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Google Wants to Be Your Friend — the Debut of Google’s “Friend Connect”

News.com is reporting that Google has just revealed a preview of its new “Friend Connect,” a user-friendly method of adding social features to web sites without needing extensive programming knowledge. Friend Connect is obviously an attempt to jump on the social networking Web 2.0 [...]

Rumors of a Web 2.0 Bubble

With the US economy on shaky ground, interest rates being slashed, and the real estate market in a serious slump, online companies have begun to wonder if there is a web 2.0 bubble burst just around the corner. Everyone remembers the .com crash and burn of 2001, when many startups went under, and [...]

Flickr Adds Video - Should YouTube be Worried?

Flickr, the popular photo sharing web site now owned by Yahoo, has announced plans to add streaming video to its repertoire. Initially, the video offerings will be limited to only 90 second clips, with a maximum file size of 150 MB. According to News.com, Yahoo plans to incorporate streaming video [...]

Yahoo Shine: Useful Women’s Web Site, or Cynical Advertising Ploy?

In what could be described as a marketing ploy to advertise to the adult female demographic, Yahoo has launched Shine, a new web site which Yahoo claims will reach approximately 40 million women, aged 25 to 54. Shine is being touted as a “lifestyles destination” for women, and will [...]

What is Bebo? And Why is AOL Buying it for $850 Million?

What is Bebo? That’s the question many people are asking today. Businessweek.com is reporting that AOL has pulled out it’s sizable checkbook to purchase the pre-teen social networking website known as Bebo. Buying Bebo gives AOL access to their growing teen and preteen audience, as well [...]