Category Archives: web 2.0

Searching outside the search box

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

A large untapped opportunity in social networks is connecting people with information they’re looking for. I was flying home this weekend from Lake Tahoe and connected in Salt Lake City. While I was there, I updated my Facebook status to … Continue reading →

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Marketing on social networks

Posted on November 5, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Social networks like MySpace and Facebook are among the leaders in user engagement, with many users returning daily and some visiting many times a day. They’ve almost reached the same level of engagement as email* and have double the engagement … Continue reading →

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Trying new ways to cover fires

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Crises force people to think differently. Faced with a rapidly moving story, media outlets in Southern California have done an outstanding job in adopting Web 2.0 tools to keep readers informed during the tragedy. SignOnSanDiego, the Web site of the … Continue reading →

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Geotagged YouTube videos come to Google Earth

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Google has integrated geotagged YouTube videos into Google Earth. By selecting the “YouTube” layer in the “Featured Content” section section of Google Earth, you can see the locations of YouTube videos. Clicking on the icon allows you to play the … Continue reading →

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The power of the social graph

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

There are many things I hate about Facebook’s Photos application: It doesn’t support high resolution photos. I get a Java cache error every time I try to upload pictures. You can’t search the pictures. It doesn’t use commonly provided EXIF … Continue reading →

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People tagging on Facebook

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a big proponent of geotagging. As I’ve gotten deeper into Facebook, I’ve also become a big fan of people tagging. People tagging allows you to uniquely identify people in pictures. Tagging can … Continue reading →

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Editing photos, as easy as pie at Picnik

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Picnik is part of a new class of Web-based photo editing tools that’s making sprucing up photos easy and fun. Picnik does a lot of the things that desktop photo editors do, but with a lot less work. The basics … Continue reading →

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Fun with photos

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

I’ve been playing with some Web 2.0 photo tools this week and realizing how simple it is to make fun experiences. Here’s a slideshow I put together with Slide. This took all of three minutes. Select a theme, transition, music, … Continue reading →

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NY Times launches My Times

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

The New York Times has opened its My Times customized home page to the public. (via Techcrunch) Anyone who has used My Yahoo!, Pageflakes, Netvibes or iGoogle will find the look and feel very familiar. The default modules include Journalist’s … Continue reading →

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Google introduces embeddable maps for your Web site

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

In the latest incarnation of widgets that let users slice-and-dice content, Google Maps is now allowing users to embed maps on Web sites. Several of Google’s other properties allow users to embed content, including YouTube’s embeddable videos and Picasa’s slideshows. … Continue reading →

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