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And how cool is it that Penguin has a Flickr account?) (Via The Book Design Review.

john gruber findet es toll, das penguin flickr / web 2.0 nutzt.

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How Techies Can Improve Democracy and Governance

Obama Wahl, Politik, und die Relevanz von Web 2.0 zeugs.

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Das Web ist für die Digital Natives auch ein Platz des Sehens und Gesehenwerdens: Community-Seiten wie Facebook oder MySpace erfüllen Funktionen, die früher Jugendtreffs oder der öffentliche Dorfplatz der Töffligeneration innehatten. Das ist einer der Gründe, warum Digital Natives so verblüffend viele persönliche Details von sich im Web preisgeben. Wer Leute kennen lernen will, muss von sich etwas erzählen, sich ein wenig öffnen. Diese Erfahrung wird ins Web transferiert, verändert hat sich nur das Medium.

dieses zitat zeigt, inwiefern das web (myspace, facebook, etc) die soziale funktion von realwelt-treffpunkten (kaffeehäuser, jugendtreffs, etc) übernimmt.

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"Genau wie Kennedy im Jahr 1960 das Fernsehen zu seinem Vorteil einzusetzen wusste um seinen Wahlkampf gegen Nixon zu gewinnen, hat Barack Obama diese Wahlen dank seines Wissens über die Funktionsweise des Internets und anderer neuen Medien gewonnen."

Relevanz der neuen Medien, für Politik

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The Guardian has an interesting story on Vint Cerf, the 'father of the internet,' in which he says there's no silver bullet for scammers, spammers and criminals running zombie networks and porn-to-porn file swapping because 'the internet was designed that way.' Cerf adds, 'Like every medium, the internet can be abused. When we think about it, we can commit fraud locally and internationally using the telephone system and postal service.

spam, das Internet war so designed, dass spam möglich ist. es lässt sich nicht einfach so beheben.

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Most Americans feel that companies should have a presence on social media sites, and many feel that they should actively interact with customers through those sites. Those are just some of the findings of the 2008 Cone Business in Social Media Study, which said that 93 percent of Americans expect to see companies online where the users are—on social networking and other media sites.

IMPORTANT! 93% der amerikaner meinen, dass es wichtig ist, dass unternehmen auch im social web präsent sind

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What it does do is sound a ringing endorsement of the basic principle that UGC sites can, in fact, count as "service providers" under the DMCA. While there's still plenty to argue about in every particular case, that general reassurance will be comforting to everyone in the Web 2.0 world.

Veoh.com and thus others can be considered dmca safe harbours.

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The command interface is conceptually similar to desktop launcher tools like Enso, Quicksilver, and GNOME-Do. Unlike those tools, it places a strong emphasis on web content manipulation and web services. In many ways, it's like an interactive mash-up system. Ubiquity can respond to user instructions in several different ways. It can directly alter the contents of a web page, it can manipulate the browser interface, it can load a page in a new tab, and it can display output in a notification pop-up.

Ubiquity, a new Firefox extension from Mozilla Labs.

First the new Javascript Engine, which surpasses Squirrelfish by large amounts, now this. As much as I love Safari, if Firefox continues to add exciting features at such a strong pace, I seriously have to consider switching back to the beloved fox.

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"One of the things that's happening in cloud computing and Web 2.0 is centralization," he said. "We need to think about what will make this web platform of the future open."

Tim O'Reilly on the future of the web.

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I heard this stat last night: “6 of the top 10 sites are social apps” so I decided to check out out.  According to Alexa, this is correct:

Sehr interessant, um die Wichtigkeit sozialer Komponenten zu untermauern.

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The market for Web development technologies appears ripe for consolidation. And yet, the barriers to entry are so low -- many of the tools are free -- that the market forces that might ordinarily eliminate competitors don't seem to apply here.

So true. One of the complexities I face from project to project is wondering which of the gazillion tools might be the right one for this job. And after one finished learning a specific toolkit, another one comes around the corner, that offers far more, better or other things - so the learning process starts again.

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360desktop transforms your desktop into a panoramic workspace - with more space for everything.

Watch the Video. What a piece of junk. Whoever (angel?) funded this has obviously no idea of current technological advancements and usability.

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Supporting IE 6 means slower progress, less progress, and, in some places, no progress.

37Signals regarding their dropping IE6 support

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we’re on the brink of a new era. Everybody is used to creating their own computing for now. It won’t be long until we all switch to cheaper computing and leave our own servers to rust. Bad times are coming for sysadmins and people occupied with server- and hosting-infrastructures. Unless of course you have the ambition to go work for one of the utility-providers, the world will primarily be needing appliance-builders. Design will become way more important as well.

Interesting remark regarding the future of computing. Never thought about it that way.

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I don’t want browser-side storage. That means turning the browser into a fat stateful client, and down that path lies madness – and the negation of what brought the browser into being in the first place.

Tao-of-Mac on browser-side storage.

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and I have to wonder — with things like AIR starting to be accepted by developers, do we still need the browser at all?

I'd say yes. I'd hardly think that it's feasible to replace the already fragmented world of browsers by a even more fragmented world of 1000s of AIR applications, serving tons of different needs.