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In the early days of the Internet, web sites all looked pretty much the same. Choose a site at random and you would find a hierarchical structure consisting of a "home" age and one or more secondary pages.  In 2004, the term "Web 2.0" was coined to include new, more interactive sites that fostered a sense of community.

Weblogs constitute the most popular and widespread manifestations of Web 2.0. Unlike a traditional, structured web site, a weblog (or "blog") allows for and encourages communication between the web publisher, his/her readers, and between readers.  Most weblogs encourage comments, whereby readers add thoughts to the blog editor's articles, or ask questions.  There are a number of free or almost free weblog platforms - WordPress and Moveable Type are two of the most popular.

Weblogs also contain built in data streams called RSS Feeds.  An RSS feed allows the content of a weblog to appear anywhere a reader desires - in an RSS Reader, on a personalized iGoogle or My Yahoo page, or within the pages of another blog. An interested reader can subscribe to a weblog, consume the content however he wishes and never actually visit the weblog site again.

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• a spotter for the superlaser

  
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  A couple of rather disparate thoughts were rattling around my head for the past few days, but they did not completely congeal until I read this comment from Oliver Perry : It was discussed, perhaps here, the notion that we are able to develop a shitstorm when something goes wrong, but the author could not recall ...
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• Game-like restaurant app MOGL raises $10M for a mixed bag of loyalty & charity

  
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  MOGL , a customer loyalty platform that’s all about psychology and game mechanics, has raised its second institutional round of funding. The $10 million round brings the startup’s total amount of venture capital raised to $12.4 million. The new funding round was led by Sigma Partners, with participation from ...
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• Lance Armstrong joins Mobli’s board of directors

  
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  Mobli , a video sharing website, can add Lance Armstrong to its list of celebrity endorsers today. The famed cyclist is joining the company’s board and starting his own Mobli channel. Mobli’s goal is to show you life through another person’s eyes. It does this by allowing people to set up channels, similar to ...
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• Online Marketing News: Women Dominate Community Management, Google Privacy, FBI Social, Twitter Censorship, McD Hashtag Gone Wrong

  
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  The 2012 Community Manager Report Community Manager is an essential, yet still uncharted territory for many companies that are expanding their presence on the social web.  What should you know about the current state of this position? 67% of Community Managers work for a brand The most popular city for Community ...
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• Kabam acquires game studio Fearless Studios led by ex-Star Wars game developers

  
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  Kabam , a maker of hardcore social games, has acquired independent game studio Fearless Studios for an undisclosed price. The deal gives Kabam more development firepower and it is generally part of a wave of acquisitions happening in the game industry as social game makers try to bulk up in order to stay competitive ...
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• Nintendo cuts 3DS forecast and expects to report bigger year-end loss

  
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• Jordan: Let it Snow

  
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• Nintendo confirms Wii U to launch by year end

  
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  Nintendo will launch its Wii U video game console — the successor to the wildly successful but aging Nintendo Wii — in the U.S. and other key markets in time for the holiday shopping season later this year. Nintendo chief executive Satoru Iwata told reporters in Japan that the Wii U would be launched by the end ...
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• Rhapsody acquires Napster’s European assets for Spotify battle boost

  
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• New to the Blog: DISQUS Commenting System

  
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  Even though Im not convinced that this is a good idea, the comments are now upgraded to DISQUS. Lets see how interesting it can get.
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• Kyrgyzstan: MPs told to ride the bus

  
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• eBay CEO John Donahoe: 2012 will be an “inflection point in retail, shopping, and paying”

  
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• Playcast snags French TV provider to debut cloud gaming service (exclusive)

  
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• Apple gains early success with digital textbooks, report says

  
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• New RIM CEO squashes Android rumors for good, promises little change

  
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• Alan Wake’s American Nightmare kicks off high-quality game releases on Xbox Live Arcade

  
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  Alan Wake was a high-potential game that didn’t sell as well as expected in 2010. Critics said that the story was great, but the game play of the psychological thriller title was mediocre. Amid rivals such as the spectacular western Red Dead Redemption, which came out at the same time, Alan Wake got a lukewarm ...
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• Warning to toe-dippers: Being online ≠ going social

  
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