Webapps–compared to their desktop counterparts–have the distinct advantage of being flexible in terms of the environment they have to run in; if you have a web browser and an internet connection, you're good to go.

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The Microsoft versus Google battle features two companies approaching the Web-based applications market from completely different directions.

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Flickr vs. Picasa

For the last couple of months I decided to try out Google's solution to online photo albums, Picasa. I had originally been using Flickr.

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Even in this golden age of Big Internet Companies Acquiring Everything In Sight, there are still a few independent, small webapps out there that don't get the attention they should for their useful functionality.

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In the spirit of the recent series of articles on making a mixtape I figured I would share this cool site I just bumped into - MIxaloo. It lets you create online "mixtapes" that you can easily share, and, much like on newsvine, you can make money from your creations.

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"Many social news aggregators purport to offer users a sense of participation, when in fact they are nothing more than platforms for a crude kind of representative democracy in which users vote for the ideas that they find most appealing and bury the ones they don't.

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I'm looking forward to checking this out. I hope it is better than numsum.com. It is, of course, in beta test. So...on the waiting list I go.

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... fails to mention Newsvine (though the Newsvine guys are quick to point out this site doesn't fall under the category of Web 2.0 hype).

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Editorial: Influx of new webapps creates a disjointed Internet

I jumped into Newsvine because of Leo Laporte's mention of it in TWiT (I think it was Episode 39). It was an interesting marriage of ideas, and parallels some thoughts in my blog detailing a new type of personal management software I'm working on.

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The beginning of a loose guide on building user-centered web applications, from development to user experience. The guide will be comprised of several blog posts and articles, to be published at a later date.

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