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It’s no secret that Facebook, which started as a networking playground
for college kids, is graying, and that the percentage of active members
who are over 25 years old and out of school has risen to some 40
percent of the overall population of about 45 million. The influx raises
questions. Will the loss of the campus sensibility and the youthful
gestalt dilute the Facebook experience?
Nevertheless, the search giant Google, whose Google News is among the
largest news aggregators, announced a business based on those who
chatter about the news. It is asking the people or companies mentioned
in news articles to comment on those reports.
Wikipedia’s notion of the past has enlarged to include things that
haven’t even stopped happening yet. Increasingly, it has become a go-
to source not just for reference material but for real-time breaking news
— to the point where, following the mass murder at Virginia Tech, one
newspaper in Virginia praised Wikipedia as a crucial source of detailed
information.
Over 200 Web 2.0 Sites in 41 Categories
Rated, Ranked and Awarded
Our team reviewed hundreds of sites in the Web 2.0 sphere to uncover
the best in each of 41 categories. From there, we assembled a team of
25 of the most knowledgeable, well-respected experts in the field to
vote on the winners.
EveryScape is the only place you can discover your everyday world, your
way. Today, you can check out Union Square, San Francisco as the first
city to be scaped. You can check out restaurants, hotels, go shopping,
drive by homes. You can see what other people are saying and share
your comments as you stroll down the street. Click on the link to the
right to vote for the next CityScape.
Spock, the secretive people search engine getting ready to launch in two months, showed another demo to VentureBeat last week.
A blog from the Web 2.0 expo, going on this week.
Interview with Tim O'Reilly on the eve of the Web 2.0 Expo.