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The Web 2.0 Journal News Desk keeps you up to speed with all that's happening in the world of the read/write Web and all its mushrooming new facets - from tagging, wikis, mash-ups, and image-sharing to "Advertising 2.0," podcasting, and The Writeable Web.
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OpenAJAX Alliance
Launches Website By Web 2.0 News Desk OpenAJAX Alliance, an
open industry
collaboration dedicated
to developing and
expanding AJAX, has
announced new partners
and initiatives around
the AJAX Community,
signaling continued
momentum for AJAX-based
Web technologies. Sep. 21, 2006 08:00 AM Reads: 7,616 Replies: 5 | Web 2.0 Journal: MSN
Launches Beta of Soapbox
on MSN Video By Web 2.0 News Desk MSN has announced the
U.S. beta release of
Soapbox on MSN Video, a
user-uploaded video
service that makes it
easy for people to
express themselves by
uploading, discovering
and sharing personal
videos with the Soapbox
community and others
around the world. Soapbox... Sep. 19, 2006 10:00 AM Reads: 7,691 Replies: 1 | Gartner Rates AJAX As Key
Emerging Technology in
2006 By Web 2.0 News Desk Gartner announced its
2006 Emerging
Technologies Hype Cycle
which assesses the
maturity, impact and
adoption speed of 36 key
technologies and trends
during the next ten
years. This year's hype
cycle highlights three
major themes that are
experiencing significant
... Sep. 18, 2006 03:30 PM Reads: 9,113 Replies: 4 | AJAXWorld Magazine: IBM
Exec Gets Web 2.0 Mash-Up
Religion By Web 2.0 News Desk In a keynote speech to
leading technology
executives, Rod Smith,
IBM's vice president of
emerging Internet
technologies, declared
that the technologies
underpinning blogs, wikis
and innovative sites like
Google Maps and Wikipedia
on the Web will transform
the way ... Sep. 12, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 12,323 Replies: 4 | Enterprise Web 2.0
Update: Jefferies Deploys
New Business Apps Using
Nexaweb Enterprise Web
2.0 Platform By Web 2.0 News Desk 'Whether the demand is
for highly usable
interfaces or the power
of real-time,
event-driven access to
enterprise information,
Nexaweb can provide the
solution needed,' said
Chris Heidelberger, CEO
at Nexaweb, Nexaweb
Technologiesâ, Inc.,
provider of the leading
... Sep. 7, 2006 12:45 PM Reads: 7,176 Replies: 1 | Enterprise Web 2.0
Update: Nexaweb Studio
2.4 Brings Enhanced UI
Design and Data
Integration Features By Web 2.0 News Desk As consumer and
enterprise users alike
nowadays demand more from
their online experiences,
the timing of the release
of v 2.4 of Nexaweb
Studio 2.4 - the latest
version of its
Eclipse-based IDE toolset
- could hardly be better. Aug. 23, 2006 04:15 PM Reads: 9,139 Replies: 3 | Chamber Provides New
Tools For Women To Close
Gender Gap In eCommerce By Web 2.0 News Desk  Conducting small business
on the Internet is still
too complicated. Women
who want to launch a
part-time career to
augment their earnings,
or who desire to create a
full time business from
the Web face an immense
learning curve of
technology and services
that stop... Aug. 16, 2006 03:15 PM Reads: 8,831 Replies: 1 | MySQL Powers Web 2.0, Say
Advocates By Web 2.0 News Desk  Leading Web 2.0 sites
such as YouTube, Flickr,
Habbo Hotel, Linden Labs,
CyWorld, Technorati,
Facebook, FeedBurner,
Feedster, Wikipedia,
Digg, LiveJournal,
Mixi.jp, SimpleStar,
PhotoBucket, 37signals,
del.icio.us, Trulia,
Neopets, and Zimbra have
all selected MySQ... Aug. 15, 2006 05:15 PM Reads: 8,183 Replies: 2 | New Web 2.0 Mash-Up
Expands
Photo-Merchandising
Opportunities By Web 2.0 News Desk Exclaim launches Media
Merchant, an exciting new
service that plugs into
any online social network
to offer merchandising
and selling options to
photo-sharing
shutterbugs, and to
create a new revenue
stream for service
providers. Aug. 10, 2006 06:00 AM Reads: 7,291 Replies: 3 | Web 2.0 Journal
Contributing Editor
Starts "Mobile Web 2.0"
Blog By Web 2.0 News Desk Author and publisher Ajit
Jaokar, a contributing
editor to SYS-CON Media's
pioneering Web 2.0
Journal, has launched a
brand new blog, the
'Mobile Web 2.0' Blog. Jul. 31, 2006 07:15 AM Reads: 6,878 | Web 2.0 Search Solutions
for the Heritage Industry By Web 2.0 News Desk Eloquent Systems has
launched two new modules
which improve research
and information access
for the heritage
industry. Leveraging the
popular Google Maps and
Google Earth products, as
well as the power of
leading search engines
such as MSN, Google and
Yahoo, Eloqu... Jul. 26, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 7,598 Replies: 2 | ZapThink - Rich Internet
Applications Based on
AJAX, Flash, and Java By Web 2.0 News Desk ZapThink released a
report showing that
demand for Rich Internet
Applications and more
sophisticated user
interaction is increasing
dramatically. RIAs
provide an end user
experience that combines
the experience that users
are most familiar with in
desktop and clie... Jul. 25, 2006 03:45 PM Reads: 8,418 Replies: 2 | Web 2.0 Hot Deal Site
Launched By Web 2.0 News Desk  Dealspl.us, which
combines BensBargains.net
and Digg.com, is an
online social shopping
community driven by its
users and community. It
offers a distinctive
place where user can
share great bargains
gathered from throughout
the internet. dealspl.us
was founded on t... Jul. 17, 2006 02:45 PM Reads: 7,397 | ActiveGrid Brings Web 2.0
Application Development
and Deployment to
Enterprise By Web 2.0 News Desk  ActiveGrid announced the
release of ActiveGrid
Studio 2.0, a development
environment specifically
engineered for enterprise
Web 2.0 application
development. The company
also announced the
release of ActiveGrid
Server 2.0, an
application server that
allows companie... Jul. 12, 2006 01:15 PM Reads: 13,551 | Web 2.0 Journal: Sun
Awarded 2006 IDEA by
Industrial Designers
Society of America and
BusinessWeek By Web 2.0 News Desk Sun Microsystems has
announced that its
ground-breaking family of
workstations and servers
earned an Industrial
Design Excellence Award
(IDEA). Sun's Ultra
Series Workstations, and
the Sun Fire X4100
servers and the Sun Fire
T2000 server with
CoolThreads technolog... Jul. 4, 2006 06:45 PM Reads: 7,820 Replies: 1 | Sun Microsystems
Customers Shape Web 2.0 By Web 2.0 News Desk Sun Microsystems has
announced new customer
adoption of its
breakthrough Sun Fire
server family with
CoolThreads technology.
DigiTar, Joyent and
Fotolog represent a new
crop of Web 2.0 customers
that have recently moved
to the UltraSPARC T1
processor-based Sun Fir... Jul. 4, 2006 06:30 PM Reads: 9,183 Replies: 1 | Web 2.0 Journal: IBM
Unveils New System x and
BladeCenter Systems By Web 2.0 News Desk IBM has introduced a new
IBM BladeCenter blade and
System x servers and
workstations geared to
help reduce power and
cooling costs while
delivering substantial
performance gains over
earlier technology. The
new systems enable up to
90% percent better
application p... Jun. 28, 2006 01:30 PM Reads: 8,116 Replies: 1 | Web 2.0 Journal:
Microsoft and Creative
Commons Release Tool for
Copyright Licensing By Web 2.0 News Desk Microsoft and Creative
Commons, a nonprofit
organization that offers
flexible copyright
licenses for creative
works, have teamed up to
release a copyright
licensing tool that
enables the easy addition
of Creative Commons
licensing information for
works in popular ... Jun. 27, 2006 04:45 PM Reads: 11,640 Replies: 1 | ActiveGrid Brings Web 2.0
Application Development
and Deployment to
Enterprise By Web 2.0 News Desk ActiveGrid, the
Enterprise Web 2.0
company, announced the
release of ActiveGrid
Studio 2.0, the
development environment
specifically engineered
for enterprise Web 2.0
application development.
The company also
announced the release of
ActiveGrid Server 2.0, an
ap... Jun. 26, 2006 01:30 PM Reads: 8,331 Replies: 1 | Web 2.0 Journal: IBM
Opens First Development
Laboratory in Russia By Web 2.0 News Desk IBM Chairman & CEO Samuel
J. Palmisano has opened
IBM's first development
lab in Russia as the
company continues to
increase its investment
in high-growth countries.
IBM will invest $40
million over the next
three years in the
Russian Systems &
Technology Laborato... Jun. 21, 2006 05:00 PM Reads: 10,878 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Releases
Windows Live Messenger By Web 2.0 News Desk Microsoft releases
Windows Live Messenger,
which goes beyond the
traditional instant
messaging (IM) service,
enabling people to
connect and share, with
free PC-to-PC calls and
inexpensive calls from a
PC to phones around the
world, video calling,
easy sharing with... Jun. 20, 2006 11:45 AM Reads: 13,466 | Web 2.0 Journal: Cingular
Offers Microsoft Direct
Push Technology By Web 2.0 News Desk Cingular Wireless will
offer its business
customers access to
corporate e-mail via
Direct Push Technology, a
feature of Microsoft
Windows Mobile 5.0 with
the Messaging and
Security Feature Pack
(MSFP) upgrade, beginning
on June 19, 2006. Jun. 18, 2006 02:30 AM Reads: 15,034 Replies: 3 | SEO/SEM Journal: Arkivio
Joins Hitachi Data
Systems ISV Partner
Program By Web 2.0 News Desk Arkivio providing
Information Lifecycle
Management (ILM)
solutions for the
enterprise has announced
that it has joined the
Hitachi Data Systems
independent software
vendor (ISV) partner
program. As part of its
participation in the
program, Arkivio will be
ensuri... Jun. 17, 2006 05:45 PM Reads: 9,731 | Microsoft Collaborates
With University of
California and Toronto
Libraries for Windows
Live Book Search By Web 2.0 News Desk Microsoft has announced
two key advances in
Windows Live Book Search,
a service that will
enable Web searchers to
find answers from
authoritative, trusted
book content. The
addition of two new
participants, the
University of California
and the University of
Toro... Jun. 17, 2006 05:45 PM Reads: 7,849 | Microsoft Releases
Antigen E-Mail Security
Products By Web 2.0 News Desk Microsoft has announced
the release of Microsoft
Antigen e-mail security
products - including
Antigen for Exchange,
Antigen for SMTP
Gateways, Antigen Spam
Manager and Antigen
Enterprise Manager
available to customers
July 1, 2006. Jun. 17, 2006 05:45 PM Reads: 10,421 | Ubiquity Software and
Microsoft To Develop
Converged Communications
Solutions By Web 2.0 News Desk Ubiquity Software and
Microsoft announced they
have signed an agreement
to jointly develop market
and sell converged
communications solutions
to telecommunications
service providers
worldwide. Through the
alliance, the companies
will deliver solutions
that bring t... Jun. 17, 2006 04:30 PM Reads: 6,426 Replies: 2 | Web 2.0 Journal:
Microsoft Security
Response Alliance Unites
Global Internet Service
Providers By Web 2.0 News Desk As a part of the
Microsoft Security
Response Alliance
(MSRA)'s charter to help
protect computer users
from online threats,
Microsoft led a group of
global Internet service
providers (ISPs) in
announcing Protect
Yourself This Summer, a
weeklong effort beginning
J... Jun. 17, 2006 02:45 PM Reads: 7,343 Replies: 1 | IBM Executive Declares
Web 2.0 Technology to
Drive New Business
Applications By Web 2.0 News Desk In a keynote speech to
leading technology
executives, Rod Smith,
IBM's Vice President of
emerging Internet
technologies, declared
that the technologies
underpinning blogs, wikis
and innovative sites like
Google Maps and Wikipedia
on the Web will transform
the way ... Jun. 17, 2006 02:45 PM Reads: 11,217 Replies: 1 | Web 2.0 Journal: IBM and
AvarSYS Collaborates to
Provide Advanced
Visualization Solutions By Web 2.0 News Desk IBM and AvarSYS have
announced a collaboration
using IBM's Deep
Computing Visualization
(DCV) technology that can
provide AvarSYS customers
with visualization
systems, particularly
those customers migrating
from Silicon Graphics
Incorporated (SGI)
technology. Jun. 17, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 7,514 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Releases
Windows Compute Cluster
Server 2003 By Web 2.0 News Desk Microsoft announced
manufacturing of Windows
Compute Cluster Server
2003, the company's first
software offering
designed to run parallel,
high-performance
computing (HPC)
applications for
customers solving complex
computations. Windows
Compute Cluster Server
200... Jun. 17, 2006 02:15 PM Reads: 9,264 Replies: 1 | Web 2.0 Journal: Emails
Become Locked and Secure
With Rogers and IBM By Web 2.0 News Desk Rogers Business Solutions
has launched Canada's
first subscription-based
encryption email service,
hosted by IBM, which
provides for the
confidentiality of email
communication for
business users. Rogers
Secure Mail encrypts
information between
sender and recipien... Jun. 17, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 6,990 | In Web 2.0 Era, IBM
Maintains Leadership in
IT Operations Management
Software By Web 2.0 News Desk IBM has announced that
analyst firm Gartner Inc.
has ranked IBM as the
worldwide market share
leader in the IT
operations management
software marketplace
based on total software
revenue for 2005. This
marks the fifth
consecutive year that IBM
maintained its leader... Jun. 15, 2006 10:45 AM Reads: 6,348 Replies: 1 | Web 2.0 Journal: Redback
Networks Extends
Relationship with IBM By Web 2.0 News Desk Redback Networks
announced that it has
extended its existing
relationship with IBM for
the use of IBM's
Applications On Demand
Services. Redback
believes that utilizing
IBM's services will allow
Redback to further focus
on developing innovative
IP-based products a... Jun. 15, 2006 10:30 AM Reads: 8,060 Replies: 1 | .NET News: Microsoft
Establishes
Interoperability Customer
Executive Council By Web 2.0 News Desk Microsoft has announced
that it has formed the
Interoperability Customer
Executive Council to
identify areas for
interoperability
improvements across its
products and the overall
software industry.
Customers are working in
increasingly
heterogeneous IT
environme... Jun. 14, 2006 07:00 PM Reads: 9,469 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Launches New
ABACUS Smart Watch 2006
with MSN Direct By Web 2.0 News Desk Microsoft's Smart
Personal Objects
Technology (SPOT)
initiative has launched
the next generation of
Smart Watches for MSN
Direct: the ABACUS Smart
Watch 2006. These newest
watches feature double
the storage capacity of
previous watches,
improved download speed,
... Jun. 14, 2006 06:45 PM Reads: 7,087 Replies: 1 | PodZinger Awarded for
Best Web 2.0 Application
at the 2006 MITX
Technology Awards By Web 2.0 News Desk PodZinger has been
selected as a winner in
the category of Best Web
2.0 Application for the
2006 MITX Technology
Awards. The MITX
Technology Awards,
produced by the
Massachusetts Innovation
& Technology Exchange,
recognize innovative
technologies developed in
th... Jun. 14, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 6,655 Replies: 1 | AJAX-Based Web 2.0
Business App To Be
Launched by FinSock By Web 2.0 News Desk  FinSock has announced
that it will release a
web-based small business
software solution in
June. The so-called 'Web
2.0' application will
allow business owners and
their employees the
ability to break the
confinement of the
conventional office. It
has had the bene... May. 31, 2006 02:30 PM Reads: 8,676 Replies: 7 | Web 2.0 Journal: Dell to
Bundle Google By Web 2.0 News Desk Just as Yahoo and eBay
announce a major
agreement to work
together against Google
(and to some extent,
Microsoft), comes word
that Dell will be
bundling Google's desktop
and toolbar, adding
another dimension to the
emerging battle among
Google, Yahoo, and
Microsoft. May. 26, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 6,398 | Web 2.0 Journal: Storage
Analyst Farley Questions
Sun's Strategy By Web 2.0 News Desk Analyst Marc Farley has
some strong opinions as
to new Sun CEO Jonathan
Schwartz's appointment of
long-time Sun executive
David Yen as head of the
company's storage
division. Farley
acknowledges Yen's
technical brilliance and
success in heading the
company's scala... May. 25, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 9,232 | Jobster Acquires
Innovative Web 2.0
Start-Up Jobby By Web 2.0 News Desk Jobster announced it has
acquired Jobby, an
innovative start-up that
helps jobseekers get
noticed through new
tagging techniques. With
the addition of Jobby's
AJAX programming
expertise as well as
their innovative user
interface and tagging
methodology, Jobster wi... May. 24, 2006 11:00 PM Reads: 7,803 Replies: 3 |
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