more and more being covered by mainstream media. This time it’s BBC 3 with their…

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