In a nod to the success of emerging Web 2.0 technologies like AJAX and streaming media, one of the country's largest Internet benchmarking companies will no longer use page views as its primary metric for comparing sites.
Spotplex on Monday announced a new content-aggregation site that it said will provide Digg.com-like rankings of Internet content -- with a twist. Instead of requiring users to rank content, Spotplex will automatically rank it based on the number of people reading it.
Digg.com Thursday found itself facing the wrath of its notoriously vocal users once again as complaints poured in about a new system for posting comments.
IBM is making a big push into the Web 2.0 world with a team collaboration product, social computing software and a suite of tools for building Web mashups.
Google, which has been working to ward off questions about its privacy policies and defend its YouTube subsidiary against a US$1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit filed in March by Viacom, Monday launched a <a href="http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> that it will use to address those and other public policy issues -- and to try to enlist the aid of Internet users in its lobbying efforts.
More Web sites in North America embed photo-related widgets than other types of these small, single purpose chunks of code, according to a newly released study.
Digg is a Web 2.0 company that lets users post news stories, which are then "dugg" (bumped up the list of popular stories) or buried based on the reactions of other readers. The company's Digg.com Web site has been on a steady growth path since February 2005, when a story about Paris Hilton's cell phone being hacked was "dugg," resulting in traffic doubling virtually overnight. Now, the "Digg this story" logo is included with countless online news stories, and having a story or blog post "dugg" has become an online status symbol. Digg.com celebrated its 1 millionth registered user in mid-April.
<a href="http://www.mahalo.com/" target="_blank">Mahalo</a>, a search engine that uses people to come up with search results, said today it has begun taking applications from people who want to be paid for researching queries.
Microsoft Monday announced deeper integration between its Visual Studio Team System and its Microsoft Project technology, which the company described as "the first down payment" for the follow-on to Visual Studio 2008 due out this year.
The University of Minnesota and 11 other universities in the Midwest announced Wednesday that they have partnered with Google to digitize up to 10 million bound book volumes as part of the Google Books Library Project.
Mainsoft Wednesday unveiled a suite of tools it says will enable Visual Studio developers to build .Net Web and server applications that can run on Linux or other Java-enabled platforms without writing new code.
US-based Hearst-Argyle Television and YouTube Monday announced a joint effort to add news, weather and entertainment videos and original Hearst television programming in five local markets to YouTube.
Google is using its first worldwide Developer Day to launch Google Gears, an open source technology for building Web applications that can work offline.
In another move to build out its social networking presence, CBS announced Wednesday that it has acquired Last.fm Ltd., a social network for music fans, for $US280 million in cash.
EveryScape Tuesday introduced an interactive, searchable Web site aimed at allowing people to "immerse" themselves in different parts of the world via virtual tours and with access to content created by other visitors.