Archive for February, 2008

Yahoo and Microsoft continue in their tug of war for control. Yahoo wants to remain independent in spite of its financial woes. Microsoft wants a better Internet and search presence. Companies like Google, eager to beat search rivals off the playing field, continue to circle, looking for a way into the fight. Who will win? [...]

During 2007, the former college student-limited social network known as Facebook experienced its most successful year to date in terms of growth and traffic. All eyes were on Facebook for the now widely-mimicked developer API, as well as the advertising platform designed to help monetize its surging crop of applications. Facebook was even supposedly valued [...]

With News Corp. and NBC offering up such oldies as The A-Team, Kojak, Partridge Family, and S.W.A.T. (among many others) to their online audience at Hulu and other NBC sites, it only seems logical that other television networks would follow suit in offering former fan favorite shows for viewing via the internet. Today, CBS has [...]

Tossing its hat into the ring of political web 2.0 applications and social networks, If I'm President (in alpha mode) wants you to share your political views. As part of my ongoing series on Politics and Web 2.0, I decided to check it out. Earlier in the series I look at sites like 20DC, VocalNation, [...]

Allan Stern over at Center Networks is much more excited about the Microsoft conference call today than I am. A quick scan of the press release will tell you all you need to know, and that it's a big fluffy piece of PR being floated out there. I grabbed a buzzword bingo card online and [...]

Web 2.0 is a term that means different things to different people, but there are some common characteristics that seem to characterize Web 2.0: alpha or beta status. A certain look and feel to sites. Social aspects to the application (for the most part). Building something that should enhance something else (Facebook apps, browser plug-ins). [...]

Every so often, one of these “not an app, but a feature” products surprises me. SurfCanyon is one of those feature products. Originally designed as a web site, they have relaunched as a browser plug-in designed to make your search results better. SurfCanyon runs on top of Google, Yahoo, and Live searches (not Ask.com, though, [...]

With so many big names jumping on the OpenID band wagon and lending the identity application credibility, it's no wonder third party applications are already springing up to take advantage of the surge. Some of these applications are existing ones that are simple adding features from the OpenID API. Some of them capitalize on ideas [...]

It's amazing anyone has the courage to even venture online these days. From web sites to virtual worlds, we are being told to fear those tubes at every turn. Google went on the terror offensive this past weekend with the fearmongering, releasing a report that told us it isn't just porn sites that may want [...]