Web 2.0

Opinion: Security ideas for your mom revisited

Source: web

I like the Internet. I remember years ago my first experience with the Internet. It was exciting to be able to read Web pages created by people many miles and countries away from my home. It was exciting to be able to connect with new people. The Internet was a new information highway that would re...

Published 2 hours ago

10 Micro Trends to Bet on For Your Audacious Startup

Source: ReadWriteWeb

3. Reduced power of gatekeepers. This relates to Transparency. Reduced information asymmetry reduces the power of gatekepeepers/intermediaries/tollbooths. The Financial Services industry is the mother of all gatekeepers. The Economist states that in the early 1980s, the financial s...

Published 8 hours ago

Web 2.0 (noun) | It's a thing...

Source: iglib (WordPress)

From its inception in 2004 at the O’Reily Media Web Conference, the word Web 2.0 as we have come to know it is the ‘newer’ type of web: “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on...

Published Sat, Oct 11

Bay Area business calendar

Source: SFGate

Help to make small businesses grow BiztechDay, an event designed to help small-business owners and entrepreneurs expand their businesses with the help of the Internet and Web 2.0 tools, will be held from 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Hilton San...

Published Sat, Oct 11

Social Media Provides a New Opportunity for Sparking Excitement About Products and Services

Source: rsaling (WordPress)

Increasing numbers of people in the 13-to-30 age group (a consumer demographic for which marketers grapple) can be found on the internet. These self-made media producers ritually scroll through articles on their RSS readers; chat with friends on instant-messaging services; send and...

Published Fri, Oct 10

Internet Retailing 2008 de-brief

Source: upstreams (WordPress)

The UK eCommerce community is blooming.  And although I couldn't be there, I am told you needed no more evidence of this than at Internet Retailing 2008 (IR2008) where networking, buzz & innovation met with ideas, insight and research.  Salmon had three clients presenting in the conf...

Published Fri, Oct 10

AM Law Tech 2008: IT in the balance

Source: pennyedwards (WordPress)

While some firms have dipped their toes in the water -- 43 percent run one or more blogs; 24 percent use intranet wikis (Web pages that let users contribute or modify content) -- it's been fairly ho-hum stuff by Internet standards. Blogs with lawyer posts on happenings in a practice area and...

Published Fri, Oct 10

Horizon highlights: Rethinking the basics

Source: features.csmonitor.com

Our regular roundup of sci-tech stories from across the Web includes: Professor Pogue teaches some tech basics, five Web 2.0 services that are actually worth your time, and could special lightbulbs replace Wi-Fi hubs? Let’s kick it off: Showdown: BlackBerry Storm vs. iPhone 3G "After te...

Published Fri, Oct 10