Web 2.0

In his keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly sets off the punditocracy by insisting that the "war of the Web" is heating up again. Did it ever cool off?

Orange UK subscribers can now upload pictures from their mobile phones to Twitter through MMS. That could deal a blow to third-party Twitter picture sites.

Online retail giant is helping associates use Twitter to sell more products. Will Twitter ever become more than a marketing tool?

Engine Yard's contest featuring Twitter as app server is interesting from marketing and technology angles. Maybe there is a way for Twitter to make money after all.

The teeny singer declares "Twitter should just be banned from this universe." Meanwhile, a Twitterer says she will kill her cat if Miley doesn't come back to Twitter.

Pandora pushes out an update that allows users to share their stations on Facebook and Twitter, as well as create and send Pandora stations as a gift.

In a surprise Web 2.0 Summit talk, the Google co-founder says he welcomes new search competition and is disappointed that Yahoo is backing off.

CEO Owen Van Natta announces an "artist dashboard," a music video library, and integration with iTunes at the Web 2.0 Summit conference.

Evan Williams takes the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit but didn't disclose anything new about its revenue plans or new features--just the revelation that he used to have a really bad haircut 15 years ago.

 CA - Aug 7, 2008 Check out BGpatterns, a site that's not unlike the Web 2.0 stripe generator in letting you put together really slick looking repeating backgrounds with a ...

Candidates primp for the world's first YouTube presidential debate, why clean water tech has venture capitalists enthralled, and digging for dinosaurs turns up a surprise.

On this week's show, we talk with two SPI Labs researchers about Web 2.0 sites and Ajax insecurity.