When it comes to companies that have whole-heartedly embraced Web 2.0 - or in this case Enterprise 2.0 - Pfizer ranks high on the list of early adopters. A handful of trailblazers launched a grassroots campaign almost two years ago that has since been formalized and branched out to various parts of the company.
Stymied by a lack of user interest in Microsoft Vista, many North American developers are still not targeting the new operating system when writing new applications, according to a survey released today. The survey did find some growth in Vista development will come in 2009.
Eli Lilly has signed up TopCoder to help it build large IT applications for its global drug discovery operations.
Almost a year after a new comments system prompted a user revolt, social news site Digg appears poised to roll out another system that is so far receiving warm feedback from its notoriously volatile customer base.
Sun Microsystems used Tuesday's opening JavaOne Conference keynote to demonstrate its JavaFX client technology for building rich Internet applications (RIA) and announced that the tool set will ship in the northern Autumn.
Google is maneuvering to make its Google Reader RSS tool more social by adding features that let users share specific content -- and add notes about why they are sharing it.
Web 2.0 software developers ranked Microsoft's MSN/Live Windows developer program higher than competing programs offered by Internet leaders Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Facebook and PayPal, according to results of an Evans Data report released Monday.
Google hopes to make it easier for users to get from point A to point B by integrating its Google Maps Street View images with Google Maps driving directions to provide visual images like this of an entire driving route.
For many IT shops, nothing strikes fear as deep in its heart as the notion that a new technology will be as alluring to users as Excel, which in many organizations has withstood every attempt at being controlled at all by IT.
Google officials fielded questions from developers at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco who pressed the company about its Google App Engine, asking about everything from its language support, privacy assurances, pricing and backward compatibility.
It's not your kid's video game.
Microsoft is aiming to use the Internet as a hub to "mesh" data, devices and applications that are always updated and available from anywhere. Microsoft's new Live Mesh, which it announced as a limited technology preview Tuesday and planned to detail further here at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo, combines hosted services for storage, sharing files and peer-to-peer connections to allow multiple different devices to work together and users to access updated applications from anywhere, the company said.
It's a scenario that's become all-too familiar in many companies. After months or even years of work, the IT shop proudly presents a new application that the designers and architects believe exactly meets the business requirements provided them. Then end users tell them: "This isn't what we asked for."
Six Apart, which hosts the popular Movable Type and TypePad blogging tools, Wednesday unveiled a tool it said allows Facebook users to post to multiple blogs or micro-blogs across the Web from within the social network.
Coghead Tuesday rolled out a hosted service that can be sued by developers to sell applications created using the company's "do it yourself" Web application development technology.