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My partner at Ideacodes, Max Kiesler, and I are back from attending Search Champs which took place this week, January 24 - 26 at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. Search Champs is an event hosted by the MSN Search team to invite "groups of academics, bloggers, siteowners, and technologists to talk about search... We usually select this group based on who we are reading and we think would provide us great insight. We spend a couple of days with the group showing them our future plans, getting their input and making connections." This year's group included 57 attendees, with various backgrounds and perspectives, but with a common interest in making the internet more democratic, usable, and read/writable. Read more...

Two new web apps caught my eye this evening as I scanned my email: Nuvvo and Newsvine. The two sites are very different in their concept and functionality, but both share the same purpose - to enable individuals (content creators, writers, news buffs, teachers, amateurs, experts, you) to reach a larger niche audience, and to make money from it. Read more...

I first visited Corante while a graduate student transitioning from multimedia installation art to web-based work. Many (!) years later, Corante, the world's first blog media company, is still going strong - publishing diverse, unbiased views on technology, science, business, and society. Today, Corante 2.0 takes off with the launch of Corante Hubs and the Corante Network. Read more...

I'm happy to announce that both eHub and emilychang.com have been invited to join the Web 2.0 Workgroup, a network created last month by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, Richard MacManus of Read/WriteWeb, and Frederico Oliveira of WeBreakstuff. Read more...

SuprGlu "gathers your content from popular web services and publishes them in one convenient place." My first thought was that it sounded like another simple feed aggregator. I gave SuprGlu a spin tonight and was pleasantly surprised by both the ease of use and the sense of personal discovery. Read more...

I'm pleased to announce a new set of eHub Interviews (Netvibes, Codase, goowy, ColorBlender, Last.fm) has been translated into Japanese by the exceptional Ryutaro Kamitsu. Read more...

On November 1, after two weeks without updates (to inbound links and sites in the Technorati statistics), I logged into Technorati to find my site had jumped in rank from 1,616 (801 links from 423 sites) to 1,047 (1,096 links from 552 sites). At one point during the day, emilychang.com came in at number 999. Read more...

I came across an old blog post of mine that caused a double-take. The post, titled "One-Screen Access to Your Life" isn't about Netvibes or another Web 2.0 application, but cites a story at the New York Times from November 2002. Read more...

This morning I was checking my inbound links and came across a post, "I'm Off eHubwatch", by Charlie O'Donnell of Union Square Ventures. In his post, he criticizes both the validity of eHub as a resource and also vents his frustration over the business-merit of the applications that are currently listed. I'll let you read his post for yourself, but here are a few comments from my point of view. Read more...

I'm pleased to announce that Max Kiesler and I will be working with Jared Cosulich, creator of CommunityWalk, to redesign the front-end interface for the application. See the news story from my company site also posted here. Read more...

Like you, I've been reading much of the commentary online about Web 2.0 at various blogs and sites the last month or so, and particularly this last week as the O'Reilly Web 2.0 conference came and went here in SF. Read more...