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Web 2.0 Watch

"Web 2.0" ...What the heck does that mean?

Web 2.0 startups keep coming - this thread is here to chronicle their evolution and the Web 2.0 hype in the changing landscape of the Internet.

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June 2009
- For Latest on Iran Unrest, Check Online First
  
  Washington Post | Jun 15, 09 5:31 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Traditional media are having a tough time covering the Iranian election fallout, but fear not: Web 2.0 is up to the task. The Washington Post runs down the best destinations for those hoping to stay on top of the situation: PicFog.com: Current, unedited photos containing "a level of gore or manipulation not found on traditional news sites." More »
- Google Set to Add Microblog Search
  
  Ars Technica | Jun 15, 09 2:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Evidence suggests that Google will soon introduce a “MicroBlogsearch” feature, indexing and searching Twitter and its imitators, Ars Technica reports. Google-watchers noticed a reference to the new feature hidden in Google’s translation service. Unlike Twitter’s own search, which seeks out any and all tweets containing the search terms and displays them chronologically, Google will seek to rank the links by relevance. More »
- Army Lifts Ban on Social Media
  
  Wired | Jun 11, 09 2:21 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The US Army has lifted a years-long ban on online social networks, commanding bases to let soldiers access sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr so they can “tell the Army story,” Wired reports. The change doesn’t apply to all overseas bases or other armed forces, and it leaves MySpace, YouTube, and Pandora blocked. But it marks a shift in the military’s thinking towards the web tools. More »
- 'Web 2.0' is English's Millionth Word
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jun 10, 09 3:48 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The millionth word to enter the English lexicon is pure geek-speak, the Telegraph reports: Web 2.0 was entered this morning by Global Language Monitor, which recognizes words once they’ve appeared 25,000 times in the media, blogs, and social websites. The linguistic cataloger estimates that a new word is generated every 98 minutes. More »
- Facebook Wants Your Friendship and Your Money
  
  Financial Times (UK) | Jun 2, 09 3:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Facebook is breaking an age-old business rule: Never do business with friends. In a bid to achieve profitability, the social-networking site is testing an internal payments system that allows its 300 million users to purchase credits redeemable for virtual goods, from Facebook itself or third-party applications. “Over time, this will be very significant,” one analyst tells the Financial Times . More »
- Twitter and Facebook Come to Xbox 360
  
  Ars Technica | Jun 1, 09 4:20 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In a bid to make its Xbox 360 more interactive, Microsoft is bringing Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm, a lightning-speed video service, and—brace yourself—a motion-sensing camera that knows who you are just by reading your face to the console, Ars Technica reports. The company even brought in Steven Spielberg to demonstrate the camera today at a conference in Los Angeles. More »
May 2009
- Wikipedia Bars Edits From Scientology Addresses
  
  The Register | May 29, 09 10:24 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In an unusually broad push against posting biased content, Wikipedia’s “supreme court” has banned edits from IP addresses associated with Scientology headquarters and its affiliates, the Register reports. The Wikipedia Arbitration Committee voted 10-0 for the ban. Individual “Wikifiddlers” have had their privileges revoked in the past, but the move is the site’s first crackdown on a well-known group for a self-promotional breach. More »
- Twitter 'Twollars' Raise Cash for Charity
  
  Guardian (UK) | May 27, 09 12:48 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Twitter has unveiled an online currency of sorts, the “twollar,” aimed at boosting charitable giving, the Guardian reports. Twitter users start out with 50 twollars (the equivalent of $5), which they can award to other users for astute posts and the like. Twollars are currency, but only charities can sell or redeem them. So if you run out of twollars, the only way to get more is by giving. The idea has already raised $1,500 for Charity Water. More »
- Introducing Web 3.0
  
  All Things Digital | May 27, 09 11:54 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Web 2.0’s a thing of the past, write Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher for All Things D. "Something major is happening at the intersection of tech and media, and we think it deserves its own new hyped-up name,” they announce. Web 3.0 is the era of “the thin client, running clean, simple software, against cloud-based data and services”—and the leaders of the revolution are the iPhone and iPod Touch. More »
- Pope Benedict Wants to Meet You on Facebook
  
  Reuters | May 22, 09 1:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Pope Benedict probably isn’t at the computer himself, but the Vatican is making a major push to lure young believers online, Reuters reports. It’s launched www.pope2you.net, which offers Web 2.0 applications like “The pope meets you on Facebook,” and another that downloads the pope’s speeches for iPhones and iPods. “We recognize that a church that does not communicate ceases to be a church,” said one official. More »
- Keyboard Cat: Web's Swine Flu
  
  Butter Team | May 5, 09 3:54 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - While swine flu sweeps the world, a YouTube meme is sweeping the Web with nearly equal virulence, Butter Team blogger Z reports: Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat. Amateur video artists splice fail-type situations—guy falling down escalator, Miss South Carolina—with a clip of a keyboard-playing cat, and the kitty music and visuals fade in over the embarrassing scene, as if playing it off stage. More »
April 2009
- Vineyard Offers $10K/Month to Drink, Tweet About Wine
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Apr 29, 09 1:16 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A California winery has a tempting offer for tech-savvy oenophiles, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The Murphy-Goode Winery will set up the right candidate with a $10,000-a-month job at its Sonoma County HQ blogging and Twittering about, well, wine. The 6-month gig includes room and board; the 2-month hiring process is expected to draw 10,000 applicants and is already yielding good PR. More »
- Facebook's Goal: 'Blowing Up the Browser'
  
  Time | Apr 28, 09 4:48 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Facebook has opened its user “feeds” to widget developers, paving the way to a new existence in the decentralized, cross-platform “AfterWeb,” Josh Quittner writes in Time . Though the move is seen by some as a counter to rival Twitter, which can already be accessed in myriad ways, Quittner sees a more radical rationale. Facebook is “blowing up the browser,” he writes. More »
- Brown Blocks Comments on His YouTube Channel
  
  Times (UK) | Apr 28, 09 8:45 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The British government has tried to harness the power of the Internet, but for Gordon Brown, the Web’s been prickly: a video of him picking his nose, for example, has been viewed far more often than recent policy address. Now the prime minister’s team has disabled comments on its YouTube portal, saying that moderating them would be a mammoth task, the Times of London reports. More »
- Cardinal to Catholics: Tweet Your Prayers
  
  Times (UK) | Apr 27, 09 3:41 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Ireland’s Catholic leader is urging the faithful to engage social networking to spread the word of God, the Times reports. “Make someone the gift of a prayer through text, Twitter, or e-mail every day,” Cardinal Sean Brady said. “Such a sea of prayer is sure to strengthen our sense of solidarity with one another and remind those who receive them that others really do care.” More »
- Twitter Amplifies Swine Flu Fear
  
  InfoWorld | Apr 27, 09 2:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Twitter and other social networks are creating a swine-flu panic out of a molehill with their instantaneous updates, Robert X. Cringely writes for InfoWorld. The quick flow of less-than-dependable information means “people with head colds decide they're really dying from a porcine-borne bug and flood emergency rooms.” And such a strain of internet-enabled paranoia could be a boon for cyberterrorists. More »
- Fear of Feds Censors Corporate Tweets
  
  Wall Street Journal | Apr 27, 09 9:02 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - More big firms are using blogs and Twitter to keep the world up-to-date on company matters—but personal styles are colliding with federal corporate-communications rules, the Wall Street Journal reports. Firms like eBay are now adding disclaimers to once-casual tweets, leaving some readers cold. “There’s much more of a microscope on what I’m doing now,” says an eBay tweeter. More »
- First Twitter Arrest: FBI Nabs Man Posting Threats
  
  Wired | Apr 25, 09 11:47 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Another Twitter first: An Oklahoma City man has been arrested by the FBI after tweeting threats of a bloody rampage against the government at last week’s "tea party” in that city, Wired reports. “START THE KILLING NOW! I am willing to be the FIRST DEATH!” wrote Daniel Knight Hayden. Agents arrested Hayden the day of the event and charged him with making interstate threats. He's in a halfway house pending trial. More »
- New Software Judges Blog Credibility
  
  Ars Technica | Apr 22, 09 3:54 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Software that would automatically rate the credibility of blogs on a scale from highly credible to “little credible” is in the works in Austria, Ars Technica reports. The program analyzes the distribution of words in successive blog posts and also compares topics against stories covered in the mainstream media to judge timeliness and accuracy. The developers say they hope it will work without any human input. More »
- Pirate Bay Ruling Invigorates Pirates
  
  Christian Science Monitor | Apr 22, 09 12:14 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Last week’s guilty verdict against the Swedes behind the Pirate Bay filesharing site not only hasn’t shuttered the operation—it’s boosted support for the cause of free information, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The affiliated Pirate Party, which advocates for copyright reform, has doubled its membership just since the verdict came down, becoming the fourth-largest party in Sweden. It’s our “ticket to the European Parliament,” the group’s leader said. More »

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer raises his arm as he talks about companies who want to talk to Microsoft, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer raises his arm as he talks about companies who want to talk to Microsoft, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (AP Photo)

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Web 2.0 is a trend in World Wide Web technology, and web design, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users. The term became notable after...

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