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Business in the 21st century: Stay tuned for brave new world
Insight perspective Corporate leaders, take note: Web technologies are poised to change everything--economic, political and social, says consultant.
Tags: Web 2.0, Business Strategies & Functions, Leadership, Semantic Web, Tim O'Reilly, Social Media, Social Web, Web 2.0, Internet, collaboration
Jolicloud to usher return of thin client
News Web ubiquity and emergence of netbooks that ride on maturing cloud platform will push thin clients mainstream, says Tariq Krim, founder of Linux OS maker.
Tags: Linux desktop OS, Notebooks and tablets, Thin clients, Apple Inc., Operating System, Netvibes, Jolicloud OS, Plug-in, Apple Macintosh, ASUS
A Web site for crushes and votes
Insight newsmaker Astute young businessman Ian Lim believes helping video bloggers become stars will also rake in money for a site he's founded.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Business development/management, TV, micropayment, Video, Singapore, Platform, blogging, revenue
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, MySpace
Canadian official takes issue with Facebook privacy
News New report from Canada's privacy commissioner expresses concern about third parties accessing member data as well as how long Facebook holds onto the content from deactivated profiles.
Tags: Privacy, Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Data Management, Privacy, Tool, Social Web, user control, Facebook
Google brings Friend Connect to the masses
News Google joins the data portability crowd with 'Friend Connect' allowing users to bring their data from social networks. The programming-free network is said to even incorporate Web sites that are not socially-enabled.
Tags: Networking, Data Management, Networking technology, MySpace, Google Inc., Site, Orkut.com, Social Web, Plaxo Inc., Use Case
The real Facebook-Twitter turf war: Marketers
News Facebook has finally launched a feature to syndicate profile updates through Twitter, but it's only for its brand-based "fan pages". What gives?
Tags: Web 2.0, Social Web, photograph, API, Facebook, blogging, marketing, blog, brand, Web 2.0
DataPortability has big names but a long road ahead
News A new group called DataPortability hopes to bridge one social media site to another, using existing technologies like OpenID and RSS.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Digital media, Next-generation technology/networks
Yahoo plays the field with News Corp.
News The two companies are mulling a deal that would involve mixing their Internet properties, and could spur a new offer from Microsoft.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions
Facebook takes aim at Twitter, buys FriendFeed
News The massive social network confirms it has acquired the startup, which aggregates user posts and comments from various sites including Twitter.
Tags: Web 2.0, Twitter, social networking, Facebook, co-founder, leader, talent, Web, acquisition, Web 2.0
Focus on your social network with the Flock browser
Techguide A number of different Web browsers are available for Linux with mildly differing features. Vincent Danen checks out another browser choice which is based on the Gecko engine.
Lessons from Twitter's security breach
News Information taken when some Twitter employees were hacked is finally coming to light. Can this happen to other companies?
Tags: Spam and phishing, Twitter, Security, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Password, e-mail, debit card, Hacker, CNET Networks Inc.
