web 2.0

Intel Inside ... More Than Computers

In the Web 2.0 world, computers aren't the only products that depend on Intel chips.READ»

• Intel Risks It All (Again)
• Intel Everywhere
• Intel Then, Now, and Tomorrow

Review: Mitch Joel and Six Pixels Of Separation - The First Post-Web 2.0 Marketing Book

Mitch Joel has written what I believe is the first post-web 2.0 marketing book. Here's my review and an explanation of why you need to buy it.READ»

2Do.Over

What if 2.0 were an authentic chance to revisit and do over what came in 1.0?READ»

SEO: The most abused word in the tech world today

How did SEO come to be known as the know-all and be-all of the Web? Is Search Engine Optimization really that hard to achieve?READ»

Where are the Women in Tech and Social Media?

When you look around the room at a tech or social media conference what do you see? Are the panels filled with a diverse group of tech and social media experts? Chances are they are probably filled with white men. So why is that a ...READ»

The Who or What and the How of Change Agents

What makes something a "change agent?" One is that which is propelled by the desire to develop better methods or tools. The drive to change may come from the outside in, as a response or a result of situations or circumstances the agent finds himself in. It may also come from the inside out, like a person’s inner desires or aspirations. However, change agents are not limited to people. Technology itself is another change agent factor.READ»

The Web Becomes the New Health-Care Battleground

Competing Websites from Barack Obama's Organizing for America and the Republican Party duke it out over the future of American health care.READ»

Twitter's Published Stolen Documents Raises Ethics Questions

"Journalists should report on what people need to know, not what people want to know" the late Walter Cronkite once said. Journalism has certainly changed since Cronkite retired. The most established newspapers in history are ...READ»

Twitterbursts: It’s Not About The Tools; It’s All About The Tools

If you think microsharing (Twitter and it's enterprise-strength counterparts) is new, consider that humans have conveyed short messages, rife with meaning, for over thirty thousand years. Smoke signals have traversed the airways. Expressive quips filled Seinfeld’s show. At all stages and ages, we burst forward. So what is new, what makes this a revolution?READ»

What Are You Watching on Meagan Good?

Actress Meagan Good brings Hollywood to the internet... more.READ»

Social Media Roundup: Sex and Drama

Sex and drama have filled the social media world this week. Between prominent tech figures and investors spouting more crude images of women to make their points about Web site usability to a Harvard study ...READ»

Effective Networking in your Underwear

It sounds like everyone’s worse nightmare…. You go to the office and suddenly realize you’re just wearing underpants, or worse nothing at all. I think we’ve all had that dream, am I right? BUT, in reality it doesn’t ...READ»

Pioneering Women Who Are Breaking Through the Digital Ceiling Part 3

What would you do if your customers revolted against a new company policy? Would you put it to a public vote on the company blog?  When Amy Muller and her business partners were looking for an inexpensive CRM or trouble ticket ...READ»

Pioneering Women Who Are Breaking Through the Digital Ceiling Part 2

Shireen Mitchell, Founder of Digital Sisters/Sistas, Chair of the media and technology task force of the National Council of Women's Organizations (Geekette '84) and one of the founders of the Fem 2.0 Conference and Social Media ...READ»

Pioneering Women Who Are Breaking Through the Digital Ceiling – Part 1

On Monday I posed the question on the Fast Company blog “Who’s to Blame for the Digital Ceiling?". Technology and social media change makers Lisa Stone of BlogHer, Shireen Mitchell of Social Media Women of Color, Amy ...READ»

Vista: The Safest Operating System on the Planet?

At least that's what Microsoft COO Kevin Turner said last week during a speech at a CIO summit. "Vista today, post-Service Pack 2, which is now in the marketplace, is the safest, most reliable OS we've ever built. It's ...READ»

Yelp Lets Businesses Yelp Back

The user-submitted restaurant and small business review site Yelp has been the subject of some pretty hot debates over its policies as its influence in local markets from San Francisco to New York has grown. Now it seems they ...READ»

The Ultimate Showdown of Open Source Web CMS

At the recent SXSW (or South by Southwest Conference), they recently held “the ultimate open source CMS showdown.” The format of the event was patterned after “Project Runway” and “The Iron Chef” reality shows where three teams of all-star Web developers were asked to build a Web site in each of their chosen platforms using a single design concept (in this case provided by the award winning Mark Boulton Design studios) and project specification (a fictional nonprofit). Participants came from the camps of three of the best known and most widely used open source CMS projects out there: Drupal, Joomla and WordPress.READ»

When ROI Measurement And Actual Effectiveness Are Mutually Exclusive

In the 2009 Social Media Marketing and PR Benchmark Guide, MarketingSherpa explains a conundrum marketers are facing in a web 2.0 world: What do you do when the ability to measure your return on investment (ROI) is mutually exclusive to the effectiveness of a particular campaign? In other words, how do you sell a tactic up the chain of command that you know will work but can't provide definite numbers? Or conversely, how do you dissuade a course of action that has proven ineffective, but which your executives embrace because they understand the number of impressions or "hits" or lives interrupted by the campaign?READ»

iFive: Disney-Hulu-YouTube Drama, GM's Volt Fizzles, and Web 2.0 Expo Launches in Today's Innovation News

While you were sleeping, innovation put her cable box out on the curb for trash pickup. Here's today's innovation news:  1. Amid speculation that Disney would sign a deal with Hulu to offer ABC shows in exchange for an equity ...READ»

How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign

The untold story of how Chris Hughes, today only 25 years old, helped create two of the most successful startups in modern history, Facebook and the Barack Obama campaign.READ»

• The Community That Hughes Built
• Lessons From The Trenches

Financial 2.0 Services Growing, Cocky: "Banks Are Evil" Proclaims Mint CEO

    People around the world are radically changing their attitudes towards saving and spending, and alternative financial services sites are reaping the benefits. That was the message from the young ...READ»

The Joys of Facebook’s Redesign

Facebook has redesigned their site again hoping to squash some complaints that the site is cluttered and not user-friendly. Did Facebook succeed with the new redesign and create a clean site with an intuitive interface and good ...READ»

Will Online Social Networks Help Rebuild Skittles Brand?

How far would you go to build your brand? Would you turn your website’s homepage into a snaphot of what people are saying about your product via a twitter feed if you knew it would generate buzz and make your website go ...READ»

How to Save Money for a Small Business

Saving money and increasing cash flow as a small business owner and entrepreneur is very important. I've just read a great new ebook by Rieva Lesonsky and Ronan Keane about how to use Web 2.0 and social media websites to do just that!READ»