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“Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as web applications which are pieced together.”
- Eric Schmidt
In the wake of Google’s AppEngine announcement, I want to remind you of this video I’ve posted before: Eric Schmidt talking about Google’s vision for the Web 3.0 computing era.

To me, AppEngine seems like the most logical evolution of Google Gadgets! [...]

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Looks like some users, including me, got a Google Docs upgrade today.
The look/feel is much more like a desktop app, which makes sense.
Check out this screenshot (click to make bigger)!

By the way, I’ll also note that Google Docs was a hot topic of conversation at dinner last night. My dad — a forward trending businessman [...]

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Google announced its Social Graph API late last week.
To many of us, Google’s new API may not seem that important. Watch the video at the end of this post to hear more about what the API does from a practical perspective. But, for those companies engaged in semantic (data) parsing of the web, I’d like [...]

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Google is too powerful and Wikipedia should save itself (and the world) by introducing fully open API.
Introduction
For much of the past month, the tech press has been consumed by two things: the introduction of the Google Knol and the release of Wikia Search (see Allen Stern’s excellent coverage here). If there’s one thing that’s clear [...]

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Yet another post inspired by a most excellent conversation going on within the nextNY community. The top half is important back story and theory, while the second half is the punch-line to validate the title of this post.
In a recent discussion on the nextNY listserv, Phil Dupré asked a “philosophical question:”
What is the distinct value [...]

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I was under the impression that Orkut, the Google-owned and popular-only-in-Brazil online social network, was still invite only.
At least I thought that until tonight. Logged into Google/Gmail, I went into the “more” menu at the top of my screen, looking for Google Blog Search. However, I saw, for the first time, Orkut featured in the [...]

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No commentary necessary:

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As a lover of an open future for the web, I’d like to make a deal with Facebook: go focus on your super sophisticated ad platform, and give us your social graph.
First background: I’ve written a few times in the past on how I feel about The Facebook Platform and the problems I see with [...]

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Kyle alerted me to this this morning, ironically as I was working on Google Doc.
Google Docs has gotten a make-over:

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