Kevin was in Toronto so the roundup was delayed. This week we’re featuring Wordpress upgrades, new MultiUser wordpress, and their new forum application BBPress, MS Atlas’s version 1.0 release, Web 2.0 Money, older version of IE browsers, Google co-op, and more.
Wordpress MUI 1.0 and BBPress - Wow, the good people over at wordress keep going strong. Not only did they just release the long awaited multi-user verison of wordpress (the same version they use to manage all the blogs on wordpress.com) but they also released version .72 of BBPress. Actually, they even released version 2.05 of wordpress. Phew! That’s a lot wordpress - Muchas gracias!
Google Cop-op - TechCrunch covers the release of google co-op. We really like the google co-op idea so I went ahead and built a Web Tech Blog search to easily query the leading web technology blogs. Check it out. Also, Dave went ahead and created a custom search for his indie music interests and then uses the google code to drop the results on his blogs. Nice idea Dave!
Pageflakes - I’ve bounced around the various web-desktop applications just trying to get a feel for who does what best. Initially I started out with pageflakes primarily because it was written in .NET and I like to support my fellow .NET developers but then I later ended up trying out others as well and pageflakes fell off my radar. The just recently released pageflakes version 2.0 and now I’m pageflakian one again. This one’s a keeper. Great job guys!
Pain.net - can’t afford photoshop? Paint.Net is a free image editing application written in .net 2.0 - free is good. (I guess there’s an underlying .net theme going on here)
MS Atlas - version 1.0 of Microsoft’s Ajax Pltaform named “Atlas” was released last week. This link is to the Scott Gutherie’s blog, a General Manager over at Microsoft who consistently offers excellant information on Microsoft products. His blog is an endless resource.
Whither Web 2.0? - “When the final chapter of the Web 2.0 story is written, the survivors will be the businesses that manage to build that sort of innovative relationship with consumers - and make a profit at the same time.”
IE Versions - with IE 7 being released this week thought you might want to take a look at some of the older versions, just to make sure you site can handle that one person on version IE 4.01 
Vox.com - Six Apart, creators of Movable Type have launched Vox which is their new personal blogging platform which is part blogging and part connecting through a social network. I haven’t used Vox yet but did set up an example profile here during the beta.
YouTube Video - YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth - Less than two years after launch, YouTube has become one the most-visited destinations on the web. With more than 100 million videos served daily, it may be the fastest-growing entertainment website in the history of the World Wide Web. Jawed Karim explains the thought process and the events that led to the development of YouTube. This talk was given on Oct 21st 2006 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ACM Conference.
Read/Write Web - Web Browser Faceoff - Now that both IE7 and FireFox 2 have been released, which browser should you choose? A comphrehensive review of all the major web browsers.
Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 directory. - A graphical representation of every major web 2.0 web site created by Orli Yakuel.
The Citizendium Project - The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a “citizens’compendium of everything,” will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance. It will begin life as a “progressive fork” of Wikipedia. Click here to apply for an invitation to the private alpha launch.
News at 7 - News At Seven is a system that automatically generates a virtual news show. Totally autonomous, it collects, parses, edits and organizes news stories and then passes the formatted content to an artificial anchor for presentation. Once it has assembled and edited its material, News At Seven presents it to the audience using a graphical game engine and text-to-speech (TTS) technology in a manner similar to the nightly news watched regularly by millions of Americans.
Windows Media Player 11 - MS has just released Windows Media Player 11 and it is now intregrated with Urge, the digital music service from MTV Networks. WMP 11’s other features include thumbnail and album art during music playback, improved library management with shuffle and sync playback, dedicated categories for media types, support for audio fingerprints to recognize track information, and support for two new formats: Windows Media Audio Professional and WAV Lossless.