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rrrewind gets you reddit, digg or youtube homepages a few days back, and more

Thanks to a tweet from @byosko, I’ve discovered a nice web2.0 service aplty named rrrewind In a clean interface, rrrewind shows you today’s most famous content on link aggregators, online video, image hosters such as flickr as well as popular content on amazon and yahoo buzz. I like especially the standardized and unclutterred design which [...]

Web 2.0 Expo: Exploring ideas old and new

There were a half-dozen keynote speeches yesterday, sandwiched between the day’s seminars, exhibits, and the sideshows of the unconference, and the evening’s libations and mixers around the offices of San Francisco notables. Tim O’Reilly went on stage to repeat what Bob Metcalfe and others were saying over 12 years ago, that the network is really [...]

Web 2.0 Expo: The First Day

Greetings from very chilly San Francisco where the 2nd edition of the SF Web 2.0 Expo, organized by O’Reilly and Techweb, is going strong. Yesterday was the kick-off to the geeky celebration of all things surrounding social computing, with a full-day of seminars and demos for those willing to shell out a few extra bucks. [...]