Web 2.0

By Eliot Van Buskirk Twitter Music Search Services Because Twitter started as a way for people to alert other people about what they're doing, more worthwhile tools exist for broadcasting music than for finding music on Twitter. That said, we did track down a few good services that let you scour the network fo...

By John C Abell PARIS — Google has put a new spin on the CAPTCHA, a way of helping Web sites distinguish between human visitors and bots: It wants people to tell it which way is up in a series of randomly rotated images, a task that humans find easy and computers difficult.

By Eliot Van Buskirk We do this by continuously sampling the noise from news, blogs and social media," said co-founder Stephen Phillips, lead programmer for Wotnews. "We monitor the mainstream press, blogs, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Last.fm, iLike, bit torrent, Limewire, and more."

By Chris Snyder What I Learned From Friendster: Jonathan Abrams' New StartupNew FriendFeed A Mashup of Twitter/Facebook/GChat Socializr, the Evite competitor from Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, launched a new service in public Beta Wednesday called Socializr Event Connect that aggregate...

By Brian X. Chen Rose often tweets about new teas he's trying out to his nearly 400,000 Twitter followers and even created a separate Twitter account — @goodtea — devoted to tea. He also started a Facebook page about the ancient beverage, where he posts videos and information. To top it off, Rose links to Sam...

By Chris Snyder OneRiot’s Twitter-based service is very similar to TweetNews, which was built by Yahoo BOSS engineer Vik Singh as a pet project to rank Yahoo News search results based on Twitter chatter.  Our mission is to organize the real-time web," says Peggs. "Twitter is obviously a large part of the r...

By Eliot Van Buskirk The launch of MySpace Music six months ago was supposed to herald a new era, with the four major labels at long last embracing social media as a disruptive force of good and developing a business model which didn't repulse their customers. Ouch.

By Chris Snyder The GSA ,which led the effort for 12 agencies over the past 9 months, has finally worked out arrangements with Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and blip.tv, saying these are "representative of high volume and innovation on the Web." It has plans on expanding this list further, and in discussions now...

By Scott Gilbertson Ubiquity Add-on for Firefox Gets an Update, New Interface …Make the Web Do Your Bidding With Firefox s New Ubiquity UI … Mozilla has released another update to its Ubiquity plug-in for Firefox. Ubiquity is designed to offer an easy way to manipulate web services by typing simple, plain lan...

By Scott Gilbertson Both iPhoto and iWeb now include simple one-click-to-share buttons for publishing to Facebook and, in the case of iPhoto, Flickr.com as well. Previously Apple has left the task of integrating its iLife apps with web services to third-party software makers, but now it seems the company is...

By Michael Calore In keeping with the theme of the Yahoo Open Strategy, we are evaluating approaches for opening up parts of the Yahoo Video Platform for use by publishers and developers. What other Yahoo properties will take advantage of this new video platform? News? Movie trailers? TV.yahoo.com?

By Michael Calore Software maker Flock has released an OpenID management add-on for its social web browser. The add-on -- which works only on Flock 2.0 and not on Firefox 3, the browser upon which Flock is based -- was co-developed with MySpace and identity management company Vidoop. The video: