Web 2.0

By Rafe Needleman Ribbit CEO Ted Griggs doesn't seem to want Ribbit compared directly to Google Voice, since Ribbit is a telephony platform company with ambitions well beyond the consumer app. Ribbit's revenues to date have come from its platform business. But Ribbit Mobile will be compared with Google Vo...

By Richard MacManus Facebook Announces Roadmap for Developers Web Products Google Wave Use Cases: Education Google Launches Music Search: Partners with MySpace, Lala, Gracenote and Others Brizzly Adds Facebook - Aims to be The Blogger.com of Social Media

By Don Reisinger My site was ugly. There's no doubt about it. But for the time, it wasn't too bad. I used my little corner of the Web to review video games. At that point in my life, video games meant (almost) everything to me. Every spare moment I had was used up by the digital characters I controlled on the screen in f...

By Marshall Kirkpatrick Bing now has real-time access to the full fire hose of Twitter data, that's a really valuable flow of data. It's clear that Twitter can provide some real opportunity for Bing, but what can Bing do for Twitter? Would Twitter users be better off just using Twitter search?

By Alexander Korth The services sector has become the world's biggest business sector, accounting for 64% of the worldwide gross domestic product. The sector has pressure on it to make its services easier and more widely accessible, as well as to quickly adapt to ever faster changes in the market environme...

By Frederic Lardinois Learning from Dating Sites Other companies, of course, have faced similar questions before. Online dating services like eHarmony, for example, have worked on matching people for years. Dating services had to find ways to make users comfortable with the decisions they made; and while pe...

By Jolie O'Dell Overall, having the author, location, time, sentiment, and keywords automatically applied to user-generated data could lead to much richer streams with built-in filtering opportunities, both filtering content out as well as discovering new content and sources.

By Marshall Kirkpatrick On the far left we've got services that facilitate human-to-human communication, like Twitter itself, Instant Messaging and a new service called Olark (our review). Olark integrates with your existing instant messenger client to facilitate real-time chat with visitors to a particu...

By Jolie O'Dell A new offshoot of Social Media Club, the Social Media Club Education Connection (SMCEDU) is a Chris Heuer-led organization intended to promote social media in higher education curricula. Sponsor 1) Use Twitter to find your network. 3) Build your website. 4) Create content.

By Sarah Perez A Social Network to Complement the Others Instead of trying to establish a new userbase from scratch, Spiffbox integrates with the social networks Facebook and Twitter. They even have their own Facebook application so you can interact with other Spiffbox members while logged into Face...

By Don Reisinger According to Nomee, you can add profiles to your cards from more than 120 sites. They include Twitter, Facebook, Google News, Mahalo, StumbleUpon, Picasa, and more. The selection is quite nice. You can also add RSS feeds or links to your blogs.

By Don Reisinger The Alex Catalogue features some great historical content. Google Books features several books worth checking out. My top three 1. Google Books: With so many titles, Google Books is an obvious choice for the best service in this roundup.

By Bertalan Meskó 20 ways Surgeons should use Evernote (AppleQuack): And here is a screencast about how to use the new version. To sum it up, I think WA is for those who perfectly know what they want to find and want to save time and clicks. For other search queries, Google still is the best.”

By cdorobek The price… Yes, $9.5 million — potentially $18 million if the options are exercised — is a lot of money, but in the end, this isn’t just a Web site. This is an enormous effort and, as Smartronix said in their statement, it is a lot more then just creating a Web site. It is a huge job that has to be done e...

By dennisr61684 This morning, an article in Advertising Age landed in my e-mail no less than four times before 9am.  Mike Wolfsohn, the Executive Creative Director of Ignited wrote a strong blog post on his agency’s site outlining his frustration with the Zappo’s RFP process.  He describes how Ignited a...

By Marshall Breeding Library Thing for Libraries and ChiliFresh have become popular add-ins to help existing library catalogs and discovery interfaces add a measure of user-generated content. I anticipate that social networking components will increasingly become embedded into the inner fabric of lib...

By Ben Parr Reviews: Facebook, Shopseen, Twitter Tags: online shopping, shopping, social media, social shopping Best for: Delivering physical gifts without an address via social media Best for: Using social media to understand and shop fashion

By Soren Gordhamer Reviews: Facebook, Twitter Tags: brand, business, social media, Tony Hsieh, Zappos More social media brand resources from Mashable: Why Big Brands Struggle With Social Media Reviews: Facebook, Twitter Tags: brand, business, social media, Tony Hsieh, Zappos

By James Turner JH: Right. Right. Well, luckily, I mean the way we think about the different sort of anchors of the social networking world: Twitter and Facebook and MySpace and these guys, we embrace them as opposed to trying to compete with them. So one of the things you can do in Whrrl, which a lot of people do...

By Sarah Perez A new online community site called Lunch.com has just launched into private beta here at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The site, essentially a recommendation network, aims to bring the sort of casual conversations you would have with friends over lunch to the online arena. Using a propri...

By Vanessa Fox One problem is that the U.S. Census Bureau pages don't use zip codes to denote regions. They use tract numbers. Even if the pages were written in plain language searchers might use, search engine crawlers couldn't get past the JavaScript forms to access the pages.

By Richard MacManus Make Google Real-Time With Twitter Search Add-on Twitter VC Laughs at the Idea that Twitter Has No Business Model Enterprise Have Code, Will Travel - Sabre Chooses Open Source to Power its Business SEE MORE ENTERPRISE COVERAGE IN OUR ENTERPRISE CHANNEL

By Marshall Kirkpatrick Business On Twitter: Mintdotcom Flickr On Twitter: Picnik On Twitter: JinniMedia On Twitter: Pmog On Twitter: Gigotron On Twitter:Pikchur On Twitter: Soundcloud On Twitter: Felskia On Twitter: Revyver On Twitter: JQueryUI On Twitter: Skydeck On Twitter: Tarpipe

By Rick Turoczy Survs is currently in private beta. But, they have given ReadWriteWeb readers an access code to register for the service. Simply visit the registration page and enter the code F6W6HGOD. The offer is limited to the first 500 people, first come, first served. Discuss

By Eric Lease Morgan Finally, regarding change. It manifests itself along a continuum. At one end is evolution. Slow. Many false starts. Incremental. At the other end is revolution. Fast. Violent. Decisive. Institutions and their behaviors change slowly. Otherwise they wouldn’t be the same institutions. Librarian...

By Tim O'Reilly In short, Google is the ultimate network effects machine. "Harnessing collective intelligence" isn't a different idea from network effects, as Nick argues. It is in fact the science of network effects - understanding and applying the implications of networks.

By Hutch Carpenter I think Tim is onto something for the consumer and the small business markets. Cloud computing will give them access to information and an ecosystem that they currently do not enjoy. We see this all the time with Web 2.0 sites - eBay, Google Search, Facebook, etc.

By Kristen Nicole CEO’s 100 word description: We are entering in an era of Web 3.0. Web 2.0 rested on social networking, user-generated content, and communication platforms. Our revolutionary service adds 3D to all this, which lets users interact live on the web, congregate with friends, walk around the web...

We didn't need Google, or didn't think we did before Google came along. I don't recall sitting around complaining about Alta Vista and Excite and the other pre-Google search engines, which seemed to do a pretty good job in their day. But then Google came along and was clearly better -- enough...

By slim Hey you gotta check out Flock. It's maintained on Firefox core (check out the 2.0 beta - based on FF3 which comes out tomorrow) so it's great browser technology - but the added social networking functionality is inspired and quite awesome. I hereby declare Flock to be the first truly Web 2.0 bro...

By octavioislas In the world if IT security, it's a well known secret that end users in Windows processing environments put themselves at risk whenever they check their MySpace and Facebook pages, or shop for plane tickets, computers and other goods and services--all while at the workplace.

By Michelle Rafter Google Desktop - Interviewed somebody but can't remember where you stashed the notes? Can't find an email address any of the obvious places? Google Desktop can sniff it out. It's a search engine for the files stored on your computer. Download it for free.

By zbeauvais I haven't used a yahoo service since. No, seriously, I haven't used Yahoo. As soon as Konfabulator was purchased by Yahoo, I uninstalled it. I was all set to set up a Flickr account, when I found out it was Yahoo. (I might go back on that one, once I get a decent digital camera.)

By Andy Oram Even Wikipedia follows this rule in some cases. There are some subjects where everybody in the world holds an opinion and a huge number actually know some facts. But other subjects would never see articles unless a couple of the few dozen experts in the world took time to write it.

By carlaking We look at the O'Rielly book sales to see what's coming. JavaScript and Ruby are growing. JavaScript is growing because of Ajax. Web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, has to have an Ajax interface these days. So we are all required, unfortunately, to learn JavaScript. Ride the Web 2.0 wave

By Kelly Drake Tags: LITAforum2007, litaforum, lita2007 Edward M. Corrado, The College of New Jersey, http://www.tcnj.edu/~corrado/ (good website for those interested in open source, and library 2.0 technologies) Abstract: Corrado began with an introduction of web2.0 then walked participants thr...

By Beverly Stafford Transformations in the social networking world are rapid: Example: YouTube, started in 2005 , is now one of the most popular websites in the world. Old model: not participation or interconnectivity of library staff and users of library

By Laurel Papworth Technorati Tags: Ross Monaghan, Deakin University, Jeffrey Cook, Sydney University, Frank Connolly, Victorian State Services, Helen Benge, Kells the Lawyers, Damian Smith, Channel 10, Dwayne Thompson, Bell Canada, Ross Dawson, Catherine Fox, Boss Magazine, Tangler, The Podcas...

By Laurel Papworth Incidentally it doesn't go into the 12 or so business revenue models around user generated content, as it's really simply focussed on creating a social network within internal organisations. Technorati Tags: Jacques R. Bughin, The McKinsey Quarterly, statistics, reports, corporate...

I'm just going through the process of designing a database architecture for a Web 2.0 site we will be launching in a few months, and the first thing the database architect talked to me about at a review was "Don't worry, this design your about to see is going to rock, we have really normalized t...

I occasionally get requests to join private social networking sites, like LinkedIn or Facebook. I always politely decline. I understand the appeal of private social networking, and I mean no disrespect to the people who send invites. But it's just not for me.

By Phil Butler The Beta testing trail took us to an interesting new private beta site called Zude. This app is deploying cross domain drag-and-drop technology to allow users to create a unique Web presence. This development is like a 2015 version of Netvibes, or Pageflakes on steroids. 5g’s technology ha...

By Phil Butler Yumondo is a social networking community of the next order. The developers have termed their refinement of an established idea "urban stylesharing". I suppose this is as good a tag as any, for a great place to mirror our actual communities. The simplicity and familiarity of the tools and ser...

By Solomon Rothman Technorati Tags: web 3.0, search engine technology, social media evolution This is the first part in a 3 part series: Imagining Web 3.0 and Beyond Part 1 – The Mind Blowing Evolution of the Social Web Social Media’s Future Part 2 - The Beauty of Web 3.0

By Ed Lee So, to recap. Consumers now get their information in a new way that doesn’t fit into the traditional media landscape and are finding that information in new ways – whether it’s Google, Facebook shares, RSS feeds or social bookmarking sites.

Whilst I find personal interest in the individual time tracking functionality, Rescue Time also comes in a corporate flavor: RescueTime for Groups and Business. The tracking software can be rolled out across a business or team with data centralized for group tracking. It sounds a little...

By Josh Catone Perhaps the best exponent so far of Web 'wisdom of crowds' is Google, which organizes websites based on how they link to each other. Google sees links as votes for the relevance of a page. It is of course more complicated than that, but one can make the argument that Google works by utilizing th...

Yes, newspapers will morph into social networks 32% (61 votes)  No, leave the social networking to MySpace, Facebook, et al 15% (29 votes) No newspapers won't become social networks, but social software features are welcome 51% (97 votes)

Chris Wilson from Microsoft, who has worked on Internet Expolorer from version 3 up, was here to talk about the future of the web browser. He looked back at the days when Outlook Web Access was one of the most advanced web apps around and was using AJAX before it was even called AJAX. He talk...

I wrote recently about the trend of Web 2.0 reductionism that is helping us get to Web 2.0 fundamentals and helping us understand why it's such a game changer.  If you're not really sure about all of this, however, you have only to look at the example of MySpace.  MySpace is as pure a Web 2.0 play as y...