“Social networking” is the newest “buzz” word for the technophobic replacing the previous buzz word web 2.0. Social networking is beginning to make a spash in the retail advertising sector and Madison Avenue types.
According to this post, Microsoft has been going head to head with Google for over four years. Ballmer vowed to kill Google at least as early as 2005. Now Microsoft is calling out Google on trademark issues. Microsoft makes a very valid point, Google has leveraged other people’s trademarks to make a vast fortune in advertising fees. They make a good case that Google was the original black hat on the internet.
These days, one surefire way to get your indexed by Yahoo is to sign your website up with Yahoo’s site search.
Programmableweb a pretty comprehensive list of Web 2.0 APIs for Mashups, etc. This is one of those pages that make you say “wow!”
http://www.programmableweb.com/apilist