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At the Web 2.0 Expo today, O'Reilly Media, the most recognizable Web 2.0 business in the world, announced the launch of O'Reilly InPractice.

Components can alert the builder and other components using a topic-based event bus. For example, a news widget can publish 'new article' events incorporating a sound widget.

Now, consumers no longer need to rely on email, Web site uploads or other time-consuming, manual methods of distributing digital content.

The next stage in the 'Webware Revolution', Coghead is a web-based application for automation and business flow that drastically lowers the cost of creating custom applications.

AOL integrates with Photobucket, Google's Picasa Web Albums, Webshots to allow BlueString to access photo and video assets stored on these sites and use them to share, create, collaborate with friends on multimedia shows.

Wikipedia is for online communities what Here Comes Lucy was for the previous generations, said Clay Shirky, a high-tech mogul.

'I want to urge you to not follow the headlines ... but to think about and go after big hard problems.' Make a Difference.