Welcome Seattle Times readers!

Today was a nice little breakthrough for Web 2.0 Central. It received our first ‘main stream media’ mention via a syndicated article in The Seattle Times. Reporter Aman Batheja some how figured Web 2.0 Central is based in England. While it’s published a little way from Silicon Valley, based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, at least I don’t have to cross an ocean to get to there.

As the saying goes, it doesn’t matter if they get the location of blog wrong as long as they make the link live and spell it right. Needless to say it brought some great traffic today.

Despite the geography issues, the article is very well written and provides a nice mainstream introduction to what Web 2.0 is all about.

Competing with The Seattle Times for top traffic driver today were Paid Content and Fuzzyblog, both linking to me in relation to the short interview I did with Scott Johnson formerly of Feedster and now a founder of of Ookles.

With any luck today will also mark the 500 subscriber barrier at for my RSS feed. Not bad for 3 months of blogging though I’ve got a ways to catch up with readership of Techcrunch.

If you haven’t yet subscribed, please do. That, or throw me some link-love on Del.icio.us now that it’s back up and running from their ‘Outage 2.0′.

(Map courtesy of Yahoo Maps.)

Technorati Tags: del.icio.us, delicious, edmonton, feedster, fuzzyblog, ookles, paid content, scott johnson, seattle, Tech Crunch, web 2.0, web2.0, web20, yahoo

Have too many bookmarklets in your browser toolbar?

Blummy comes to the rescue by delivering a simple bookmarklet that brings up a window of all your bookmarklets.

Not only does it aggregate all your bookmarklets but can also embed information normally returned by bookmarklets like Pagerank, or embedding a submission form for Delicious.

Easy to try with or without registration.

Technorati Tags: blummy, bookmarklet, del.icio.us, delicious, pagerank, web 2.0, web2.0, web20

Scott Johnson formerly of Feedster is working on a new startup Ookles. No word on what it’s up to yet but they do have a standard stealth mode signup.

I had an IM conversation with Scott and he didn’t help much.

Reg Cheramy - What’s the 10 word idea of what Ookles is all about?
Scott Johnson - I’m not saying at present but its not tagging although tags are used and its not search although it has a search function.
Scott Johnson - You’ll see a number of things from me in the the forthcoming months and its going to look like massive thrashing and confusion and its not. There’s actually a strategy.
Scott Johnson - I have some ideas about online marketing and trust that I’m going to experiment with

Technorati Tags: alpha, beta, feedster, ookles, scott johnson, web 2.0, web2.0, web20

Dogear is another online bookmarking service currently in alpha. The unique feature is the ability to bookmark any sentence.

After dogear parses through a web page, the reader can click on almost any sentence to bookmark it. The sentence is highlighted and its location is sent to the dogear database.

Now you can take breaks while you read, read out of sequence, survive browser or computer crashes, and bring your readings with you wherever you go.

Technorati Tags: beta, del.icio.us, delicious, dogear, alpha, social bookmarking, web 2.0, web2.0, web20

Earlier today I was searching on google and something new popped up. It seems Google was experimenting with some interesting search refinement.

I wasn’t aware enough to take a screenshot but have been able to replicate the results.

Got a screenshot today!

On a search for Apple, it offered a few refinements (as I recall more news, more blogs)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=apple+more%3Ablogs&btnG=Search&meta=

It appended a more:blogs to the search and low and behold the search results had more blogs in them. Of course minutes later the inserted links all disappeared but manually inserting the more:blogs reference into the search bar still seems to work.

Very cool and potentially useful depending on how the variety of ‘mores’ available.

The following work:

• more:shopping_comparisons
• more:stores
• more:troubleshooting
• more:hotels
• more:reviews
• more:blogs
• more:news
• more:troubleshooting
• more:documentation
• more:travelogs
• more:scientific_literature
• more:forums
• more:manufacturers
• more:home_improvement

Technorati Tags: Google, more, search, search engine, web 2.0, web2.0, web20