<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a095dc26-3a15-4a53-ba3f-2e8cea4fdf0d/7D6850D6-42E8-4D85-89DF-5D0A02B8D2A3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.com.com/Microsoft+Web+plan+takes+aim+at+Google/2100-1007_3-5855244.html" href="http://news.com.com/Microsoft+Web+plan+takes+aim+at+Google/2100-1007_3-5855244.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.com.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.com.com/Microsoft+Web+plan+takes+aim+at+Google/2100-1007_3-5855244.html"><P>The software company plans to open access to its MSN and other public Web sites to let developers assemble new applications that build on those sites--a technique used successfully at <A title="Google aims for Web developers' hearts and minds -- Friday, Aug 26, 2005" href="http://news.com.com/Google+aims+for+Web+developers+hearts+and+minds/2100-1007_3-5843402.html?tag=nl">Google</A> and at other Web companies to promote their properties. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.com.com/Microsoft+Web+plan+takes+aim+at+Google/2100-1007_3-5855244.html"><P>The goal: to embrace the <A title="From Web page to Web platform -- Tuesday, Aug 16, 2005" href="http://news.com.com/From+Web+page+to+Web+platform/2100-7345_3-5833940.html?tag=nl">emerging model, often called Web 2.0 or the programmable Web</A>, where new applications are built using pieces of existing, public Web sites. Rather than simply providing access to Web pages, these companies treat their <A title="From Web page to Web platform -- Tuesday, Aug 16, 2005" href="http://news.com.com/From+Web+page+to+Web+platform/2100-7345_3-5833940.html?tag=nl">Web sites as a development platform</A>, much like an operating system. For example, a third-party developer could write an application, or "mash-up," that pulls location information from a person's blog and plots it on a map using Google Maps or a similar service. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7D6850D6-42E8-4D85-89DF-5D0A02B8D2A3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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