Web Development News and Trends as of Year-End 2010

1. Google Gains Access to European Patent Databases

2. About.Me Officially Launches

3. So How Do You Build an Insurance-Related Company on the Web?

4. Chinaccelerator Launches Six New Startups

5. Seventy Databases that are Really, Really Important

6. There are at least twenty-five reasons why visitors leave websites immediately

7. Wicked Start is a NY-based Startup helping Startups

8. U.S. Small Business Administration Launches Redesigned Website

9. WordPress.com’s Parent Has Revenue of $10 Million Per Year

10. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich Plans to Simulate Earth

11. myHeureka Launched to Protect Ideas and Inventions

12. New York Startup has a Twist on Divorce and is Hiring for Several Spots

13. When Building Startups, Witness the Power of Blogging

14. “Google Editions” Launching

15. Create Five PowerPoint Slides, Receive $10,000,000

16. Ask Legal Questions at LawPivot.com

17. Courseload LLC is a startup for digital textbooks

18. The Economics of Seinfeld at YadaYadaYadaEcon.com

19. New Twitter “Who to Follow” People Directory

20. Are you recruiting on Facebook? Check out Work4Labs.

21. Recruiting.com sold to Jobing

22. Wanted Technologies’ New Tool Estimates Number of Candidates Per Job

23. How Do You Build a Data Startup?

24. Analyze 50% of Tweets for $360K/year

25. Get Feedback on Website Changes Before You Make the Changes

26. NUvention Helps Northwestern University Students Create Startups

27. Own a website? Ning launches social network features for it.

28. Create a Tag Cloud with http://TagCrowd.com , Using Any Website or Text

29. DeusM Creates Online Communities for Clients

30. TwitSpy is Google Maps plus Twitter Public Timeline Stream in Real Time

31. Domain Names That End in .LY May Be Endangered

32. Fabulis 2.0 Gay Social Network Launches. Facebook Twitter Foursquare
Groupon Yammer Mix.

33. Web Startup Private Valuations Are Accelerating

34. StartupQuote Launched, Features Quotes from Company Founders

35. 10 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make

36. Facebook overhauls their Like button. Can Like within Apps, apply to Pages,
and Count.

37. News.me to be launched by New York Times later this year

38. DataSphere raises $10 million for Local News software. Patch.com coming, too.
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40. Web Marketing jobs trend graph, last 5 years

41. Discover Eight Hot New Photo Startups on the Web

42. How to Improve Your Web Marketing, These 9 New Ways

43. Launch a Web Startup for less than $2,000 in 10 Steps

44. 7 New Types of Websites to Place Classified Advertisements

45. 7 More Reasons to Use Twitter: Seven New, Neat Twitter-Related Websites

46. How To Get More Out of Facebook: 8 New Websites Show You How

47. Buddypress enables you to create online communities around WordPress

48. Songwhale, connects companies to customers through texting

49. 5 Resources to Manage Multi-Author Blogs

50. 5 Reasons Why Your Website Sucks

51. YouTube Video Creation links