Cool stuff on the web: wordpress, sharedcopy, alex web service

Myspace, Flickr, Netflix and all that - Hot sites and trends on the web

http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Cool_Websites (seminar wiki)

The (short!) presentations will be very informal and there's lots of interaction with the audience. Rotunda 3rd floor.

! OPEN TO EVERYONE !

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wordpress (Ingmar) - Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it - they have a blog! And I have one as well. Wordpress is one of the big blog providers. Come and find out what you can do with a blog.
http://www.wordpress.com

sharedcopy (Jochen) - Share a page. Any page. Put sticky notes & highlighted text on any webpage. Share by simply giving someone a URL. Web2.0 in action.
http://www.sharedcopy.com

alexa web services (Henning) - Besides providing popular traffic statistics, Alexa is running a (profitable???) web services business. It was in December 2005 when they opened up their web indexing technology to the paying public. Once anticipated as a big strategic move it has been quiet for some time around them. Focus is on web service business and how to access a 300TB web archive.

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Send an email to iweber@.. if you would like to present something in
this informal setting. If you don't have any idea yourself, you'll be provided with a choice of websites to present.