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 [...]

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 [...]

FLurry of Data Interoperability announcements…

TechCrunch has an interesting post that Google is going to launch a product called “Friend Connect” on Monday. MySpace launched Data Availability on Thursday, and yesterday Facebook Connect.
Why this flurry of activity in opening up APIs for 3rd party apps? All these initiatives will allow securely sending personal profile data, including friend lists, presence/status information, [...]

AOL To Unveil Open Voice APIs

AOL plans to roll out open voice APIs today for developers and device makers to integrate the company’s AIM Call Out service into the hardware and software used to make phone calls over the Internet

McDonald’s Advertises Dollar Menu On MySpace TV Fashion Site

Advertising Age (4/7, Brodesser-Akner) reported, “The words ‘double cheeseburger’ and ‘haute couture’ don’t often get uttered in the same breath, but high fashion and high cholesterol are making for interesting bedfellows online, thanks to McDonald’s and MySpace TV.” The piece continued, “When MySpace TV started airing the celebrity fashion show ‘Who What Wear’ early in [...]

AOL Ad Project, ‘Platform A,’ Plots Plan B

Digital Effort Aiming To Unite Multiple Fronts Faces Various Obstacles
By EMILY STEEL
March 26, 2008; Page B6
Over the past two years, Lynda Clarizio has helped build Advertising.com, AOL’s ad network, into one of the hottest properties in online advertising. Her reward: She gets to try to clean up one of the Internet company’s messiest divisions.

Time Warner’s [...]