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I heart Discovery Channel and if there is one time of year that I relish more than any other on Discovery, it is undeniably "Shark Week".  This year marks the 20th year of Shark Weeks on Discovery Channel, so you can expect to see some of the most over-the-top footage and coverage ever.

So how does this fit into web development and marketing?  Well, it does.  In coordination with the upcoming Shark Week, Discovery.com has added widgets for blogs and a Facebook application to stream the last teethy content to your favorite profile or hub.  Also, there is a Shark Week Video Mixer that allows for custom video production using the Discovery Channel's footage that is mashable and sharable.  Those sharks may be millions of years old but they have evolved for web 2.0.

Note:  You cannot use this widget or most others for that matter on Vox.  Vox hasn't made widgets accessible on the platform...yet.  Let's hope that the Vox team gets with the game and starts enabling this functionality...SOON.

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Valentine's Day Web 2.0 Logo

i heart everything web 2.0. 

Despite some of the naysayers, I believe there is such a movement or paradigm shift, if you will, in the web space.  While I agree that web 2.0 does not relate to a specific technology such as AJAX or DHTML, I see web 2.0 as a gauge of shifting interactivity and collaboration in online communities as well as the interoperability and convergence of these communities into mash-ups.  Mash-ups have created hybrid web properties that have furthered social networking and media sharing.  Even Time Magazine recognized this shift by naming 2006's Person of the Year as YOU!

So today, on this most sacred of holidays, I present to YOU a valentine in all its web 2.0 glory.  Social Signal was creative in writing a poetic love letter using some of the top brands in the web 2.0 space.  Be sure to click the logos to see topics and media tagged with "love" in each communities' network.

If you don't have a valentine already, web 2.0 can help. Here are some web 2.0 solutions for your love life:

• Consumating -  A new way to find people that don't suck
• Match.com - World's largest dating personal service
• Yahoo! Personals - The top online dating site
  
• PlentyofFish - 100% free world's largest online dating site
• Engage - An online version of Love Connection
• Paird - Social matchmaking
  
• GreatBoyfriends - Because friends don't let friends stay single
• VerbDate - Where people seek, speak, and meet
  
• PodDater - Online video profile dating service
• Collaboradate - Mash-up of multiple online dating sites
  
• Prescription4Love - An alternative online dating service for invdividuals with special conditions and STDs
• Personals Wikia - Free, open, and truly global dating community
• DList - Online dating for gay men
• Connexion - An online community connecting LGBT for dating, friendships and more
  

• MingleNow - Connect your offline life with your online life
• MatchTag - Find other people with the same interests
• MatchActivity - Connecting people through 1-on-1 activities

My Bloody Valentine (Simpsons)