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Finding The Lowest Price: Cheap Uncle Mashes Up Savings

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

If you have a coupon clipper or rebate hound in your family—someone who seeks out the lowest possible price on any goods they purchase—you’ll want to know about Cheap Uncle, a new online service designed by Chicago-based Duo Consulting that helps consumers find the ...

Filed under: Mashups : Service Design : Web 2.0 : Examples

[Web 2.0] SeeqPod Introduces “Playable Search”

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Ever wish you could search the web for a special song or video and actually find and listen to/view it within seconds? Thanks to the folks at SeeqPod, now you can. The team at SeeqPod is passionate about technology as well as music. So they decided to apply some pretty ...

Filed under: Music : Web 2.0 : Examples

Understanding Web 2.0: Innovative Video Communicates What Words Alone Cannot

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

If you’ve been struggling to understand the hoopla surrounding Web 2.0, check out this innovative and captivating video from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, at Kansas State University. In just a few minutes, you’ll start to see how the web ...

Filed under: Web 2.0 : Examples

SlideShare: YouTube for Presentations

Monday, October 30, 2006

We’ve received numerous requests for copies of slide presentations over the years. Now, with the help of our favorite online slide sharing service, SlideShare, we can share our slides with you via a web browser.

SlideShare is like YouTube for presentations. ...

Filed under: Presentations : Technical Writing : Web 2.0 : Examples

Incredibooks: Kids Creating Structured Content With Blogs

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Structured blogging is a mystery to many technical writers and other content creators. But it needn’t be. Creating structured content for reuse with the help of a blog is easy. So easy, in fact, children are doing it (and making a profit). Check out Incredibooks for a ...

Filed under: Blogs & Blogging : Structured Blogging : Web 2.0 : Examples

Pandora’s Jam Box: Internet Radio That Learns From You

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

How do you get millions of people to voluntarily tell you what they like and dislike and to help you categorize an entire library of content. Offer them something they want. That’s exactly what internet radio pioneer Pandora is doing, to the delight of listeners. ...

Filed under: Content Management : Music : Metadata : Music : Web 2.0 : Examples

SafariU Shakes Up Academic Book Publishing

Thursday, April 06, 2006

SafariU makes life much easier for computer science and information technology educators. Its web-based custom publishing platform enables higher education instructors to create, publish—even share—customized computer science and information technology texts and ...

Filed under: Content Management : Publishing : Search : Web 2.0 : Examples : XQuery