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Here are some Web 2.0 stats according to Ziff Davis Innovations:

• 74%:  The number of CIOs who say the advent of so-called Web 2.0 applications will significantly increase their security risk over the next three years (CIO Insight);
• 12%: The number of US online consumers using RSS (Jupiter Research);
• 12 million: The number of households that will regularly subscribe to podcasts by 2010 (Forrester Research);
• 52.4 million: The number of blogs tracked by Technorati as of August 2006 (Technorati);
• 67,000: The number of new blog entries posted each hour (Technorati);

Which technologies fall under “Web 2.0″?

• Blogs
• Mashups
• Microcommerce
• Podcasts
• RSS
• Service-Oriented Architecture
• Social Networks
• Software as a Service
• Wikis

I’m a PC, I’m a Mac, I’m a VAIO?!

Here’s Sony using Apple’s “I’m a Mac” ad campaign. Who wants a non-pc pc?

I wrote a while ago about accessing your Gmail account using Opera Mini on a mobile device. Well, Google came out with their our java Gmail application, which is great! I downloaded it OTA on my Blackberry, about 160Kb.

The application loads faster than the browser and it has built-in most of the Gmail menu functions:

• Starred
• Search
• Compose Mail
• Open
• Refresh
• Archive
• Mark as read
• Add star
• Report spam
• Delete

You don’t have to load a web page for each of the actions above, as they are part of the actual application. Really neat!

Note that if you’re using it on a Blackberry, you need to explicitly quit the program by going to Menu > Exit Gmail in order to ensure that Gmail is not running in the background. If you go to your Application or Main Menu without explicitly exiting, the Gmail application will run in the background, periodically checking for new email and using data.

At this point, Google does not support Apps for Your Domain mail accounts.

See the list of supported mobile devices. BTW, the Palm Treo is not a supported device. More Gmail mobile FAQs.