Hi, everyone. The lack of updates on the site lately has been apparent to anyone who’s followed it from the beginning. There are several reasons for it. First, I’ve devoted most of my energy to writing on Mashable. This blog,...
Topics: News

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Hey, folks. I know my writing here has been a bit sporadic lately, but it’s mostly because I’ve been writing posts like these for Mashable. It’s so long that one might convert it to PDF and proclaim it an e-book *cough* Seth Godin...
Topics: Web, Web 2.0

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I’m checking out Time’s list of 50 best websites of 2008 and I don’t get it. Sure, these are all nice sites, but I fail to find any criteria upon which this list is based. A quick skim through the list reveals very different types of...
Topics: Web

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If the standard way of watching Google Maps is boring you to death, a game in which you can drive several different vehicles all around the map might be a welcome refreshment. The game, developed by Geoquake, is based on Google Maps API for Flash, which..
Topics: News, Web

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Usually, mashups and innovative, alternative GUIs for popular websites are slow and mostly unusable, but Tag Galaxy breaks that habit with being really functional, as well as being really, really cool. Type in a tag - any word, really - into Tag Galaxy,..
Topics: News, Web, Web 2.0

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