Top Trends of 2010: Social Shopping
In 2010, we’ve seen the rise of so-called “social shopping” services. They rely heavily on technologies such as social networking, crowdsourcing and smart phone scanners. Here we present five of the main social shopping developments of 2010. This kicks off a series of posts that will be published over November and December, looking back on the biggest web technology trends of the year. The Web …
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What If Facebook and Chrome Mated: Meet RockMelt
Does the world need yet another browser? It depends. If you’re like me, and spend a lot of time on the Web, but not too much time with social networking sites, you don’t. Firefox and Chrome and even IE (not to mention Safari or Opera) are more than enough. But if you can’t live without instant Facebook updates and the latest Tweets, you should check out RockMelt, a new browser designed for the …
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Google CEO Schmidt Says NFC To Extend Android Acceptance
Near Field Communications was the talk of Web 2.0 Summit early on, as Google announced that it will be included in a forthcoming phone, and powered by the next version of Android.
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