Latest Web 2.0 News & Articles

At long last, the Comscore year-end numbers for the major social networks are available. The numbers indicate Facebook, already the worldwide leader, is on track to overtake MySpace for unique visitors in the US by 2010.

One could see this as a victory of order over chaos.

The race for enterprise 2.0 stardom is on. Companies like Microsoft, Adobe,  Amazon and Skype have all been in recent news regarding the topic.

Sadly,  SuiteTwo, an Intel-backed enterprise 2.0 suite, is dropping out when competition is tough and the economy is even tougher.

It's always nice to see one vendor offer rescue support to the clients of another vendor who is closing their doors. In this case, SubHub, a provider of membership website content management services is offering to help clients of vTribes (also known as VisionGate) for a nominal fee - and the chance to gain to new clients.

The first release of Mozilla’s in-browser messaging/content aggregation client was—at best—a terribly executed extension backed by a good idea and a cool looking logo. 

If you want a little more control or flexibility with your blogging, using a desktop blogging client is a good choice. Not to stereotype, but those creative blogging types usually come fitted with their own Macs. They want a blogging tool that will let them be who they are without forcing them into the constraints of templates and standard front ends.

Yet, of all the hip, savvy software preloaded onto Macs, none really include a true blogging client (iWeb doesn't count).

If you crave a desktop blogging tool rather than a broswer-based interface to help you write your cool posts, CMSWire offers a few suggestions.

Many consider the Adobe Flash Platform to be the defacto standard for delivering interactive content, video and other media applications on the web today. But even with their market lead, Adobe continues to work hard to improve their Flash Platform. Which is why Adobe has announced the latest installment of their Flash Media Servers.

Do you believe that video games, mobile phone applications, websites and social networking sites can be designed to motivate and influence people? If you don't you are not paying attention and you need to get with the program. Consider getting educated by attending the 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology.

LiveMesh, released earlier this year by Microsoft and still in beta, picked up a major award at the 2008 Crunchies. Amidst a flurry of start-ups, new “2.0” services and power house competition, it was a little surprising to see LiveMesh win the Best Technology Innovation Crunchie. Is the award enough to sway skeptical bloggers’ opinions about the enterprise 2.0 synchronization and collaboration system?

Back in October, Yahoo made the bold choice of releasing more features, like an open strategy platform. Now it's starting 2009 by bringing Internet content to TV.

Like your KickApps social media solution? You may like it even more now that they have launched a new app studio to help develop highly customized Flash applications which can include the integration of third party applications.

Announcing the Google Blog Converters project! 

Tired of Blogger? Want to move to WordPress? Or vice versa? Problem solved! Google's new Open Source project enables you to easily move blog posts and comments from service to service. 

Properly managed, your website is the most cost-effective environment in which your customers can complete their tasks.

With security issues plaguing the end of 2008, the browser wars are back in full swing. This time Google steps up to the plate, opening the new year of battle with their Chrome 2.0 pre-beta trial.

Nowadays, if you don't have a search function on your site, you're pretty much living in the dark ages. In fact, if you don't have search functionality, why do you even have a website, man? What are you thinking?

Anyway. Just like the story goes with all things standard, it was only a matter of time before they started tinkering around with the way we dig through sites. Introducing Wibe7.tv, a visual search engine specifically for YouTube videos.

Now that Amazon Web Services is starting to gain traction in the hosted application market, AWS today announced a new tool that will allow Amazon Web Service users to keep tabs on their AWS services. The first release of the management console is focused on the Elastic Compute Cloud (or EC2), AWS' virtualized server computing resource.

We have seen tools such as Ylastic that allow for monitoring of AWS utilities such as Amazon EC2, S3, SQS and SimpleDB, but the newly released tool from Amazon Web Services is the first to originate from AWS itself.

When you finally feel like doing something more productive with your iPhone (in between playing the Ocarina, tossing virtual cows and simulating a glasses of beer, we're sure) then be sure to check out Soonr, a new application that allows you to sync files from your desktop to Soonr's online storage and then view them on your phone. Soonr can handle over 40 different file types and provides you with a whopping 500 megabytes of free online storage. 

There are a number of services out there to let people know where you are, what you are doing and what you like. TripSay, a new travel service still in beta, is a mesh of personal mapping applications and review applications and services. If you are looking for a social network to share your travel stories and opinions, TripSay may be the community for you.

Signs of economic unrest usually include a push to pander to a different or wider demographic. During 1992's economic recession, it was declared the Year of the Woman, a nod to the 34 women in the House and Senate. This year, we also celebrate a record-number of women in the 111th Congress. And again, it has been declared the Year of the Woman.

However, this time, a woman's representation expands to the Web, where a number of female-centric sites are kicking butt and taking names. Web sites targeted to women are growing in numbers, serving up content across a wide swath of subjects and age groups. From the looks of it, there seems to be something for everyone.

You say (exasperatedly): Another lifestreaming service? Really? We say: Yes, but this FriendFeed-powered mashup is generating a lot of commotion and feedback due to one teeny, tiny difference — it's a blogging service, too. 

Kaltura, the platform that brought open source to video and enabled groups to edit and collaborate with online video, has released a video module for the open source Drupal CMS.

Kaltura is a popular video platform used by blogging platforms like WordPress and now Drupal sites. The platform is similar to Viddler, which allows video users to annotate, remix and interact with online video media, all within a Flash-based editor.