The Web 2.0 Journal News Desk keeps you up to speed with all that's happening in the world of the read/write Web and all its mushrooming new facets - from tagging, wikis, mash-ups, and image-sharing to "Advertising 2.0," podcasting, and The Writeable Web.
Internap Network Services Corporation announced its Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Managed Server solutions are helping to scale the rising demand of social Web collaboration and interactivity by powering Slingpage. Currently in open beta for the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Moz...
Xythos Software announced upgrades to its Xythos on Demand online service and its Enterprise Document Management and Digital Locker software suites. The new software and service upgrades are currently available for evaluation and purchase.
Lorrie Norrington, president of eBay's global marketplaces business, has been telling BusinessWeek about a sea change in eBay's pricing structure. Calling it "the biggest, most fundamental change we have made," Norrington has told BW that eBay will today announce plans to reduce the up...
Mint.com launched a redesign of its Webby public website. The new design reflects the many new and enhanced features added to the free product this year, and adds educational “how to” guides on managing critical money management issues including: reducing credit card debt; saving ...
Optaros introduced “The 2009 Social Ecommerce Planning Guide” that details 32 social ecommerce options to consider, with specific deployment examples and adoption rates, to assist retailers as they plan for 2009. Social ecommerce is a top agenda item for retailers in 2009, but ther...
The latest director of engineering at Facebook, one of four, is Mike Schroepfer - from Mozilla. In his blog on the move, he wrote to his Mozilla colleagues: "This is the first time I’ve decided to leave something I really truly love - I will dearly miss getting a chance to work with ...
"We have anticipated these flaws in DNS for many years and we have basically engineered around them," Ken Silva, chief technology officer at Verisign, told a reporter as Dan Kaminsky, the man who discovered a loophole in the DNS system that allows web users to be redirected to fake sit...
ActivIdentity announced that Jacques Kerrest has accepted the position of Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. In this capacity, Mr. Kerrest will oversee all of ActivIdentity’s financial and operational functions, including finance and accounting, financial planning a...
Zvents announced that it will be collaborating with Microsoft to enhance the events experience on MSN City Guides. Through the collaboration, Zvents’ platform will bring new capabilities to MSN users looking for interesting things to do in their immediate vicinity, enabling local mer...
The SEC has finally acknowledged that the nature of online information is increasingly interactive, and not static. Henceforth, according to a recommendation by its own Special Counsel in the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance, information appearing on company web sites "does not ne...
4D announced the release of 4D Web 2.0 Pack v11 Release 2. The new version, a combination of two products - 4D AJAX Framework and 4D for Flex - brings a powerful set of tools, plug-ins, and components that allow 4D developers to harness the power of Web 2.0 technologies, and deliver li...
Scrapboy Digital Media Corporation announced the availability of Scrapboy, its Facebook desktop application, to users in North America. Scrapboy allows users to stay connected with their friends' Facebook activities on their desktops and store those activities securely on the users' co...
InteleCom announced that its new Web 2.0 Social Network toksee successfully launched 3 new viral communication tools or widgets for easy copy and placement on websites and blogs. All 3 immediately received top rankings from Widgetbox. The toksee chat or video messaging widget allows to...
SL Corporation announced the availability of RTView version 5.0. This latest release allows users to mix and match a variety of Web 2.0 technologies - including AJAX and Flash - to deliver the most efficient real-time visibility applications for their needs, without requiring any techn...
myStaffingPro has added new Web 2.0 functionality into their clients' career search screens. The free enhancement expands upon the applicant's current ability to sign up for a career RSS feed. The RSS feed enables prospective applicants to sign up and receive new job positings directly...
'It's certainly a device that has energized the digitization of books,' said Tim McCall, vice president of online sales at Penguin Group USA, referring to Amazon's Kindle electronic book device. McCall was quoted at the weekend in the San Francisco Chronicle Saturday. Steve Weinstein, ...
AccuRev announced a new AJAX-based Web Interface and a native integration with Microsoft Windows Explorer for its process-centric software change and configuration management (SCCM) solution. These new capabilities make it easy to integrate every knowledge worker into the development p...
The number of subscribers using mobile Internet services will rise from 577 million currently, to top 1.7bn by 2013, spurred by demand for collaborative applications known collectively as 'Web 2.0', and greater 2.5/3G penetration. Established mobile players face increasing competition ...
According to a recent survey of 500 social networkers across Europe, 32% of social networkers believe mobiles will be used to alert users to friends or family in the vicinity. 17% believe they will be used to take lessons and lectures. Dating is the least popular, with only 5% saying m...
IBM announced IBM Mashup Center will be hosted as a free trial on the Web with which non-technical business people can use to experiment and build customized mashups following the success of early corporate adopters Boeing Corporation and Carrefour Group. On schedule for mid-year deliv...
BigSpeed Computing announced the release of BigSpeed Secure Socket Library 3.0. BigSpeed Secure Socket Library is an ActiveX control that simplifies and accelerates the development of proprietary communication solutions over the Internet. It implements a flexible message-oriented proto...
Research and Markets has announced the addition of 'Web 2.0 Server and Push Technology Market Shares Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014' to their offering. Advertising budgets have not been directly connected to the computer and technology before the Web 2.0 companies started attr...
Force10 Networks announced that Etsy has deployed the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers and the S-Series family of access switches to increase the performance and reliability of its online marketplace for handmade arts and crafts. The scalability and resiliency of the Force10...
Ulitzer, Inc., which initially made the headlines with its 'job descriptions from the future,' announced today that it will launch its Ulitzer 'beta' site on July 4, 2008, with 5,500 authors and 600,000 original articles, published in more than 5,000 topic-specific online journals. Eac...
Artech launched GeneXus X, the tenth GeneXus version, designed to expand the business opportunities of companies. GeneXus X incorporates new tools aimed at increasing the productivity of the work team and facilitate the rapid generation of corporate Web 2.0 applications.
Force10 Networks announced its enterprise switching technology will support IBM's iDataPlex. iDataPlex more than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single rack while using 40 percent less power and will be aided by the high density and robust functionality of Force10's Eth...
GoGrid announced the availability of GoGrid's QuickStart Facebook servers, which allow businesses to build and deploy Facebook applications. The QuickStart Facebook Server automates and speeds up the Facebook application setup process, enabling Facebook developers to create, integrate,...
According to research firm Gartner, more than 30% of Global 2000 organizations will enter a new era of end-user computing via user-assembled, composite applications created with enterprise mashup environments by 2010. Against this background IBM has launched its IBM Mashup Center Produ...
Pizza.com sold recently for $2.6M, and vodka.com for $3M. Domain names are now a global business. The explosive growth in online advertising has seen Internet entrepreneurs earn millions of dollars by buying, selling, developing and monetizing web addresses, or domain names. There are ...
At the AJAXWorld 2008 East Conference, DreamFace Interactive announced the availability of 'Outsider', a major new version of their DreamFace Web 2.0 Framework, for creating Enterprise 2.0 Composite Applications and Mashups. DreamFace builds on the concepts of Web 2.0: Do IT Yourself, ...
IBM announced that its new portal software with Web 2.0 support will ship this quarter. Called IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1, it is designed to securely combine information from both the enterprise and the Web. A portal is a technology for providing external and internal Web sites which can...
Artech has launched the Release Candidate (RC) of the tenth version of GeneXus, which facilitates the expansion of business knowledge to Web 2.0 due to an intuitive development environment, greater collaboration among developers and extended ability to integrate various technologies. G...
“Combining IBM and Linden Lab’s solutions together has the potential to make custom-created environments a viable option for enterprises,” said IBM's VP of Digital Convergence, Colin Parris,today as IBM and Linden Lab announced the two companies are exploring the development of e...
'We will have worldwide coverage but are concentrating on being number one in European blog search, both by controlling spam and working with all different languages,' said Martin Källström, CEO at Twingly, the European Internet start-up, as Twingly announced today that it is launchi...
Web 3.0 is a different way of building applications and interacting on the web. The core model of web 3.0 states that entire World Wide Web will be seen as a single database. Many tools are being developed through which interactivity between different websites with different data can b...
'What drew us to Bebo was its substantial and fast-growing worldwide user-base, its vision of a truly social web and the monetization opportunities,' said AOL chairman and CEO Randy Falco yesterday as he announced the acquisition by AOL of the social networking site Bebo.com for $850M ...
YeahReader is a free tool for reading news feeds in RSS, RDF and Atom formats, and podcasts. YeahReader provides all basic RSS reader functionality such as a convenient feed update system, proxy support and pop-up update notification. Besides this, YeahReader has such features as built...
IBM announced new technology to secure 'mashups,' web applications that pull information from multiple sources, such as Web sites, enterprise databases or emails, to create one unified view. Mashups are attractive for business use, as they allow non-technical users to gain insight on c...
NeboWeb announced the launch of the new ReGen Biologics corporate website powered by NeboWeb's AJAX-based Content Management System. The CMS includes intuitive content management features for page creation. With integrated editing tools, file history views with rollback functionality, ...
StrikeIron announced it has extended its sports offering with the addition of Major League Baseball (MLB) data from The Sports Network (TSN). The TSN Major League Baseball Web Service enables users to acquire up-to-date information on America's favorite pastime including league, team a...
Lorrie Norrington, president of eBay's global marketplaces business, has been telling BusinessWeek about a sea change in eBay's pricing structure. Calling it "the biggest, most fundamental change we have made," Norrington has told BW that eBay will today announce plans to reduce the up...
The latest director of engineering at Facebook, one of four, is Mike Schroepfer - from Mozilla. In his blog on the move, he wrote to his Mozilla colleagues: "This is the first time I’ve decided to leave something I really truly love - I will dearly miss getting a chance to work with ...
"We have anticipated these flaws in DNS for many years and we have basically engineered around them," Ken Silva, chief technology officer at Verisign, told a reporter as Dan Kaminsky, the man who discovered a loophole in the DNS system that allows web users to be redirected to fake sit...
The SEC has finally acknowledged that the nature of online information is increasingly interactive, and not static. Henceforth, according to a recommendation by its own Special Counsel in the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance, information appearing on company web sites "does not ne...
Pizza.com sold recently for $2.6M, and vodka.com for $3M. Domain names are now a global business. The explosive growth in online advertising has seen Internet entrepreneurs earn millions of dollars by buying, selling, developing and monetizing web addresses, or domain names. There are ...
