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Craigslist — Classifieds big time

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

 

Craigslist.org  is our Ace of clubs. Why? Because it’s huge: traffic-wise it is number 40 in the world and #7 in terms of English language page views. It is 100% User Generated Content, serving even the tiniest market niche. It offers sites in […]

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Slideshare — Sharing Knowledge

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Nowadays you can share nearly everything in the web2.0. It started with sharing friends via friendster.com, followed by pictures via Flickr, videos via YouTube and lots of useful and senseless stuff. With Slidshare.com one can share - hence the name - presentation slides about all kinds of issues, slides with any context […]

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Plazes — Places for your Life

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Plazes allows you to show your friends (and your fans) where you are physically located and what you are doing currently. The original version did this via some technologies which ran as a small application on your desktop (the “Plazer”) and used your network ID to work out where you were located.
Founded in 2005 […]

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Wikipedia — The Ultimate Knowledge Base

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Who doesn’t know it, who havn’t heard of it, who doesn’t use it? Wikipedia is the world greatest and comprehensive of all encyclopaedias. There has never been a more extensive conglomeration of knowledge and wisdom in the humanity than that. But how could such a platform emerge in only six years?
Wikipedia is an online-community […]

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Dash — Collective Navigation

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Dash.net is a young CES-Award winning company based in California offering an innovative navigation product. So what has navigation to do with Web2.0?
The clue is the integrated feedback channel where specific driver information is used to enhance the accuracy of traffic information for other Dash users. The device sends continuously GPS based position information anonymously […]

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