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When Google introduced Gmail in 2004, it was one of the first important web applications that used AJAX, but not in an excessive manner. Meanwhile, Yahoo and Microsoft released new versions of their ma...
[ Closed ] on 2009-04-01 EDT,
Unanswered
As of June 2007, Firefox is still the No. 2 browser (34%) in terms of market share, trailing just behind Internet Explorer (58.5%). In the past two years, Firefox has been increasing its market share...
[ Closed ] on 2009-07-01 EDT,
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Web 2.0 lets everyone share their ideas, opinions, favorite tunes, and relationship statuses with each other. Even over-employed workers will still produce some user-generated content. But it seems to ...
[ Closed ] on 2009-02-01 EST,
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YouTube recently announced a video API which allows web applications to show YouTube videos without its GUI. But before you start building your web site around the API, you should check out its Terms ...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST,
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Cuil (pronounced "cool", according to the creators) is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST,
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Will Web 2.0 Crash Before the Next Lunar Eclipse
[ Predicted ]
Web bust, but no connection.
(96% chance)
The Internet is based on speculative value; entrepreneurs create business models based on venture capital. If a company isn't "scooped up" by a larger company such as Yahoo! or Google, they won't surv...
[ Closed ] on 2009-06-26 EDT,
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By Jan 2009, we will see the Internet begin to cause a major social revolution within China, much like the fomer Soviet Union -- leading to restructuring and openess in China.
[ Closed ] on 2008-12-31 EST,
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When will Microsoft integrate Powerset semantic search into Live Search?
[ Predicted ]
after Q4 2008 or never
(61% chance)
Looks like Microsoft is taking a completely different approach in expanding its web search after the failed attempt to acquire Yahoo. This time Microsoft decides to get the next hot thing in the compu...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST,
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Will Microsoft Open-Source Any of Its Software by 2009?
[ Predicted ]
None of the above
(64% chance)
The Open Source Census, a project aiming to tally usage data on open source software in business and use that tally as a way to promote more corporate use of open source software, just signed up a surp...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST,
Unanswered
Is TechCrunch the latest tech blog to put up a "For Sale" sign in the window? AOL has approached it in July but no deal.
TechCrunch is a blog about Web 2.0 products & companies, many of the posts wr...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST,
Unanswered
How many web browsers will you have on your computer by 2010?
[ Predicted ]
4 or more browsers
(39% chance)
We have come to an era in which there are more browsers to choose from than we need. IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome etc.
If you don't want to think too much, you will probably stick with the ...
[ Closed ] on 2008-10-10 EDT,
Unanswered
Twitter is one of the fastest growing startup to gain popularity in a short time. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as tw...
[ Scored ] on 2008-10-02 EDT
Is TechCrunch the latest tech blog to put up a "For Sale" sign in the window? Well, not exactly, but word has it that the blog about all things 2.0 sat down for chats with AOL about a possible $20-30 m...
[ Scored ] on 2008-09-03 EDT
The population prediction is based on world population estimate on the CIA web site https://www.cia.go...
As of July 2007, the world population is 6,602,224,175. Let's predict how many people will be...
[ Scored ] on 2008-08-13 EDT
Yahoo just announced its support for OpenID authentication. Meaning users can log in to non-Yahoo web site using their Yahoo account. You think Google will support OpenID soon?
http://www.pcworld......
[ Scored ] on 2008-07-08 EDT