Latest Web 2.0 News & Articles

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CMS vendor OmniUpdate brings its education-sector focused product up with a focus on user interaction through a Live Delivery Platform.

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.

Google (news, site) has sneaked out a new page that brings a broad range of information on your favorite topics to one dynamic page.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Antivirus vendor AVG (news, site) is broadening its scope by offering cloud storage with its new LiveKive data backup service.

Productivity apps for the iPad are pouring in, and here comes one from iBuildApp that offers a direct route to self-publishing.