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 [...]

Digg Does Data Portability

Social news site Digg announced today that it has added semantic markup to fields throughout its site as well as adding support for a handful of key microformats. By adding RDFa and DublinCore markup to news item pages, Digg will now make its content far more searchable by semantically aware search engines.Combined with microformats that [...]

Identity theft on Facebook: Rogue FB App, Back Once More

In January, everything went a little crazy because of a Facebook application that (if you believed the hype) force installed Zango, hijacked your PC, set fire to your house, killed your pets…..well, you get the idea. In actual fact, the truth of the matter was a little more convoluted. All I could see was that [...]

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

The massive list of all Web 2.0 sites - who says they are dead?

Yahoo rewiring itself from the inside out: Sticky, Viral, User-friendly

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo here Thursday, Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh revealed how the company is transforming itself into an open and social platform from the ground up. It is opening its Web platform to developers and moving closer to a Facebook-style social networking concept. Ari Balogh also said that while Yahoo already has open APIs for some services, it will expand the open API concept to other areas and make it more consistent for developers, while boosting the ’social’ aspect of its services for its members.

Do you twit(ter)? Hell No!

It’s hard to explain why Twitter is so popular.

StumbleUpon: Red Letter day

I have been one of the early users of StumbleUpon, and I have seen the ups and downs of it. It is really heartening to read this:
“Sometime today, StumbleUpon will register its five millionth user. (At the time of this writing, it is at 4,994,826 registered users). That number is kind of meaningless because it [...]

Twitter Scapegoat?

Blaine Cook, lead architect at red-hot, sometimes-down Twitter, has left the company. Blaine describes his departure at an “amicable” one.
I left Twitter just over two weeks ago. It’s an amicable change; Twitter’s architecture is at a good point for them to pursue stability and growth, and I’m looking forward to a new challenge after nearly [...]

iGoogle transmogrifies into a Social Network

Google has long used its personalized homepage, iGoogle, as a launching point for its foray into social-networking applications. Any developer who builds an OpenSocial app, for instance, can make it work as a widget (er, gadget) on iGoogle. So far, it’s been more of a personal home page. But now iGoogle is taking another step towards becoming a full-fledged social network in its own right.