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Web 2.0 Expo Coverage Overwhelming demand from last year's San Francisco event prompted the launch of the Web 2.0 Expo brand worldwide, including locations in Berlin and Tokyo. In its second year, Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco spotlights innovators and leaders of the Web 2.0 universe, exploring how to navigate and leverage the power of the Web. Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 will take place April 22-25 at Moscone West. The conference home page is: here.
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Fans and producers of the hit TV show Lost are taking to the Internet, building a wiki, alternate reality games, communities, and a virtual island in Second Life to explore the world of the ABC show.
Trust and reputation systems are a great way to reduce spam, but Google avoids talk of an ongoing flood of malware-infected porn on Google Groups pages.
With its Yahoo Open Strategy, the company follows in the footsteps of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft by opening up its software to developers.
Mozilla chairman Mitchell Baker wants developers to bring the same features and functionality to handheld devices that they have to the PC.
Marc Andreessen, Tim O'Reilly, and other leaders muse on the future of the Web browser, social networking, widgets, and the Web 2.0 movement itself.
The company boasts more than 1,000 approved applications in a selection of categories ranging from music, politics and causes, quizzes and polls, and video.
The software is initially downloadable for BlackBerry phones and is scheduled to roll out on future Helio devices.
The company will use open standards like Atom, JSON, POX, RSS, HTTP, REST, and FeedSync to allow for the "it just works experience."
What remains to be seen is whether Windows users will occupy positions of privilege on Microsoft's evolving platform.
Microsoft MVPs say that they hope Microsoft can deliver on the big promises it's making with its software-plus-services development platform.
The iDataPlex system doubles the number of servers that can run in a vertical rack, while using 40% less power.
Ray Ozzie says Microsoft's software and services endeavor is a shift from its PC roots and key to sharing content and data over a number of devices.
Live Mesh will let users share data and content across a wide variety of devices using both Web-based and client software.
Internet companies saw a 7% decline in venture capital investment dollars from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to the MoneyTree Report.
The purchase will bolster Six Apart's new VIP program, which aims to help influential bloggers expand audiences and increase visibility.
Desktone plans to sell "desktops as a service" through service providers like Verizon Businesss and European and Asian carriers; IBM is a partner.
Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried build on Bree's popularity on MySpace and YouTube to launch Eqal.
Problems with accessing the online e-mail's IMAP feature fuel concerns about uptime and reliability as well as business adoption of software as a service.
Overbrook Entertainment, whose partners include actor/musician Will Smith, launched the site with more than 10,000 free high-def music videos from EMI, Sony BMG, and others.
The 4.3 beta has improved photo-realistic renderings and includes a new sunlight button to observe how light changes over time and at different times of day.
The feature lets Facebook users create blog posts and post them through any one of 10 blogging services, including Blogger, Movable Type, TypePad, Twitter, Vox, and WordPress.
Google Street View can scope out real estate, travel destinations, and even save you from your next parking ticket -- all from your desktop, laptop, or smartphone browser.
The beta version of its Livecontacts application tracks contacts' movement geographically on mobile handsets.
The two companies also compete with Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight in the online-offline rich Internet app runtime marketplace.
The software tools help the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sift through millions of pornographic images and videos from the Web to find child sex predators.
By crawling using HTML forms (and abiding by robots.txt), Google claims it leads search engine users to documents that otherwise would not be easily found -- but privacy concerns remain.
The outage appeared to be the first for the service, which Google acquired in June of 2007.
The service could pose a formidable challenge to Microsoft's efforts to establish itself in the SMB applications market, which remains widely fragmented.
Businesses need to transform to adopt Web 2.0. But it isn't easy, as Dell's experience -- trying to address rotten customer service with Web 2.0 -- shows.
Some of the companies adopting social networking, RSS, blogs, wikis, mashups, podcasting, and widgets will be presenting at the Web 2.0 Expo show this week.
Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008, running April 22 through April 25, kicks off as Yahoo, Microsoft, and dozens of startups jockey for position in this hotly contested arena.
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