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Latest Web 2.0 News & Articles
By Marisa Peacock
| Thursday Feb 2, 2012
Is web 2.0 a little passé by now? If it is, it makes this latest data a little unfortunate. According to a poll by SpamTitan Technologies, 76% of small and mid-size business surveyed stated that they are under pressure to allow more access to Web 2.0.
By Rikki Endsley
| Tuesday Nov 1, 2011
While some people were speculating that Yahoo! would be up for sale soon, the company was lining up an agreement to buy interclick, a proprietary advertising and technology solutions provider.
By Steve Sechrist
| Tuesday Nov 1, 2011
With Major League Baseball in its hip pocket, not to mention Comcast and Warner Brothers, Starz and Fox News, Palo-Alto, Calif.-based Auditude announced it was acquired by Adobe to help open the company to the booming video advertising market.
Some numbers floating around the net today from GigaOm suggest Adobe paid up to US$ 100 million for the company that will give Adobe a leg up in the ad management/analytics and all-important video monetization space that touches PCs, tablets, smartphones and connected (smart) TVs.
By Geoff Spick
| Tuesday Oct 25, 2011
Google's Chrome browser has now hit 30% share of web browser usage and as it continues to rise, new and improved features keep appearing, the latest being a revamp of the app store.
By Geoff Spick
| Monday Sep 12, 2011
With a bicoastal relaunch event planned for next month, Microsoft has some big plans for Hotmail to better compete against the likes of Gmail and Yahoo.
By Geoff Spick
| Wednesday Sep 7, 2011
IT Magazine KMWorld takes its annual peek at those making waves in the world of knowledge management and other tech areas, with this year's beneficiaries including iAPPS and Acquia Network.
By Geoff Spick
| Friday Aug 26, 2011
A year ago, Google was looking for answers to its problem of a lack of a social face. Now that it has Google+, it is ditching the acquisitions and experiments that failed along the way.
By Geoff Spick
| Tuesday Aug 23, 2011
CMS vendor OmniUpdate brings its education-sector focused product up with a focus on user interaction through a Live Delivery Platform.
By J. Angelo Racoma
| Thursday Jun 30, 2011
One way of making a website more interactive and up-to-date is by pulling content from other, relevant sources. While content aggregation is one thing, adding a social dimension to content mash-ups will make things more interesting. Popular social bookmarking site StumbleUpon (news, site) has launched an application that makes such sharing of content easier through widgets.
By Geoff Spick
| Tuesday Jun 28, 2011
Google (news, site) has sneaked out a new page that brings a broad range of information on your favorite topics to one dynamic page.
By Josette Rigsby
| Thursday May 26, 2011
We’ve said it before: Data is getting bigger and more valuable. Modern consumption leaves a trail, and that left by Internet consumers is no different. Like a boat in a digital ocean, constant connectivity, rampant social media, location-aware mobile devices and other online interaction is leaving bits of debris behind — data — and marketers want it. Companies are aggregating this information in an attempt to have a more holistic image of the customer to engage more completely, but why should companies have all of the fun? A new brand of personal data aggregation services is emerging that changes things.
By Geoff Spick
| Friday May 20, 2011
LinkedIn (news, site), went public yesterday, generating a barrage of press and headlines, and a lot of nostalgia for the dot-com days. Is this a sign of things to come?
By Jason Campbell
| Wednesday May 18, 2011
Despite the recent move to a freemium model, WorkSimple (news, site) continues to add features to its platform. And yet the question remains: Is WorkSimple social goals management or micromanagement-as-a-service?
By Geoff Spick
| Thursday May 12, 2011
As Google (news, site) gets ready to unleash the Chrome OS, hardware makers such as Samsung are preparing their products to run the web-based OS.
By Geoff Spick
| Tuesday May 10, 2011
Today sees the kickoff for Internet World 2011 and we'll bring you all the news and events throughout the three days of speeches, keynotes, news and any rumors or gossip that emerges.
By Marisa Peacock
| Friday Apr 29, 2011
What does a former attorney and Blackjack Tournament winner have in common with some of the most prestigious media outlets? According to Sheldon Goldberg, targeted online advertising. And that’s why he’s suing them.
By Geoff Spick
| Wednesday Apr 13, 2011
Microsoft (news, site) was showing off some early code for IE10 and Windows 8, but you can actually go play with the in-development browser right now.
By Josette Rigsby
| Monday Apr 11, 2011
Cotendo, a site acceleration and content delivery network (CDN), announced the general availability of a cloud-based CDN, Cloudlet. The CDN provides better support for targeted and personalized content, a necessity for Web 2.0 style sites.
By Geoff Spick
| Thursday Apr 7, 2011
Antivirus vendor AVG (news, site) is broadening its scope by offering cloud storage with its new LiveKive data backup service.
By Geoff Spick
| Monday Apr 4, 2011
Productivity apps for the iPad are pouring in, and here comes one from iBuildApp that offers a direct route to self-publishing.