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Success Factors: What traditional business really needs to know about Web 2.0

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Web 2.0 and Social Media Answers

O'Reilly Answers: Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

• How Twitter followers propagate information by Alistair Croll of Bitcurrent
• Software Freedom in a 'Data is the Intel Inside' world
• How to Expand Your Brand on Facebook: Groups vs. Pages and Marketing Passively
• SEO Tips for Mindshare/Branding
• How to Make Your Social Media Marketing Goals SMART

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Web 2.0 News & Commentary

Being online: identity, anonymity, and all things in between

By Andy Oram
December 17, 2009

Social networking gives us an impetus to review how we appear online. Introduction to an article about identity and anonymity.

GWT Now With SpeedTracer

By Brady Forrest
December 9, 2009

Google is releasing v2 of GWT (pronounced "Gwit") tonight at a Campfire One in Mountain View. The open-source Google Web Toolkit enables developers to code Ajax web apps in Java. This latest release is focused on speed (just like the latest iPhone) and improved dev-designer collaboration. I was on a call with Bruce Johnson and Andy Bowers to learn...

The War For the Web

By Tim O'Reilly
November 16, 2009

On Friday, my latest tweet was automatically posted to my Facebook news feed, as always. But this time, Tom Scoville noticed a difference: the link in the posting was no longer active. It turns out that a lot of other people had noticed this too. Mashable wrote about the problem on Saturday morning: Facebook Unlinks Your Twitter Links. if you’re...

Quarantined Conferences: Claustrophobic Technophiles or Attentive Audiences?

By Mark Drapeau
November 11, 2009

Loren Feldman. 1938 Media. Audience Conference. That’s about as much of a summary as you’ll find about the Audience Conference held in New York last Friday. That’s because there were no open laptops allowed during the performances. There was also no Wi-Fi, no video streaming, no tweeting, and no blogging. Something akin to omertà joined the members of the Audience...

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Web 2.0 Experts

Tony Stubblebine is an Internet consultant and author of Regular Expression Pocket Reference.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. In addition to Foo Camps ("Friends of O'Reilly" Camps, which gave rise to the "un-conference" movement), O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the Web 2.0…

Sarah Milstein writes, speaks, and teaches frequently on Twitter. She is also co-founder of 20slides.com, a site for lively, work-related workshops. Previously, she was on the senior editorial staff at O'Reilly, where she founded the Tools of Change for Publishing conference (TOC) and led the development of the Missing Manuals, a best-selling…

Dori Smith is coauthor of Mac OS X Unwired, JavaScript for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide, 4th Edition, author of Java 2 for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide, and a contributor to numerous online and print computer industry magazines.

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