Category Archives: Web 2.0

Xing Buys cember.net

The social networking site Xing bought the Turkish professional networking site cember.net for a reported $6.4 million. cember.net is the market leader in professional networking in Turkey.
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BBC’s Social Media Experiment in Turkey

I just came across an interesting news in Press Gazette. According to the article, BBC is starting a social media experiment in Turkey to cover the July 2007 general elections.
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Vanderbilt in Web 2.0 Style

I have just noticed that Vanderbilt has a website for the student community: InsideVandy. The tagline says it is Vanderbilt University’s online student community. It is a site with content created by the students for the students. I think this…

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Gmail Offers Google Spreadsheets for XLS Attachments

According to Google Blogoscoped Gmail just started offering to open XLS attachments in Google Spreadsheets. This is very convenient, indeed.

However, what is more interesting here is what the Blogoscoped points at: Google’s strength at locking in the users. It is obvious when you…

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Web Science as a Field of Study

As Computer Science is slowly being accepted as real science, New York Times reports that The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton in Britain are planning to announce a joint research program in Web science. The program will be…

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MSNTube, I Mean Soapbox

As YouTube is trying to convert gazillion visitors into some cold cash, Microsoft announced today that they are launching their MSN Video service Soapbox as an invitation-only beta service.

The announcement says that powerful Web 2.0 technologies are used to provide a great experience for…

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