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Oct 24, 2007 12:54 AM CDT

Lonely at the Top for Yahoo CEO Yang

Company co-founder talks about the struggle to stay relevant

(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...

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

Oct 19, 2007 3:44 PM CDT

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

Genetic scans just need more processing power, says famed geneticist

(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...

Facebook Founder's No to IPO

Oct 18, 2007 12:21 AM CDT

Facebook Founder's No to IPO

Zuckerberg says going public is years away

(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...

Schools Cater to Tech-Enamored Students

Jul 31, 2007 6:33 PM CDT

Schools Cater to Tech-Enamored Students

New teaching, learning styles may spell an end to lectures

(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...

Is It a Top?

Jun 26, 2007 7:01 AM CDT

Is It a Top?

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

(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...

Users Revolt After Digg
Censors DVD Hackers

May 2, 2007 9:06 AM CDT

Users Revolt After Digg Censors DVD Hackers

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

(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...

Bloggers Urge More Civility

Apr 9, 2007 7:53 AM CDT

Bloggers Urge More Civility

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

(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...

The Fall,
And Rise, Of Television

Apr 7, 2007 11:11 AM CDT

The Fall, And Rise, Of Television

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

(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...

Google Stares Down Viacom, Copyright

Apr 2, 2007 7:51 AM CDT

Google Stares Down Viacom, Copyright

How do the boys keep YouTube from turning into Napster?

(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...