All the stories tagged with Web 2.0
Web 2.0 Summit – Day 2
11/21/2010, Photo: Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo! and John Battelle, co-founder, Web 2.0 Summit [Web 2.0 Summit 2010] – Nov, 16 – The day started with a bunch of announcements from Yahoo! which was launching its Local Offers Program with 20 partners, [...]
Yahoo! Local Offers Program and New Messenger with Facebook, Twitter, Zynga
11/16/2010, [Web 2.0 Summit 2010] Yahoo! is rolling out its Local Offers Program with 20 partners including Groupon, GiltCity, Zozi, Crowdsaving and more (see picture). Through this program, Yahoo! will offer various deals and coupons to people according to their behavior, [...]
Web 2.0 Summit 2010 Live Stream
11/16/2010, For those who could not make it to Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, you might be interested to know that you can follow the live stream from this page. Watch live streaming video from web20tv at livestream.com We’ve posted [...]
Web 2.0 Summit – Day 1 – Photo Gallery
11/16/2010, There were not that many news at Web 2.0 Summit except for Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google, showing an “unannounced Android device from an unannounced manufacturer with Near-Field Communication” that will allow people to do all kinds of thing including paying [...]
RockMelt, a Social Web Browser
11/07/2010, Tomorrow, there’s a new competitor in the web browser arena: RockMelt. It’s a web browser built to fit perfectly “the way people use the web today” (they say), namely with Facebook, Google & Twitter completely integrated from the ground up. [...]
WiseStamp adds your social networking message to your email signature
08/31/2010, Email signatures can be used to put your contact information, or a shameless plug. It is a fairly low-maintenance tool that we use ourselves for both purposes. But in a world where you might always want to broadcast something new (like [...]
US Warns North Korea That Twitter May Be the Point of No Return
08/17/2010, North Korea has announced via Twitter that the secretive regime has joined the rest of the social, modern world via social networking. The government has announced that it has now joined Twitter and has opened a YouTube channel, perhaps in [...]
Google Street View Under Fire for Privacy in Germany
08/11/2010, Google is under fire again over privacy issues in Germany after initial concerns over WiFi sniffing regarding the Google Street View team. This time, German officials are concerned that Google is only giving building owners only 4 weeks of time [...]
Google Goes Social With Slide Acquisition
08/06/2010, Google has acquired social gaming company Slide Inc. in an effort to remain (somewhat) competitive against Facebook (and Twitter). Although terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, many are speculating that the deal was completed at $200 million. Google is facing [...]
Wave to Google Wave as Google shuts it down
08/04/2010, Hailed by the social-techno-geek community as (almost) the solution to the world’s problems, Google Wave is unfortunately going to be abandoned (official post), just shortly after exiting beta mode. Google said that Wave has failed to attract users in a [...]
Social Media Dominates Online Time
08/02/2010, A recent Nielsen study now shows that social media is now our favorite online pastime, beating out email by a wide margin. The study shows that Americans spend 23 percent of online time on social media portals, with Facebook leading [...]
Join Ubergizmo and Jason Fried/37Signals at 11amPT to discuss the new workplace
07/22/2010, We’re invited to be guest Tweeters at tomorrow’s webcast “The new workplace in the new normal” with Jason Fried, the co-founder of 37Signals, a popular web-software company. The conversation is hosted at our sponsor: HP Input|Output. Here’s an overview: “The workplace is undergoing a massive [...]
Google Inks a 20-year Wind Energy Deal
07/20/2010, Google is buying 20 114 megawatts of wind power from NextEra Energy in a deal that will last for the next 20 years. The goal is to power data centers that support your usage of Google’s services so that Google [...]
