Downloadsquad has an article about a yet-to-be-released-into-beta web-based organiser called Scrybe.
Scrybe appears to be quite different to  others in this space, in that it offers the promise of off-line availability, time-zone awareness, note-taking, annotation and contextually-based usability; ok, that all sounds kind of vapourware-ish, but I can’t think of how to better express it - watch [...]

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I followed a link from here to this article, about how the frequency of posting to your blog doesn’t matter anymore. From Eric’s post:
“Thou shall post every day” is the most fundamental and most well known principle of blogging….

It’s something that every beginning-blogger reads about, and something that I wrestled with when I started this [...]

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Billion? I’ll say it again… BILLION.
Confirmed just a few minutes ago at Techcrunch, this will be the news lighting up the blogosphere for the next few hours. More than likely the fact that Google bought You Tube won’t be the big story. The cost of the deal - $1.65 billion - will be the talking [...]

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After I posted this, I had an email from a guy (Holy cow, I have a reader?!!?) who asked me why I was so down on Web 2.0 when there’s so much cool stuff going on.
And, he’s right, there is. No one can argue how “Web 2.0″ technologies and techniques have been used to vastly improve [...]

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Just read Techcrunch for week and see how many new, VC-backed start-ups are doing what so many other VC-backed start-ups are doing: social-networking, Flash video-sharing, IM, or blogging; throw in a pastel colour pallete, rounded corners and AJAX and make sure your new firm ends with the letter “r” (or should that be “lettr”?), and, Boom!, you have [...]

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Valleywag is reporting that Eric Schmidt is prepping us for the world beyond Web 2.0.
Surely, one rapidly inflating bubble is enough for the moment…?

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