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  • Flock

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    Flock is awesome. For now I’ve made the switch from Firefox to Flock’s Beta v0.7. What is Flock? Well, Flock is the expert on themselves so here’s their description: The web, and the way people engage online, has evolved dramatically over the past decade. We still see a lot of room for the browser to…

  • MasterWish – Practicing What I Preach

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    MasterWish, my labor of love (created with my friends Zach Tirrell and Jon Emmons) is my playground for Ajax and Web 2.0 experiments. If you haven’t been acquainted with the site, its a wishlist site with a schlew of features. The high point is the ability to secure down lists and grant access to specific…

  • Google Acquires Writely

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    Back in October I was extremely excited about Writely. It has been a few months and my love for the word processing application grows each time I use it. I wrote: The gist of this application is that its a Word Processor online! You can type documents (much like you can with MS Word or…

  • Look Ma, Cross-Domain Scripting!

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    Ajax, as I’ve stated time and time again, is sweet. So what is problem? XMLHTTPRequest requires that the called scripts that execute server side and return information to the client must reside on the same domain. This has irked me time and time again during my exploration and experimentation of the Web 2.0 world. Enter…

  • Amazon Tags!

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    About Time! According to CNet, Amazon is heading down the road of tagging. This is great news in my book. I’m a follower of the Web 2.0 movement and have really been turned onto the idea of folksonomy (tagging) by products like Flickr and thus have recently brought MasterWish on board with tagging. While many…

  • MasterWish Enters the Web 2.0 World

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    MasterWish has been my labor of love for the past 6 months. The site – create by Zachary Tirrell, Jon Emmons, and myself – was opened to the public (in beta mode) in the middle of September. Over the past month, we’ve been pretty excited about the whole Web 2.0 craze. The initial release was…

  • Leetster

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    World of Warcraft, as I’ve mentioned before is a very popular game. WoW, however, is more than just the game aspect…it is extremely social. Players can create guilds – which are organizations in game – and participate in a variety of player created events and interactions with other players. Guilds typically create websites (like this…