The “Vesper Bar & Lounge,” a four story building in Brooklyn, New York, collapsed today just before 2pm ET. There were luckily no casualties and just four minor injuries. The establishment was closed at the time of the collapse.
Images of the collapse were instantly posted to photo-sharing sites (see here and here).
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It finally happened.
The Global Language Monitor announced today that Web 2.0 has beaten Jai Ho, n00B and Slumdog as the millionth English word or phrase.
It has officially now been added to the codex of the fourteen hundred-year-old English language. Web 2.0 is a technical term, of course, meaning the next generation of World Wide Web [...]

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The FBI has finally decided to get with the whole “Web 2.0″ movement. They have announced that they’ve “set up shop in several social media websites.”
The FBI now has a profile on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and is working on a widget for MySpace.
There is even an FBI “Most Wanted” application for the iPhone .
From [...]

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Twitter turns thee years old today at 4:01pm EDT.
Founding CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted earlier today linking back to some of the earliest tweets at the company, which at the time was jokingly referred to as “twttr”.
Like any three-year-old, it had a little bit of a tantrum earlier today.
In the wee hours of Saturday [...]

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Web 2.0 is dying a slow death, at least it seems that way.
Looking at Google Trends, the term “Web 2.0″ started being used at the end of 2004, when Tim O’Reilly organized the first edition of the Web 2.0 Conference.
Searches for the phrase started picking up in the middle of 2005 and continued increasing until [...]

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I just saw the most fascinating video over at GarryConn.com, I had to share it with you.
Have you ever wondered what Web 2.0 is…really?  I mean, what’s the definition of Web 2.0?  Sure, you could look it up in the dictionary, but what fun would that be?
This video speaks to the very core of the [...]

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