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.

Twitter is acquiring social news aggregation service Summify. Summify is thrilled at the news. Unfortunately, Summify users are not. 

Google fell under new management this year, and the shake up resulted in some heavy changes. A new idea of what legitimate content should look like, a social network that the company refuses to call a social network, and the loss of an experimental playground are just a few. In case you missed a beat, here's a look back at the highlights.  

IBM and Eurotech submitted a proposal to the Eclipse Foundation open source community for a device connectivity solution that would connect smart objects with physical world systems.

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.

We technologists, business executives and marketers are fans of a well-crafted buzzword that means nothing but embodies everything. Phrases like "the cloud," "web service" and "web 2.0" escape easily through our lips and effortlessly from our keyboards to fill pages of blogs and hours of conferences. Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be another term to stir those feelings, enterprise 2.0 is growing up and taking center stage. 

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.

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

The University of Phoenix and Institute for the Future recently combined forces in order to produce the Future Work Skills 2020 report, examining what exactly propel's change and which skills we'll have to fine tune if we want to keep up. 

Backbase (news, site), provider of the portal products for the financial services industry, announced the release of Backbase Forms 5.0, which completes the company’s Bank 2.0 Portal Suite. Backbase Forms allows non-technical users to update forms and define business rules with limited involvement from technology teams.

Successful community engagement takes more than just a worthy cause. It helps to have a useful, collaborative platform from which to organize events, facilitate fundraising and track supporters’ behavior effectively. Launched in April, NationBuilder aims to be a new community toolkit that connects community organizers with supporters so that non-profits, political campaigns and other community organizations can spend more time engaging, building and making a difference.

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.

Social network behemoth Facebook (news, site) is receiving criticism yet again for acting first and explaining later -- this time with developers on its application framework. Facebook implemented a “new enforcement system” that resulted in several popular applications being disabled.