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pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/rww-logo-150.jpg" /It's time for our weekly summary of
Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we pondered the future of YouTube,
analyzed mobile messaging trends, looked into a new search innovation from Google, and more. On the
product side, we checked in - one year later - with 10 Semantic Apps we are tracking, celebrated
the 1 billionth Mozilla addon, reported on a new Open-Source Media Center, and more. We also have
highlights from the Enterprise Channel and a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/jobwire/"Jobwire/a,
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pstronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_youtube_the_next_google.php"Is YouTube the
Next Google?/a/strong/p pemstrongimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/youtube_logo_nov08.png" align="left" //strong/emKids no
longer learn about the world by reading text. Like the television generation, they are absorbing
the world through their visual sense. But there is a big difference. Television was programmed and
inflexible. YouTube is completely micro-chunked and on demand. Kids can search for what they need
anytime. This is different, and powerful./p pTrue, the current model of YouTube is still raw and
still skewed to entertainment. But imagine online video 5 years from now, geared to kids, where
entertainment, games, education, travel -- everything for kids -- is mixed and delivered via
searchable channels. This would be a big change on the Internet and in the world. Just as we no
longer think twice about Googling, kids of the future will be consuming huge volumes of information
via video./p pstronga
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mobile_messaging_reaches_recor.php"Mobile Messaging
Reaches Record-Breaking Numbers/a/strong/p pimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/texting.jpg" align="right"Mobile messaging is experiencing
a period of record growth, according to some figures released from VeriSign earlier this week.
Looking at the numbers more closely, some interesting trends emerge. Those include the use of
messaging for social and political change, marketing, such as that done by U.S. President-elect
Barack Obama's mobile campaign, and the use of mobile messaging for charitable donations. Other
sectors experiencing significant increases are the enterprise and financial institutions. In those
two areas alone, mobile messaging has seen a 115% increase in only a year's time, and much of that
is thanks to the financial industry's adoption of the medium for business to consumer
communication./p pstronga
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_turn_search_into_wik.php"Google Turning Search
Into World's Biggest Wiki/a/strong/p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/google_logo.gif"
align="right"Google put on a full court media push this week for a major change the company is
making to its search experience - a new feature called Google Search Wiki will launch soon. The
feature will allow logged-in users to change the order of search results and mark up search results
pages with notes. Only their own results will be changed - unless they click a link to view all
Search Wiki notes on a search's page./p pRead the post for an explanation of what the feature will
do and a reaction to the announcement from Ward Cunningham, the man who invented the wiki. /p
pstronga
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/college_stops_giving_students_new_email_accounts.php"College
Stops Giving Students New Email Accounts: Start Of New Trend?/a/strong/p pimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/email_july08/p0.jpg" align="left"Officials at Boston
College have made what may be a momentous decision: they've stopped doling out new email accounts
to incoming students. The officials realized that the students already had established digital
identities by the time they entered college, so the new email addresses were just not being
utilized. The college will offer forwarding services instead./p pstronga
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_a_team.php"The A-Team/a/strong/p pimg
src="http://readwriteweb.com/images/a_team_nov08.jpg" width="125" align="right"/We like to report
good news, not just because it makes us all feel good, but because when a company is doing
something positive during a downturn, it indicates something pretty interesting about that company.
That is why a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/jobwire/"Jobwire/a reports on new hires when all
the other news is about layoffs. In that same spirit, The A-Team will be a monthly wrap-up of all
the Series A VC financing rounds in web technology. To close a Series A VC round these days, you
have to be pretty special./p pa href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_a_team.php"Read the
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src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/jobwiretinylogo2.jpg" align="left" //a pWhile the tech
world eagerly waits to see who Barack Obama will appoint Chief Technology Officer of the United
States, a similar appointment of more immediate impact to many people has just occurred. Terence
Milholland began work this week as the first Chief Technology Officer in the history of the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS). He enters an IRS that the General Accounting Office said last week
suffers from technology so outdated it leaves the agency with inadequate emintegrity, reliability
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Semantic Apps to Watch - One Year Later/strong/a/p pimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/semantic_apps_nov08b.jpg" align="left" /In November 2007,
we listed and reviewed a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_semantic_apps_to_watch.php"10 promising Semantic Web
apps/a. A lot can happen in one year on the Internet, so we thought we'd check back in with each of
the 10 products and see how they're progressing. What's changed over the past year and what are
these companies working on now? The products are, in no particular order: Freebase, Powerset,
Twine, AdaptiveBlue, Hakia, Talis, TrueKnowledge, TripIt, Calais (was ClearForest), Spock. /p
pLater in the week we published a list of a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_more_semantic_apps_to_watch.php"10
strongemmore/em/strong Semantic apps to watch/a. /p pstronga
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_one_billion_addon_down.php"Mozilla: One Billion
Addons Served - Here Are Some of Our Favorites/a/strong/p pimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/mozilla_logo_blue_nov08.png"
alt="mozilla_logo_blue_nov08.png" align="right" /Mozilla a
href="http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2008/11/19/1-billion-add-on-downloads/"announced/a this week
that it has served its 1 billionth addon download since they started keeping track of these
downloads in 2005. Currently, Mozilla's users are downloading close to 1.5 million addons every
day. Mozilla has cultivated one of the most active and interesting developer communities around its
products and seeing numbers like these will surely give a lot of other developers an incentive to
try their hands at developing new plugins for Firefox as well. In the post we list some of our
favorite addons, as well as favorites of our community./p pstronga
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_cloudfront_outlook_for.php"Amazon CloudFront:
Outlook for CDN Is Cloudy (and That's Good)/a/strong/p pimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/imgAmazonCloudFront.jpg" alt="Amazon CloudFront" width="150"
height="33" align="left" /Two months ago, a href="http://amazon.com"Amazon/a - which has taken to
sharing some of its massive computing power with mere mortals as a means of developing additional
revenue streams - announced that they were a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_to_launch_cdn.php"developing a content-delivery
network (CDN)/a to complement their existing a href="http://aws.amazon.com/s3/"Amazon Simple
Storage Service (S3)/a offering. This week, they unveiled the beta version of that service, named a
href="http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/"Amazon CloudFront/a. Boasting a now-familiar, pay-as-you-go
pricing model, Amazon CloudFront promises to make CDN an affordable addition for any site looking
to gain more efficient content delivery./p pstronga
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/boxee_raises_4_million_for_media_center.php"Boxee Raises
$4 Million for Open-Source Media Center/a/strong/p pimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/boxee_logo_nov08.png" alt="boxee_logo_nov08.png"
align="right" /These are clearly not the easiest times to secure financing for a startup, but a
href="http://boxee.tv/index.php"Boxee/a, which makes an open-source media center application that
works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and the Apple TV, just a
href="http://blog.boxee.tv/2008/11/17/welcome-on-board-bijan-and-fred/"announced/a a $4 million
investment from a href="http://sparkcapital.com/"Spark Capital/a and a
href="http://http://www.unionsquareventures.com/"Union Square Ventures/a. Bijan Sabet from Spark
and Fred Wilson from Union Square will join the Boxee board. Boxee, which is still in private beta
testing, is a media center solution that allows you to play back content from third-party providers
like Hulu, CBS, Comedy Central, or Last.fm through a very slick interface./p pemstrongSEE MORE WEB
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report by Accenture, a large number of Millennials (those born between 1977 and 1997), expect their
companies to accommodate their IT preferences, including their preferred computers and
applications. More than a third of Millennials also indicated that they were dissatisfied with the
technologies their employers currently provide./p pa href="mailto:editor@readwriteweb.com"Email
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ENTERPRISE COVERAGE IN OUR a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/enterprise/"ENTERPRISE
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