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The What and Where of Wikis
We talked to Wikia co-founder and former Wikipedia board member Angela Beesley about what the future holds for Wikis, the authenticity issues they face and what Wikipedia learned from the Wikiscanner affair. Read more »
John Allsopp delivers his State of the Web address
During our coverage of Web Directions South Builder AU ambushed John Allsopp, an organiser of the conference, during lunch and asked him to give us the low down on where the Web is now, and where it's going. Read more »
Designing Web applications
SlideShare CEO Rashmi Sinha gives us her advice on designing for Web applications and social networks. Read more »
IE's popularity plan
Microsoft's Platform and Security group manager of Internet Explorer, Chris Wilson, talks to us about how IE is planning on stemming the slow fall in market share. Read more »
What is Popfly?
Microsoft evangelist and professional geek Nick Hodge gives us the low down on the Silverlight based mashup engine Popfly, and gives us a quick demonstration of it's application building abilities. Read more »
Rashmi Sinha on Slideshare
Rashmi Sinha is the founder and CEO of SlideShare, the online presentation sharing application that has been likened to YouTube for slideshows. We ask her how to make a social networking site work, and how to deal with the problems of increasing popularity. Read more »
The future of mashups
While at Web Directions South we took the opportunity to talk to Adrian Holovaty, creator of the Django framework and founder of EveryBlock, and asked him where he saw the mashup trend heading. Read more »
Kickstarting your startup
We caught up with Mike Canon-Brookes, founder and CEO of Atlassian Software Systems while at Web Directions South and asked him if he had any advice for software developers thinking of starting their own software company. Read more »
Designing for voyeurs
Flickr serves out thousands of photos every day to users hanging out for a glimpse into the lives of other people. We talk to George Oates, the woman whose job it is to make voyeurism easier than ever before. Read more »
The spider's Web of CSS
Finishing up our Web Directions South build up, we talk to Andy Clarke, Web designer, presenter and invited expert to the W3C's CSS working group. Andy gave us the low down on standards, the new way of designing Web sites and the problem with Web 2.0. Read more »
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Gates: Everything will be a computer
In the coming years, the conference table will be a computer, the whiteboard will be a computer, says Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »
Opera browser for mobile phones mimics iPhone's Safari
At the Digital Life Show in New York City, ZDNet executive editor David Berlind gets a demonstration of an iPhone-like browsing feature that Opera will be introducing into Opera Mini, a browser designed specifically for mobile phones. Read more »
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Microsoft shows off IE9 previewThis week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »
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In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »
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Google launches Apps Marketplace
Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »
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