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At Web 2.0 Expo, even the wheelchairs are sponsored
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Wed, 23 Apr. 2008
Get well soon, Sam.(Credit: Rafe Needleman / CNET) Sam Lawrence, the CMO of Jive Software, broke his foot a week ago. He wasn't looking forward to the hassle of wheeling around Web 2.0 Expo in readmore
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Live Mesh consumer app is a work in progress
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Wed, 23 Apr. 2008
Microsoft is announcing Live Mesh today in conjunction with the readmore
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Live Mesh consumer app is a work in progress
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Wed, 23 Apr. 2008
Microsoft is announcing Live Mesh today in conjunction with the readmore
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Quickie: Trackthis tracks packages on Twitter
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Tue, 22 Apr. 2008
While I try to get Web 2.0 Expo darling du jour Fireball working (still no luck), I thought it'd be worth covering another location service for Twitter: Trackthis. You tell it a package tracking number from FedEx, UPS, USPS, or DHL, and it will Twitter you back whenever there's an update from the s readmore
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Cool: Oosah lets you drag pictures between photo, social sites
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Tue, 22 Apr. 2008
Oosah is a solid Flash-based media manager that lets you create little slide shows and share pictures with your friends. It competes with some pretty good applications, such as Fl readmore
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Yet another Twhirl update coming tomorrow
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Tue, 22 Apr. 2008
Shortly after Loic Le Meur's Seesmic acquired the excellent readmore
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And the Webware 100 Winners are...
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Mon, 21 Apr. 2008
I'm happy to announce the winners of the 2008 Webware 100. These are the 100 top Web apps, 10 each in 10 categories, according to Webware users and the fans of the products that were finalists in the awards. You can see all the win readmore
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Web 2.0 Expo: What to watch for
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Mon, 21 Apr. 2008
On Tuesday, the Web 2.0 Expo invades San Francisco. The largest Web 2.0 conference there is--the organizers are expecting 7,000+ attendees--will inhabit the Moscone exhibit hall thr readmore
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OpenID getting more usable, a tiny bit at a time
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Mon, 21 Apr. 2008
Webware has been covering the Web authentication standard OpenID since readmore
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AT&T launches its own browser, Pogo. Surprise: It doesn't suck.
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Fri, 18 Apr. 2008
The obvious first question one asks the AT&T execs when beginning a discussion of Pogo, their new Web browser, is "What is AT&T doing getting into the browser market?" The answer you g readmore
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Socialtext enterprise wiki getting social network features
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Thu, 17 Apr. 2008
If you love a good theory -- of psychology, physics, economics, you name it -- go work at SocialText. These guys live in their heads. That became apparent when I talked to founder Ross Mayfield and newish CE readmore
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Your preferences are portable (sort of) with Matchmine
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Thu, 17 Apr. 2008
We last covered Matchmine in September 2007, noting that the product, a preferences and recommendation engi readmore
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Intuit getting into the hosted app business
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Wed, 16 Apr. 2008
Intuit is announcing today its entry into the growing app platform market. Like Salesforce has done, Intuit's new readmore
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Tungle launches meeting time broker
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Wed, 16 Apr. 2008
Tungle, launching today, may be the meeting coordination utility to beat. Like TimeBridge, Jiffle, and readmore
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ReadBurner: TechMeme for Google Reader
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Wed, 16 Apr. 2008
Sorry about that headline. It just seems that every medium is getting its own "what's hot" feed these days. Even Twitterheads are getting in the act, with the new Twitlinks ( readmore
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Syncplicity launches sync tool with backup, sharing, Google Docs integration
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Tue, 15 Apr. 2008
Today Syncplicity is launching its PC sync tool. Like the old-school FolderShare and the newer SugarSync ( readmore
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PollDaddy launches Twitter Polls
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Mon, 14 Apr. 2008
Our favorite polling service, PollDaddy, just launched Twitter Polls. It's a a quick way to create a poll, which will them embed a link to itself in a Twitter post that goes out under your name. readmore
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FriendFeed gets its AIR app, Alert Thingy
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Sun, 13 Apr. 2008
AlertThingy puts FriendFeed on your desktop, via AIR. AlertThingy, the first (I believe) AIR app for FriendFeed, is now out. If you're a FriendFeed user just readmore
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Beyond Microsoft's new traffic-avoidance feature
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Thu, 10 Apr. 2008
Today Microsoft announced a new feature on its Live Search Maps service: Clearflow, an option that will alter driving directions based on traffic, not just on the usually metered major freeways, but on adjoini readmore
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The 10 things you may complain about (and five you may not)
Rafe Needleman via Webware.com on Thu, 10 Apr. 2008
In baseball, everyone loves to complain about the Yankees. Unless they're from New York. Here in San Francisco, everyone complains about the cost of living and the bad schools. These are safe complaints, and it's fun to preach to the choir. The blogosphere also has readmore
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