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Indian Startups Go for Web 2.0 Gold
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Indian Startups Go for Web 2.0 Gold
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Indian Startups Go for Web 2.0 Gold
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Retailers will embrace Web 2.0 this holiday season
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Is It Time for a 'Kinder, Gentler HTML'?
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Trying to catch up in Web 2.0
American Press Institute, VA - … guy who can operate a typewriter, recognizes a pica pole and remembers the smell of molten lead figure out the social-networking world of Web 2.0? … |
Thomas Fuchs is back in the consulting game and his new site gives us another glimpse of Script.aculo.us 2.0 abilities.
The photo zooming?
Andre Lewis has a new site out there, Placeshout which offers a way to quickly call out your favourites place in various locations.
You could argue that we have other places for this… Yelp for example, or My Maps themselves. So, why Placeshout?
Sometimes, you just want a quick suggestion
When Andre and I are looking for a hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant or a park with a softball field, we usually just want a quick suggestion, not a lengthy review. We want to know if a place is worth visiting in 30 seconds.
Placeshout isn’t about volume - it’s about trying to express the positives and negatives of a destination in as few of words as possible. If people agree, that “shoutout” moves up…if they don’t, the shoutout moves down and begins to disappear.
We hope Placeshout makes it easier for you to find local destinations.
There are some interesting features in this, very Web 2.0-looking, site. One that stands out is the enhanced mapping experience on top of Google Maps. As you move around, directional arrows tell you how far various other cities are away. It is kinda fun to watch: