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Politics Battles Tech for Soul
of Digg

Election pulls big traffic —and big discontent among nerderati

May 13, 08 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - With election season in full swing, the political junkies have come for Digg.com, making Hillary, Barack, et. al. fixtures on the social news site. That’s been great for traffic, but it’s also angered the tech nerd early adopters who made Digg a success, CNET reports. At a... More »

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social networking • politics • Web 2.0 • Digg • news

Web 2.0 Buying Will Hit $4.6B by 2013: Analyst

IBM, Microsoft likely to squeeze out smaller players in wikis, blogs

Apr 22, 08 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Spending on Web 2.0 technologies is ready to explode, according to a new report from Forrester Research. The market will reach $4.6 billion by 2013, the report predicts, as the technology starts to saturate the business world. To get there, it’ll have to jump an average of... More »

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Internet • Web 2.0 • Microsoft Office • enterprise software • wikis • blogs • RSS • podcasting

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 'Dilbert' Goes 2.0 

Beloved strip lets fans run the show on the web, with maybe a little author input

Apr 18, 08 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Is it another triumph of Web 2.0, or a concession to the rampantly collaborative tone of the Internet these days? Either way, "Dilbert" has gone interactive, the New York Times reports. On the popular comic’s website, fans can now substitute their own pithy retorts for text bubbles... More »

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Internet • Web 2.0 • comics • Dilbert • Scott Adams • interactive

 Can New
 CEO Keep
 eBay on Top? 

Company faces slowing growth, competition

Mar 31, 08 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - As John Donahoe takes over from Meg Whitman as CEO of eBay today, he inherits a grande dame where Whitman oversaw the rise of an e-commerce belle. Still dominant in online auctions, the company has nonetheless faced slowing growth and stiffening competition. But analysts think Donahoe, the former eBay Marketplace... More »

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Internet • Web 2.0 • eBay • online auction • auction • Meg Whitman • John Donahoe • e-commerce • Amazon.com

Previewing What's Next
in Social Networks

NY meeting introduces new services to new media leaders

Feb 29, 08 3:57 PM CST
(Newser) - What’s next for online social networking? A heavy dose of geography, writes David Kirkpatrick in Fortune’s Fast Forward. At a real-life meeting for 100 new-media notables in New York, one hot topic was adding location information to user-driven sites so that “not only will you know what... More »

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social networking • Internet • New York City • Web 2.0 • Twittervision • Google Earth • Facebook • Flickr • Google Maps • new media • Jeff Pulver • Twitter

Slashdot Doesn't Digg Ron Paul

Tech blog founder says social news sites too easily manipulated

Jan 30, 08 12:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Social news sites like Digg don’t work, says Slashdot founder Rob Malda, and Ron Paul is Exhibit A. “A lot of these community news sites are all about Ron Paul,” Malda told the New York Times. “What that is really demonstrating is that you are... More »

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Web 2.0 • Digg • online news • Ron Paul • Slashdot

OPINION

Ailing Yahoo! Can't Keep Up With the Times

Outmoded, mismanaged company is poised for implosion

Jan 25, 08 2:25 PM CST
(Newser) - After miraculously withstanding the dot-com crash, Yahoo is again poised to fall face first off a virtual cliff, with its plummeting stock hardly masked by national economic disrepair. But despite hemorrhaging users to Google, the company is still a huge presence on the Web, with 3 billion daily hits. So... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Web 2.0 • recession • tech stocks • stock price

The Latest in Outsourcing: Crowdsourcing

Businesses using competitions for manpower

Dec 6, 07 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - If you want something done right, have a bunch of strangers do it for you. That’s the ethos behind “crowdsourcing,” a trend that has companies turning to the masses for a host of jobs normally done in-house – from writing code to designing products to conducting market... More »

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Internet • Web 2.0 • outsourcing • research and development

Schools Ban Wikipedia

District officials not bullish on popular online encyclopedia

Nov 27, 07 5:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Wikipedia's so quick and easy—too easy, ruled a New Jersey school district, the latest of many to ban use of the popular online encyclopedia by its students and block it on school computers, fearing potentially erroneous information from the communally edited site will pollute minds and papers. “Kids... More »

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Wikipedia • Web 2.0

Investor Avoids 'Web 2.0' to Avoid Bust?

VC firm Kleiner looking for 'more fundamental innovations'

Nov 5, 07 2:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Today's launch of Web 2.0 Expo Berlin notwithstanding, there are hints that "second-generation" Web companies are losing appeal in the venture capital community -- or at least with prestigious Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Digital Daily cites a KPCB partner who recently told a... More »

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Internet • Silicon Valley • Web 2.0 • venture capital • Internet startups

Apple Debuts User-Generated Ad

Big-time remake of Nick Haley's unofficial YouTube spot highlights trend in user-generated content

Oct 26, 07 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apple's next iPod Touch commercial was born in the mind not of some slick ad exec but of a British university student with a little free time. Eighteen-year-old Apple devotee Nick Haley married kickin' music with animations of the Touch's features last month and posted the result on YouTube—where... More »

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Web 2.0 • Apple • iPod Touch • Nick Haley

Lonely at the Top for Yahoo CEO Yang

Company co-founder talks about the struggle to stay relevant

Oct 24, 07 12:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Being the CEO of Yahoo is no cakewalk, according to co-founder Jerry Yang, speaking yesterday at a conference in California, News.com reports. "It is a lonely job in the sense that you have to make some of the tough calls," Yang said of the job he finally... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Web 2.0 • Jerry Yang • search engine marketing • search engine

Google Your DNA? It's Not a Far Off Fantasy

Genetic scans just need more processing power, says famed geneticist

Oct 19, 07 3:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Eventually, you may be able to Google the DNA of a prospective date to see if they've got any undesirable genes, geneticist Craig Venter said yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, cNet reports. The cost of a complete DNA sequence, once $70 million is now about... More »

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Google • Web 2.0 • DNA • Craig Venter

Facebook Founder's No to IPO

Zuckerberg says going public is years away

Oct 18, 07 12:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has quashed speculation over a possible initial public offering. Speaking to an overspill audience at the Web 2.0 conference, held in a ballroom of the ornate Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Zuckerberg said Facebook, the popular internet social network, would not be selling shares on... More »

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Web 2.0 • Facebook • Mark Zuckerberg • IPO

Schools Cater to Tech-Enamored Students

New teaching, learning styles may spell
an end to lectures

Jul 31, 07 6:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - An increasing number of colleges and universities are using new Web applications to engage a generation of students eager to collaborate—and strut their stuff—on the Internet. Blogs, wikis, and other collaborative tools are being used as more than just empty Web 2.0 buzzwords, CNET reports; they allow... More »

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education • technology • Internet • Web 2.0 • school • college • university • web • Dartmouth • student • professor • mathematics • Texas A&M

Is It a Top?

Domain name SEO.com sells for $5 million,
raising the specter of
a virtual real estate bubble

Jun 26, 07 7:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - WashingtonVC has purchased the domain name SEO.com (as in "search engine marketing") for $5 million for its portfolio company Web Targeted.  With a large percentage of Web traffic now coming from search engines, optimizing Web sites for visibility to them has become one of the hottest... More »

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Web 2.0 • domain names • search engine marketing • web traffic

Users Revolt After Digg
Censors DVD Hackers

User-generated site pulls code,
loses cred, reverses course

May 2, 07 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Web 2.0 blogs are rushing to declare Digg dead, after a night in which the site's main page was saturated with its own obituaries. The web's most popular user-generated news site prompted a mutiny by removing posts revealing how to crack encrypted DVDs and HDs. Digg said the illegal... More »

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Internet • Web 2.0 • Digg • news • online news • Kevin Rose • blog

Bloggers Urge More Civility

Epidemic of nastiness has techies mulling
a Web 2.0 code of conduct

Apr 9, 07 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prominent techies are calling for a code of conduct for the Web 2.0 blogosphere.  The group, which includes Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, urges that bloggers  purge their sites of anonymous comments and delete libelous or menacing ones. “If it’s a carefully constructed set of principles, it... More »

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blogosphere • Wikipedia • Web 2.0 • free speech • Jimmy Wales • Tim O'Reilly • blog

The Fall,
And Rise, Of Television

New outlets, "small TV" programming shifting the idiot-box paradigm

Apr 7, 07 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - TV executives are biting their nails over the future of their medium, even as conventional indicators suggest it's never been stronger. Wired reports that sitcoms and dramas are winning, not losing, audiences, but through financially amorphous pipelines like DVDs, iTunes downloads and even homemade web-casts. "Traditional TV won't be... More »

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entertainment • television • media • CBS • Web 2.0 • undefined

Google Stares Down Viacom, Copyright

How do the boys keep YouTube from turning into  Napster?

Apr 2, 07 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Viacom incubating "the biggest copyright lawsuit in history" against YouTube, the video-sharing site is beginning to smell a bit like Napster. Which leads Clive Thompson to ponder in New York why the Google boys decided to acquire YouTube—and its looming crisis—last year. And why, once they... More »

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media • Google • Internet • Viacom • YouTube • Web 2.0 • intellectual property • copyright • Sumner Redstone

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