Category Archives: Web 2.0

F8 Platform: an example of an open, easy to switch marketplace for apps

Posted on August 15, 2007 by Nick Dynice

Right now it seems most Facebook users are experimenting with apps that are fun to use with friends. They are free, so there is no financial risk for using the wrong one (but there are social risks such …

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The FaceBook App Strategy

Posted on July 31, 2007 by Nick Dynice

On July 28th Kareem Mayan hosted and organized LA’s first FaceBook Developers Garage at Mahlo’s HQ in Santa Monica, Ca., courtesy of JC. About 50 developers, hackers, strategist, marketers, and entrepreneurs attended. The event is part of …

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Symfony-Project/PHP programmers wanted for web app project

Posted on June 12, 2007 by Nick Dynice

My partners and I are seeking a programming/developer team for a web app project in PHP/Symfony-project/MySQL. The first task we are looking to assign is part of a larger project, and if the results are satisfactory, …

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Today’s Professions are Tomorrow’s Hobbies and DIY Tasks

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Nick Dynice

The demands for particular professions come and go. The people ordained into the priesthood of some professions like to think that his or her service as a scarce good even in the face of the DIY ethic, sometimes …

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How to consume SXSWi07 in realtime without being there with web 2.0

Posted on March 11, 2007 by Nick Dynice

Why sit hat home and be sad that you could not make it to SXSWi? Web 2.0 offers tools that will let you know about any major (and extremely minute) developments, minus the actual face-to-face conversation you might …

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Google Reader/Homepage subscriber numbers will now appear in Feedburner stats

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Nick Dynice

Check out this post on the Google Reader blog. You should no longer see this message in your Feedburner stats in a couple days, along with more accurate subscriber number reporting for subscibers using these rss readers.

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Post to your web apps through IM with IMified

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Nick Dynice

Imified looks pretty damn cool. I can’t wait to check it out. It works with Basecamp, Google Calendar, Remember the Milk, 30Boxes, Backpack, Blogger, Movable Type, TypePad, WordPress and probably others to come (Salesforce in the …

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Jason Calacanis and Mike Arrington plan a ‘free to present’ startup showcase

Posted on January 31, 2007 by Nick Dynice

Full story here.

This is a great idea. I agree that people like Chris Shipley are just there to skim-off the VC money that startups received by charging an insane amount of money just to present (but I give …

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Google Homepage Adds New Features

Posted on January 23, 2007 by Nick Dynice

Last week I had just switched from Netvibes back to Google Home Page as my RSS reader. This time, I decided to use the tab feature so that I would only have about 10 to 15 feeds per …

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Firefox 3: Connecting your web apps with Microformats

Posted on January 2, 2007 by Nick Dynice

Richard MacManus reports that Firefox 3 will allow semantic markups that connects your web apps together. This is a great idea, one that seems to merge the web 2.0 paradigm with the semantic web paradigm. However, I …

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