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Tools to Create Mashups

Programmable Web posted a blog about tools to create mashups. For example, Dapper and OpenKapow make it easy to create web services based on scraped web sites. And, I made […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- January 24, 2007
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53 CSS Techniques You Couldn't Live Without

Smashing Magazine came up with a link-list post called 53 CSS Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without. It links to cool CSS effects that are easy enough to add to your […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- January 24, 2007
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Amazon.com Greybox Product and Barriers to Entry

I was reading TechCrunch today and noticed an article about booBox, a lightbox product that allows Amazon affiliates to incorporate cool web-2.0 “popups” with Amazon.com products into their site. I […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- January 21, 2007
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Shuzak.com: Social Network for Geeks

Well, I may have to start up a social networking category. I ran across Shuzak, a “social network for geeks.” While the idea of niche-based social networks (or vertical social […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- January 15, 2007
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Free Social Networking Software

As I mentioned in Social Networking for Sale, I believe social networking software/sites (SNS) will become pretty commoditized in 2007. It’s already pretty cheap & easy to get your own […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- January 14, 2007
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Social Networking for Sale

I’ve been talking with different clients about building social networking sites. What I’m hearing more is the interest in specialized or vertical social networks (VSNs). Then what I hear is […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- January 4, 2007
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Import Email Addresses and Contacts into your Web Site

Maybe you’ve seen some of the new cool web sites that automatically let you import people from your Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail, or other contact lists. That way your users don’t […]

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Written by DevelopmentNow -- November 29, 2006