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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

The constant parade of new verbs and nouns has been interesting: texting, “going viral,” mashups, memes, flashmobs, friending, unfriending, likes, retweets, crowdfunding, “add me,” rickrolling, circles, FollowFriday, hash tags, Pandora, Instagrams. Blogs — “web logs” as they were first called, began to appear.

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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

One popular widget was the Nintendo wii (see programmable web) mashup of available/in stock Wii’s and a Google map. In November 2000 they opened up the API and by 2006 had 5 billion API calls a month. 60,000 developers in 2005 creating apps using the APIs and forming an ecosystem of development.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It shows the power of mashup. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. I like the Pork and Bean video. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! All rights reserved.

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The FASTForward Blog " Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? : Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary

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December 2006. January 2008. December 2007. November 2007. October 2007. September 2007. August 2007. April 2007. March 2007. February 2007. January 2007. Contributor Archives. Charles Armstrong. Jon Husband. Jevon MacDonald. Joe McKendrick. Sean McClowry. Rob Paterson. Paula Thornton. Phil Wainewright. Sponsor Posts. Euan Semple. healthcare.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

At the time of writing this introduction (August 2006), no particular product or service exists that can definitively be categorised as a PLE, although some prototypical work is in progress. In January 2006, Blackboard Inc. , A PLE could be implemented as a mashup. A PLE could be implemented as a mashup.

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How to Get More Views on YouTube: Tips and Tricks for Social Media Managers

agora pulse

Creating a fun mashup with a good soundtrack is a surefire view grabber. Thanks to Google snippets (position zero), YouTube videos can and will show up at the top of a search if they’re relevant. Google and YouTube search engines prioritize high-quality images. YouTube is owned by Google who bought the site in November 2006.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

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Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. For starters, just google 99Designs and Pixish and youll see it isnt so. Home | Web Apps | Trends | Google | Microsoft | Facebook | Archives | Jobs.