All Web 2.0

Microsoft turns Windows Live into a social network

Microsoft this week unveiled a slew of new online services that essentially transforms its Windows Live site into a social network. The changes, which include updated photo sharing, e-mail and instant messaging capabilities, have received mostly positive reviews from Web 2.0 industry observers. Microsoft also announced that it is integrating activities from some 50 companies and Web 2.0 services -- including Yahoo Inc.'s Flickr photo-sharing service, LinkedIn Corp., Photobucket Inc., T...

Generating Leads in a Web 2.0 World

Web 2.0 technologies have changed the way companies and their customers interact, writes columnist Louis Columbus. So, he advises, companies should update the message they deliver to their customers to take better advantage of this new conversation. Marketing is going through a revolution online, thanks to the continual adoption of the Web 2.0 concepts originally defined by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty. If you want to see some excellent graphics and analysis explaining Web 2.0, subscrib...

A software conference breaks out at Web 2.0 Expo

NEW YORK--When News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch plunked down $580 million to buy the social networking site MySpace in 2005, C.H. Low had a reaction not that uncommon among tech industry veterans. "I said, 'This is ridiculous! Are we in another bubble?' " said Low. "But I thought, 'Murdoch is a smart man. Something else must be going on here.' " Three years later, Low is the CEO of the software startup Orbius, one of an estimated 50 to 100 companies selling software and on-demand tools to ...

That Web 2.0? We are so over that

As much as economic bubbles keep bursting all about us these days, it seems only a matter of time before the same happens to the ultrahip Web 2.0 phenomenon. In fact, as our Brier Dudley noted in his blog last week, it may already be happening, given that even the tech magazines are making fun of the "cool kids" of Web. 2.0. His case in point: PCMag's feature listing the 10 "most absurd" social networks — you know, sites such as Dogster, a network for dog lovers that claims to have three-q...