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Why your business should embrace Web 2.0
Insight Web 2.0 technologies can be a boon to businesses--find out how in this excerpt from Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom by Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Internet advertising, Wiki, Tool, Enterprise 2.0, Harvard Business Review, Alvin Toffler, social networking, vision
Dancing with Jimmy Wales in 'Second Life'
Insight Wikipedia's founder visits CNET's virtual theater to talk about the free, open encyclopedia, his for-profit company and more.
Getting serious about games
News Web 2.0 and big businesses to contribute to the phenomenal growth of the video games industry.
Tags: Web 2.0, Gamer, Female, Male
Facebook Connect branches out
News Aiming to make its universal-log-in product more ubiquitous, company announces a three-step integration wizard and a translation tool to automatically convert a site to a Facebook user's native language.
Tags: Web 2.0, entrepreneur, network, U.S., Hitwise, social Web, crowdsourcing, Connect Wizard, Social Networking, Web 2.0
Salesforce.com adds Twitter to cloud services
News Company's Service Cloud 2 option brings Twitter-based customer service options to its clients now and will bring knowledge bases and forums later.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Web services, Cloud computing, Marc Benioff, InStranet Inc., Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, business software company, Facebook, knowledge
Salesforce jumps on the Twitter-for-CRM bandwagon
News The software-as-a-service company has added Twitter to the lineup of social media sites that clients can keep tabs on using its Service Cloud product.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web services, Web 2.0, Twitter, Blogger, CRM, Cloud computing, Facebook, customer service, senior vice president
Google Docs gets collaborative-drawing feature
News It's not going to dethrone Adobe Illustrator, but adding drawing tools to Google's online documents is useful. Included are tools for altering colors, shapes, and object order.
Tags: Cloud computing, Google Inc., Web Browser, Tool, Vector Markup Language, SVG, Cloud computing, blog, Google Docs, word-processing
Facebook looks to India
News A little late to the subcontinent, Facebook is now pushing hard to win over Indians by adding Hindi and five other local languages.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Mobile, India, Orkut.com, Indonesia, social networking, Facebook, hiring
Asia winning race to patent ideas in US?
News The world’s most innovative companies go to great lengths to guard their trade secrets, but do companies with the most patents have the best ideas?
Tags: Innovation, Patents, Hewlett-Packard Co., Patent, Canon Inc., Infineon Technologies AG, Japanese company, Japan, IFI Patent Intelligence, Korea
'Second Life' after the backlash
News Participants in this weekend's user conference in Chicago are unfazed by negative press. They just want to go back to their virtual world tinkering.
Tags: Web 2.0, Female, Male, Gamer
MySpace's new chic clique
News The social-networking site's new fashion community might benefit big, established brands and fledgling designers alike.
Tags: Web 2.0
Accenture: Embrace Web 2.0 cautiously
News The company says businesses should recognize the value of blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 tech, but should be aware of possible adverse impacts.
Tags: Web 2.0
