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Crunchie 2009 Nomination

Nominate your favorite companies, products and people for The 2009 Crunchie Awards. The Crunchie Awards is a yearly competition to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. The first Crunchies was in 2007 where Facebook was awarded the Best overall both in 2007 and 2008, Will facebook make it again in 2009.

YouTube Tops Videos Watched on October

According to ComScore 167 million U.S.-based Web users watched video online during October. Google easily led the pack, servicing a whopping 38 percent of all videos Americans viewed online, with 99 percent of those videos watched on YouTube.   Hulu delivered 856 million videos, accounting for 3.1 percent of the market and setting a new record for monthly views. Microsoft came in third, with 451 million videos viewed on its site, capturing 1.6 percent market share. Source: ComScore

Consumers view ads as necessary trade-off for Web 2.0

As more and more consumers use digital content services — such as social networking and videos — they're more willing to accept advertising if it means the services have no fee. That was one of the findings of an IBM survey of 2,800 people in six countries — Australia, Germany, India, Japan, the U.K. and the U. S. More than 70 percent of respondents said they preferred the ad-supported model to paying a fee for the services. Compared to a similar survey done last year, twice as many pe...

GigaTribe Unleashes Web 2.0 File Sharing Service In The U.S.

GigaTribe has launched its U.S. service providing users with a private, encrypted Peer-to-Peer (P2P) environment to share entire file folders of photos, videos, music and other files. The basic version of GigaTribe is free and the “Ultimate” version comes at a price tag (News - Alert) of $29.95/year. The company claims that sharing files from its application is hassle free and free of any security risks. P2P networks are largely used to share files and other types of content which cannot be...

Web 2.0 gives new tools to hate groups: experts

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Social networks MySpace and Facebook and video-sharing site YouTube are being used as powerful new tools by extremist groups to spread a message of hate, participants in a conference on Internet hate speech warned here on Monday. "MySpace, Facebook and YouTube are the 'killer apps' of the Internet today, and they're used by millions, but the virus of hate certainly has infected those technologies," Christopher Wolf, chair of the International Network Against CyberHate (INAC...