Web 2.0 Expo is coming around the corner again in New York.  For those of you Web 2.0ers who live near New York, I highly suggest you to check it out.

For free pass, try going to the press area and tell them that you are a blogger covering the show.

Web 2.0 Expo is a global annual gathering of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web. Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities. Web 2.0 Expo is co-produced by TechWeb and O’Reilly Media.

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One of my favorite pizzas, Pizza Hut, launches Adobe Flex Application.  Basically, you can order using their desktop Adobe Flex app instead of the traditional online ordering.

Mind you, I was an employee of Pizza Hut about 10 years ago.

The new Flex application also lets the user view their older orders as you can see here: (my last order)

The great advantage of an Adobe Flex app like this?  I don’t have to wait for the site to load and ordering is much quicker than using Pizza Hut’s online ordering system.

Adobe Air is a wonderful platform, no doubt about it. Still, who thought it would hit the mainstream quickly enough to get the attention of a multi-national restaurant chain like Pizza Hut? Jay Hathaway of DownloadSquad brings to our attention this release, which you can pull off the Web to start ordering that deep dish immediately. You can place all your usual orders as well as save some of your favorite configurations for quick repeat ordering. Perfect for the college crowd. And the startup crowd. Even the blogger crowd!

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Yahoo Glue just launched in India. Basically, Yahoo Glue combines classic search results with visual content aggregated from major websites.

Why is it not launched in the US?

Well, they are probably beta-testing the service in India before deciding to go mainstream.

The service looks pretty good except that the Yahoo Glue option is only available for popular search terms. I tried, “Zedomax” and got nothing for Glue. Well, maybe I am asking too much for their beta search engine.

Yahoo India has rolled out “Glue,” a test of a new search product that combines news, images, videos, and other content from around the Web (and other Yahoo properties) along with traditional search results that link to web pages. The coolest part I’ve found so far is the integration of Yahoo Answers

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