February 28, 2007 by Bouchier.

The Weather Channel is going to provide interactive, detailed maps of local conditions, very local! They have partnered with Microsoft to deliver weather maps of not just major cities but neighborhoods of your home town. This has the potential to be a huge success for the Weather Channel’s website. No more guessing of how road condtions are for school districts, they can just look. Soon, you will probably be able to pull up a link on your desktop that will allow you to look at the weather outside, without actually looking outside. You could trace your route to work and see how the weather is along the way. Anything that can get more personalized, is going to get more personalized.

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February 27, 2007 by Bouchier.

Social sites such as MySpace.com, Facebook, Japan’s huge successful networking site Mixi and even YouTube.com are unquestionably one of the biggest trends on the internet in the past few years. They are only going to get bigger as they start to branch out to reach different cultures. MySpace is planning on making a push in the Japanese culture while Mixi is going to branch out to the US. With MySpace.com’s “all about me attitude” it may be hard to translate into the Japanese culture where they are not as aggressive as Americans. Japan’s social networking site Mixi is more subtle as you cannot even join unless invited by someone who is already a member. The question is why doesn’t someone create a social network that is customizable by each member? Well, actually there is one becoming popular that has this ability, Ning.com. In this social networking site users can create their own network via a blog, web page, watching video clips, or slideshows. Creates in October of 2004, Ning now serves over 30,000 social networks and growing. The versatility to create a network with little programming knowledge and a wide array of tools is something that I believe will set it apart in the future. The concept that Ning has of completely customizable social networking is the future of social networking.

Yahoo article at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070227/wr_nm/internet_ning_dc

Check out Ning at: http://www.ning.com/

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February 26, 2007 by admin.

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