Articles by Web 2.0 News Desk

Web 2.0 Company Jango Chooses Zrinity

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:45:00 EDT

Jango chose Zrinity's on-premise email delivery system for its email communications needs. The Jango research team was put together to further explore and conduct a due diligence on the remaining competitors. Mattias Stanghed, Chief Product Officer, Jango.com, was part of the research team at Jango which consisted of the Director of Information Technology, Chief Technology Officer and CEO.

Slingpage Selects Internap to Scale Social Browsing Platform

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:53:00 EDT

Internap Network Services Corporation announced its Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Managed Server solutions are helping to scale the rising demand of social Web collaboration and interactivity by powering Slingpage. Currently in open beta for the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers, Slingpage relies on Internap to deliver robust, scalable and reliable network and hosting services.

Xythos Updates Web 2.0 Services and Applications

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:02:00 EDT

Xythos Software announced upgrades to its Xythos on Demand online service and its Enterprise Document Management and Digital Locker software suites. The new software and service upgrades are currently available for evaluation and purchase.

eBay vs Amazon.com: eBay Price-Structure Overhaul Coming Today

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:00:00 EDT

Lorrie Norrington, president of eBay's global marketplaces business, has been telling BusinessWeek about a sea change in eBay's pricing structure. Calling it "the biggest, most fundamental change we have made," Norrington has told BW that eBay will today announce plans to reduce the upfront fees it charges to list sale items - source of up to 60% of its revenues till now - while increasing its final sales commission to make up for the reductions, which in some cases will be by as much as 75%.

Mint.com Launches Web Site Redesign

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:45:00 EDT

Mint.com launched a redesign of its Webby public website. The new design reflects the many new and enhanced features added to the free product this year, and adds educational “how to” guides on managing critical money management issues including: reducing credit card debt; saving for retirement; and paying off student loans.

Optaros Announces 2009 Social Ecommerce Planning Guide

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:45:00 EDT

Optaros introduced “The 2009 Social Ecommerce Planning Guide” that details 32 social ecommerce options to consider, with specific deployment examples and adoption rates, to assist retailers as they plan for 2009. Social ecommerce is a top agenda item for retailers in 2009, but there is sufficient lack of clarity about what exactly to do beyond ratings and reviews.

Schroepfer Quits Mozilla, Joins Facebook as a Director of Engineering

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:00:00 EDT

The latest director of engineering at Facebook, one of four, is Mike Schroepfer - from Mozilla. In his blog on the move, he wrote to his Mozilla colleagues: "This is the first time I’ve decided to leave something I really truly love - I will dearly miss getting a chance to work with all of you every day. Everyone that I’ve met from the community has, and will continue to be, a huge inspiration to me.”

Internet Security - DNS Flaw: "Every Network is at Risk," Says Dan Kaminsky

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:45:00 EDT

"We have anticipated these flaws in DNS for many years and we have basically engineered around them," Ken Silva, chief technology officer at Verisign, told a reporter as Dan Kaminsky, the man who discovered a loophole in the DNS system that allows web users to be redirected to fake sites even when they have typed in the correct URL, spoke out yesterday publicly for the first time about his discovery at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

Jacques Kerrest Joins Actividentity as CFO and COO

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:30:00 EDT

ActivIdentity announced that Jacques Kerrest has accepted the position of Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. In this capacity, Mr. Kerrest will oversee all of ActivIdentity’s financial and operational functions, including finance and accounting, financial planning and analysis, regulatory and risk management.

Zvents to Enable Local Activities and Promotions for MSN City Guides

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:30:00 EDT

Zvents announced that it will be collaborating with Microsoft to enhance the events experience on MSN City Guides. Through the collaboration, Zvents’ platform will bring new capabilities to MSN users looking for interesting things to do in their immediate vicinity, enabling local merchants to promote themselves to interested consumers.

SEC To Recognize Company Web Sites and Blogs As Channel of Distribution

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:45:00 EDT

The SEC has finally acknowledged that the nature of online information is increasingly interactive, and not static. Henceforth, according to a recommendation by its own Special Counsel in the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance, information appearing on company web sites "does not need to satisfy a printer-friendly standard or be in a format comparable to paper-based information, unless the Commission’s rules explicitly require it."

4D Releases 4D Web 2.0 Pack v11 Release 2 (11.2)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:15:00 EDT

4D announced the release of 4D Web 2.0 Pack v11 Release 2. The new version, a combination of two products - 4D AJAX Framework and 4D for Flex - brings a powerful set of tools, plug-ins, and components that allow 4D developers to harness the power of Web 2.0 technologies, and deliver live web and rich internet applications to browsers, desktops, and portable devices such as the iPhone.

Scrapboy Brings Facebook to Users' Desktops

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EDT

Scrapboy Digital Media Corporation announced the availability of Scrapboy, its Facebook desktop application, to users in North America. Scrapboy allows users to stay connected with their friends' Facebook activities on their desktops and store those activities securely on the users' computers, not a remote server.

InteleCom Launches Web 2.0 Viral Communication Tools Through Its Social Network

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:00:00 EDT

InteleCom announced that its new Web 2.0 Social Network toksee successfully launched 3 new viral communication tools or widgets for easy copy and placement on websites and blogs. All 3 immediately received top rankings from Widgetbox. The toksee chat or video messaging widget allows toksee Members to talk with and see their friends and family who also have the toksee online conference system.

SL Corporation Leverages Web 2.0

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:15:00 EDT

SL Corporation announced the availability of RTView version 5.0. This latest release allows users to mix and match a variety of Web 2.0 technologies - including AJAX and Flash - to deliver the most efficient real-time visibility applications for their needs, without requiring any technical knowledge of the Web 2.0 technologies.

myStaffingPro Applicant Tracking System Increases Web 2.0 Functionality

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:00:00 EDT

myStaffingPro has added new Web 2.0 functionality into their clients' career search screens. The free enhancement expands upon the applicant's current ability to sign up for a career RSS feed. The RSS feed enables prospective applicants to sign up and receive new job positings directly on their feed reader or Google homepage. This feature provides one-click access to review a newly opened position and apply without having to manually visit the client's career search screen.

Amazon's Kindle "Still Too Expensive for Mass Acceptance"

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:45:00 EDT

'It's certainly a device that has energized the digitization of books,' said Tim McCall, vice president of online sales at Penguin Group USA, referring to Amazon's Kindle electronic book device. McCall was quoted at the weekend in the San Francisco Chronicle Saturday. Steve Weinstein, an analyst with Pacific Crest in Portland, Oregon, told the Chronicle that Amazon has sold 40,000 units so far this year, could sell between 700,000 and 800,000 of the devices by the end of 2008, and may well hit $2.5 billion in sales by 2012.

AccuRev Leverages Web 2.0 Technology to Extend Process Management Reach Across the Organization

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:30:00 EDT

AccuRev announced a new AJAX-based Web Interface and a native integration with Microsoft Windows Explorer for its process-centric software change and configuration management (SCCM) solution. These new capabilities make it easy to integrate every knowledge worker into the development process and offer new ways to share information.

Mobile Web 2.0

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:45:00 EDT

The number of subscribers using mobile Internet services will rise from 577 million currently, to top 1.7bn by 2013, spurred by demand for collaborative applications known collectively as 'Web 2.0', and greater 2.5/3G penetration. Established mobile players face increasing competition from web-based brands and will have to adapt their commercial strategies to accommodate greater collaboration with other members of the value chain, if future revenue growth in the mobile Web 2.0 space is to be achieved.

Mobile Social Networking: European Survey

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:45:00 EDT

According to a recent survey of 500 social networkers across Europe, 32% of social networkers believe mobiles will be used to alert users to friends or family in the vicinity. 17% believe they will be used to take lessons and lectures. Dating is the least popular, with only 5% saying mobiles will be used for pre-date screening.

IBM Empowers Business Users with Customized Web 2.0 Software

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:45:00 EDT

IBM announced IBM Mashup Center will be hosted as a free trial on the Web with which non-technical business people can use to experiment and build customized mashups following the success of early corporate adopters Boeing Corporation and Carrefour Group. On schedule for mid-year delivery, the IBM Mashup Center allows business people to create situational applications, or mashups, by remixing information from anywhere to gain business insight and do their jobs smarter and more effectively. Using IBM's mashup technology, even non-technical users will be able to exploit standards and Web-based technology to gain access to myriad information, such as Web sites and feeds, spreadsheets, databases, applications, unstructured text from an email, video, audio and other information on the Web, and make sense of it all in minutes.

BigSpeed Computing Introduces BigSpeed Secure Socket Library 3.0

Sat, 24 May 2008 15:30:00 EDT

BigSpeed Computing announced the release of BigSpeed Secure Socket Library 3.0. BigSpeed Secure Socket Library is an ActiveX control that simplifies and accelerates the development of proprietary communication solutions over the Internet. It implements a flexible message-oriented protocol on top of a single TCP connection with on-the-fly data scrambling.

Web 2.0 Server and Push Technology Market Shares Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014

Wed, 21 May 2008 11:00:00 EDT

Research and Markets has announced the addition of 'Web 2.0 Server and Push Technology Market Shares Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014' to their offering. Advertising budgets have not been directly connected to the computer and technology before the Web 2.0 companies started attracting advertising dollars. The massive reach of Google has attracted to advertising dollars into the computer industry. Even thought the proportion of total advertising spending on Internet advertising is relatively low, the impact on the computer industry is large.

Etsy Powers Online Marketplace for Handmade Goods with Force10 Networks Switch/Routers

Wed, 21 May 2008 07:45:00 EDT

Force10 Networks announced that Etsy has deployed the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers and the S-Series family of access switches to increase the performance and reliability of its online marketplace for handmade arts and crafts. The scalability and resiliency of the Force10 solution enables Etsy to support millions of customer page views and transactions while providing the capability to seamlessly expand as more than 50,000 new buyers join the marketplace each month.

Ulitzer to Give Drupal 6.0 Its Biggest Scalability Challenge Yet

Mon, 19 May 2008 06:15:00 EDT

Ulitzer, Inc., which initially made the headlines with its 'job descriptions from the future,' announced today that it will launch its Ulitzer 'beta' site on July 4, 2008, with 5,500 authors and 600,000 original articles, published in more than 5,000 topic-specific online journals. Each journal offers up to 14 content-specific sections, written by the world's most respected authors, who are experts in their particular fields. All Ulitzer authors will get paid for their contributions.

Artech Launches GeneXus X to Expand Business Opportunities

Mon, 05 May 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Artech launched GeneXus X, the tenth GeneXus version, designed to expand the business opportunities of companies. GeneXus X incorporates new tools aimed at increasing the productivity of the work team and facilitate the rapid generation of corporate Web 2.0 applications.

Force10 Networks Supports IBM's iDataPlex Solution For Web 2.0

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Force10 Networks announced its enterprise switching technology will support IBM's iDataPlex. iDataPlex more than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single rack while using 40 percent less power and will be aided by the high density and robust functionality of Force10's Ethernet switches.

GoGrid Launches Facebook Servers for Developers

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EDT

GoGrid announced the availability of GoGrid's QuickStart Facebook servers, which allow businesses to build and deploy Facebook applications. The QuickStart Facebook Server automates and speeds up the Facebook application setup process, enabling Facebook developers to create, integrate, host and scale Facebook applications. By using a GoGrid QuickStart Facebook Server, both ASP.NET and Linux developers and systems administrators are now able to roll out Facebook-enabled servers in under 5 minutes, and when user adoption of their Facebook application increases, individual GoGrid QuickStart Facebook Servers can be scaled into load balanced server networks.

End-User Computing Powered by User Mashups Growing, Says Gartner

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:45:00 EDT

According to research firm Gartner, more than 30% of Global 2000 organizations will enter a new era of end-user computing via user-assembled, composite applications created with enterprise mashup environments by 2010. Against this background IBM has launched its IBM Mashup Center Product, powered by intuitive user mashup capabilities from Lotus Mashups, and information access and transformation capabilities provided IBM InfoSphere MashupHub.

The Latest World Wide Web Sub-Species: "Domainers"

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:30:00 EDT

Pizza.com sold recently for $2.6M, and vodka.com for $3M. Domain names are now a global business. The explosive growth in online advertising has seen Internet entrepreneurs earn millions of dollars by buying, selling, developing and monetizing web addresses, or domain names. There are now over 1,000 so-called 'domainers' (as domain owners refer to themselves), as many as 100 million registered domains, and a thriving aftermarket for domain names, with reported sales exceeding US$700M in 2007.

DreamFace Interactive Announced "Outsider" A New Version Of Their DreamFace Web 2.0 Open Source Framework

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:15:00 EDT

At the AJAXWorld 2008 East Conference, DreamFace Interactive announced the availability of 'Outsider', a major new version of their DreamFace Web 2.0 Framework, for creating Enterprise 2.0 Composite Applications and Mashups. DreamFace builds on the concepts of Web 2.0: Do IT Yourself, Personalization and Sharing and extends them to provide the next generation Web 2.0 experience, targeting the enterprise with a solution to the data integration problem through secure client side integration.

New IBM Web 2.0 Portal Software Breaks Down Barrier Between Enterprise and Web

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:45:00 EDT

IBM announced that its new portal software with Web 2.0 support will ship this quarter. Called IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1, it is designed to securely combine information from both the enterprise and the Web. A portal is a technology for providing external and internal Web sites which can deliver information, applications, and processes to provide a personalized experience to individuals. Web 2.0 technologies are increasingly being used for business by empowering people with content, social connections and other tools to solve problems.

GX Launches Release Candidate for Developing Web 2.0 Apps

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:15:00 EDT

Artech has launched the Release Candidate (RC) of the tenth version of GeneXus, which facilitates the expansion of business knowledge to Web 2.0 due to an intuitive development environment, greater collaboration among developers and extended ability to integrate various technologies. GeneXus is an intelligent tool for the automatic creation, development and maintenance of mission critical, multi-platform applications that can adapt to business changes or to technological advances.

IBM Explores Virtual World Creation and Collaboration with Linden Lab

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:45:00 EDT

“Combining IBM and Linden Lab’s solutions together has the potential to make custom-created environments a viable option for enterprises,” said IBM's VP of Digital Convergence, Colin Parris,today as IBM and Linden Lab announced the two companies are exploring the development of enterprise solutions for security-rich, custom virtual world creation and collaboration on the Second Life Grid platform.

Europe Gets Its Own Blog Search: Social Blog Search Engine Launched by Twingly

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:45:00 EDT

'We will have worldwide coverage but are concentrating on being number one in European blog search, both by controlling spam and working with all different languages,' said Martin Källström, CEO at Twingly, the European Internet start-up, as Twingly announced today that it is launching a spam-free blog search engine.

Evolution of Web 3.0

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:45:00 EDT

Web 3.0 is a different way of building applications and interacting on the web. The core model of web 3.0 states that entire World Wide Web will be seen as a single database. Many tools are being developed through which interactivity between different websites with different data can be enhanced. Prediction is that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as web applications which are pieced together.

AOL Snags Bebo for $850M in Cash

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:15:00 EDT

'What drew us to Bebo was its substantial and fast-growing worldwide user-base, its vision of a truly social web and the monetization opportunities,' said AOL chairman and CEO Randy Falco yesterday as he announced the acquisition by AOL of the social networking site Bebo.com for $850M in cash. 'This positions us to offer advertisers even greater reach and marketers significant insights into the desires and needs of consumers,' he continued.

YeahReader 2.3 Released

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:30:00 EDT

YeahReader is a free tool for reading news feeds in RSS, RDF and Atom formats, and podcasts. YeahReader provides all basic RSS reader functionality such as a convenient feed update system, proxy support and pop-up update notification. Besides this, YeahReader has such features as built-in blog client that will allow you to write messages to your LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress or Delicious blog, OPML support, ability to export data into HTML, CSV or JS format, multi-language support and others.

IBM Cracks Web 2.0 Security Concerns with "SMash"

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:00:00 EDT

IBM announced new technology to secure 'mashups,' web applications that pull information from multiple sources, such as Web sites, enterprise databases or emails, to create one unified view. Mashups are attractive for business use, as they allow non-technical users to gain insight on complex situations in minutes, but as with all Web-based initiatives, security has been a concern.

NeboWeb Launches New ReGen Biologics Site With Web 2.0 Content Management System

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:45:00 EDT

NeboWeb announced the launch of the new ReGen Biologics corporate website powered by NeboWeb's AJAX-based Content Management System. The CMS includes intuitive content management features for page creation. With integrated editing tools, file history views with rollback functionality, a newsroom/pressroom manager, multiple levels of users and permissions, and more, ReGen now has the ability to optimize content for search engines from within the CMS.