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E-consultancy reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair paid a visit to Silicon Valley on Sunday:

Hopefully the PM will have left with some ideas about how to create an environment in which dotcom and tech start-ups can flourish here in the UK.
The visit saw Blair urged to set up his own blog, as well to change attitudes to failure in business.
“In …read the rest of this article

The largest and perhaps the most daring Web 2.0 project is the Wikipedia. This online encyclopedia is free and it is created through contributions by its users. You or I write and submit articles on a subject of interest, and then other users, rather than officiating editors, add to and correct those articles. With millions of articles already, and about …read the rest of this article

I like Flock, the social web browser. The integration with blogs, photo-sharing and online bookmarking sites is really well done. And the design looks fantastic. Having a built-in RSS reader is a great bonus and miles ahead of Firefox’s Live Bookmarks or the weird and unintuitive use of feeds in Thunderbird or Opera. So am I moving from Firefox? No …read the rest of this article

Wondered about Yahoo! and China? Censored search results? Shopping journalists to a communist state machine?
Here’s what a company spokesperson told me:
“Yahoo! opposes the punishment of any person on the grounds of what may be called free speech. We firmly oppose that. However, we have to abide by the local laws of whatever country we operate in. If we did not, …read the rest of this article

More long-tail criticism from The Register, which isn’t very taken with the whole 2.0 thing.

The American House of Representatives passed Resolution 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), by a 410 to 15 vote yesterday. This will require schools and libraries to block access to social networking sites and chat rooms by children. Organisations that do not block access will lose their government subsidies. The subject has excited intense interest among people who don’t …read the rest of this article

Yesterday, I spoke with Mark Opzoomer. Mark was the MD of Yahoo! Europe between 2001 and 2003. Now he’s involved in a number of ventures, but I was talking to him about his participation with Garlik. Garlik is set to launch as an online privacy service later this year. The idea is that they’ll scour the web looking for the …read the rest of this article