All Web 2.0

December 2008 Alexa Global Top Sites

Alexa is a very powerful tool used to rank web site traffic. Find out how your web site traffic stacks up against all your competitors! .. Yahoo! - Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager. Google - Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company's focus is developing search technology. YouTube - YouTube is a way to get your vid...

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...

Google is your friend

I know there are those among us who lack my love for all things Google. Sure, it shows our kids ads, keeps track of the searches coming out of our buildings, displays naughty thumbnails that only the best of content filters can block, most kids don’t look beyond the first three hits (two of which are usually sponsored), etc., etc. Sure, that’s all true, but Google is a lot more than search. I don’t think I’m off base in saying that Google provides the largest, free set of Web 2.0 tools availa...

Facebook to set up international base in Dublin

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Online social networking site Facebook will set up its international operations center in Dublin, officials said on Thursday. "After exploring various locations throughout the region, we decided Ireland was the best place to establish our new headquarters," Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in a statement. The Dublin center will provide a range of online technical sales and operations support services to Facebook users across Europe, the Middle East...