Google News to allow people in stories to add comments
Google News is adding a new feature that will allow people involved in news stories to add their comments to the Web page.
Stories by Heather Havenstein
Report refutes claims of social networking dangers
A study released this month by the U.S. National School Boards Association debunks the common assumption that MySpace and other social networking sites are breeding grounds for sexual predators seeking to harm students.
Amazon announces Flexible Payments Service
Amazon.com Friday unveiled a beta version of a new Web service aimed at allowing developers to more easily incorporate payment processing into their sites.
Social networking quickly taking global hold
The use of social networking sites worldwide has grown substantially in the past year, with some sites seeing total visits increase as much as 270 percent, according to a study released Tuesday by Internet measurement company ComScore.
Tibco unveils open-source AJAX mashup tool
Tibco Software Monday introduced a tool aimed at easing the development of enterprise mashups.
Study: Companies apply ROI to Web 2.0
Enterprises are aiming to apply traditional ROI and business benefit measures to Web 2.0 tools despite the difficulties in measuring the "softer" returns, such as the improved productivity and communication that wikis, blogs and RSS bring to a company, a new survey has found.
Microsoft announces second beta of Visual Studio 2008
Microsoft announced the availability Thursday of the second beta version of its upcoming Visual Studio 2008 developer tools and the last version of its Silverlight rich media software code before the final version ships.
Digg releases new widgets for Web sites
Digg.com Monday released new tools called Digg Widgets that are designed to make it easier to embed content from Digg on to other Web sites.
State official: MySpace finds sex offenders among users
MySpace has identified more than 29,000 registered sex offenders among those registered to use its site -- more than four times what the company said in May it had found from an investigation, according to North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper.
Details of Microsoft's Web analytics tool leaked
Details of a new Microsoft Web analytics tool, including when the beta version will be released and how the company will get its demographic data, have leaked onto the Internet.
Google's YouTube unit dominates online video business
Almost 75 percent of U.S. Internet users streamed video online in May, according to a report released Tuesday by ComScore, an Internet measurement and analysis company.
BEA ships suite of social computing tools
BEA Systems Monday began shipping three new products aimed at spreading Web 2.0 technologies into the enterprise to help business users more easily tap corporate content.
Google unveils widgets to personalize maps
Google announced Wednesday new widgets called Mapplets that will let users gather data from multiple sources to personalize maps.
Blogosphere buzzes about 'death of the page view'
The blogosphere is buzzing about what some are calling the death of the page view following Nielsen/NetRating's announcement Tuesday that it would stop using the traditional measurement as its primary metric to compare Web sites.
Social networks becoming ingrained in daily adult life
The social networking phenomenon continues to take hold of Internet users as one in five adults worldwide say they have visited such sites, according to a study released last week.