All Web 2.0

Clearspring

Clearspring Technologies is a privately held Web 2.0 software company that offers a web widget platform. Clearspring's viral distribution product enables web widgets to be shared and distributed across blogging, social networking sites, and personal Web sites. Clearspring's product offering also includes two approaches toward advertising with widgets: widgets that are served as ad content through an ad server, and an ad network that provides advertisers the ability to serve advertisements within...

Facebook

Facebook is a popular, free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory schools give to inc...

Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, or...

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...