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• Yahoo! Search adds LinkedIn, Yelp and Yahoo Local via SearchMonkey - http://tinyurl.com/5nt3q4 #
• Delayed flying out of Albuquerque… delayed out of Atlanta…Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. #

• Yahoo VP of Platforms, Sam Pullara, built “Yuil” to tout their new BOSS API. It may just be a Cuil killer - http://tinyurl.com/5l8ctf #
• AOL survey finds 59% of Americans check email from the bathroom. Thanks @mashable – http://tinyurl.com/5fze42 #

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• Twitter musings and updates for 2008-07-27:
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• Up and getting packed for Austin, TX. Meeting with the team at http://KXAN.com. They can be followed on twitter @KXAN_News. #
• Cuil fails to anticipate the load of entering the search arena; subsequently flat-lines and becomes irrelevant - http://tinyurl.com/5l4ppq #
• KXLY.com uses their video assets as topical/channel access to archives and beef up their Tail. - http://video.kxly.com/ #
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Image via Wikipedia

As the Internet evolves from web sites to services, centralization of our data is becoming a concern.  Matt Asay from the Open Road highlights Tim O’Reilly’s recent statements on the intersection of Web 2.0 and Open Source.

One of the things that’s happening in cloud computing and Web 2.0 is centralization. We need to think about what will make this web platform of the future open.

Cloud computing is threatening to entrap the user within certain services without the flexibility of porting their data elsewhere.  The idea of the web being open in currently under fire.

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