Biggest Deployment of Gmail, Outlook/Exchange loses out

NSW schools has opted for Gmail for students rather than Outlook. Aside from a massive cost saving this will also allow easy email access outside of schools plus access to Gmail’s great spam filter system and other applications.
Google partner SMS Management and Technology has emerged as the leading bidder to supply the NSW Department of [...]

Eclipse readies Ganymede release

OSGi, SOA, JavaScript improvements top list of enhancements in 23 projects
The Eclipse Foundation next week is set to offer its annual simultaneous release of open-source project updates, this time called the Ganymede Release and featuring improvements in the core OSGI-based component model and SOA tools.
All told, 23 projects are being upgraded in the Ganymede [...]

Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List - Everything 2.0 - Part 3

Read the Part 1 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List - Everything 2.0 - Part 1
Read the Part 2 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List - Everything 2.0 - Part 2
RSS 2.0

Alesti - Feed reader. www.alesti.org/
Almondrocks - Share feeds. www.almondrocks.com/
Beanrocket - News reader. www.beanrocket.com/
Blogbridge - Feed reader. www.blogbridge.com/
Blogexpress - [...]

Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List - Everything 2.0 - Part 2

Read the Part 1 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List - Everything 2.0 - Part 1
Read the Part 3 of this list here: Web 2.0’s Top 1,000 List - Everything 2.0 - Part 3
FUN 2.0

Beggr - Give me your money. www.beggr.com/
Comedy Search Engine - Thousands of comedy links. www.comedysearchengine.com/
Sign Generators (Flash). www.signgenerator.net/
Web2.0validator [...]

Firefox 3 Download Day!

Today’s the day, people: Firefox 3 comes out, and the Mozilla Foundation seeks to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the most downloads of a software release in one day. Time to strike a blow for all that’s good and free!

Also you may want to check out this site at Lifehacker: Power User’s [...]

Technorati Media - Technorati’s Blog Ad Network

A very interesting post on TechCrunch announcing the launch of Technorati’s Ad network, to be called Technorati Media. The site, when launched and live, will be at http://www.technoratimedia.com/
Quoting from the post:
“…The company has been testing the new sales product with a number of partners, including BlogTalkRadio, BlogCritics, BlogCatalog, BlogTV, Technabob, GPSMagazine, GeekAlerts and NerdApproved. CEO [...]

New MP3 Revolutionizes Way You Listen to Music

Korean computer engineers are introducing a new digital music format that has a six-channel audio equalizer and separate controls on the sound volume for each musical instrument, such as guitar, drum, base and voice. The new format, which has a file extension format of MT9 and a commercial title of “Music 2.0″, is poised to replace the popular MP3 file format as the de-facto standard of the digital music source, its inventors say.

Video and Pictures of OLPC XO Laptop 2.0 look awesome!

OLPC founder Nicholas Nick Negroponte today announced the second generation of the OLPC XO laptop, which will be called the XO-2. The video and images look awesome!

LinkedIn, Let’s open up!

The latest Nielsen data has some interesting insights on social media traffic. The most noticeable of these is that LinkedIn has grown 361% YoY.

The major social media sites are all opening up their platforms to 3rd party Application devs. When would LinkedIn open up?
“The numbers also reveal that business social network LinkedIn, which may or [...]

AOL completes acquisition of Bebo

AOL announced yesterday, that it has completed its acquisition of Bebo, a global social media network that will form the centerpiece of AOL’s newly created People Networks business unit. Bebo’s CEO Joanna Shields will serve as Executive Vice President of AOL and President of People Networks, which combines Bebo, AIM, ICQ and AOL’s other community [...]