Web 2.0 Expo: Web apps invade San Francisco
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More than 1.9 million votes were cast in the 2008 Webware 100 contest for favorite Web 2.0 applications. The following are the top 10 vote getters, in alphabetical order:
DeviantArt
Facebook
Firefox
Friendster
Gaia Online
Google
iTunes
Maxthon
MySpace.com
YouTube
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Video: Sun CEO speaks out on corporate blogging
Jonathan Schwartz is credited for pioneering the corporate blog as a tool to reach customers, employees, and others, but he predicts the novelty of his methods will soon wear off.
Video: High-performance computing for Web 2.0
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz talks about the company's new high-performance computing facility in Austin, Texas, and how Web 2.0 companies like Facebook and Google are benefiting.
Video: Mozilla chair reveals mobile Firefox
Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker talks about the company's plans to enter the smartphone market with Fennec, a mobile version of its Firefox browser.
Images: Rewiring Yahoo
Born as a Web portal, the company wants to create a new experience--social and open--for both consumers and developers.
Video: Marc Andreessen, past and present
Netscape co-founder talks about his current social-networking site Ning, and the impact of Facebook apps and Google's OpenSocial.
Video: Circling the show floor
It's not just all about Facebook and Twitter. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi takes a spin around the showroom in search of meaningful companies and products.
Video: Yahoo CTO talks up Open Strategy
Ari Balogh discusses YOS, whose goal is to help Yahoo's front page, plus properties such as Yahoo Mail, offer a more relevant and contextualized user experience.
Video: Live Mesh revealed
Amit Mital, general manager of Live Mesh at Microsoft, demonstrates the company's new "software plus services" platform.
Images: Hands-on with the Live Mesh consumer app
Microsoft's Live Mesh is an ambitious strategy to tie together users' devices and data. The first consumer-facing version of the technology is a product of the same name that synchronizes files and folders between PCs.
Video: And the Webware 100 winners are...
An overview of the 100 top Web apps, 10 each in 10 categories, according to Webware users and the fans of the products that were finalists in the awards.
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