This morning the controversial Australian political and business website Crikey announced its AU$1 million sale to Private Media Partners.
Technology executives no longer need to furtively check that no one's looking when they browse the Slashdot "News for Nerds" Web site.
The disgruntled developers behind Mambo, an open-source software for publishing Web sites, have launched their own version of the project, called Joomla.
Publishers are looking for a bridge to lure magazine and newspaper readers across to corresponding Web sites, which is why odd little images are appearing on the pages of more publications.
Anyone can publish their ideas on the internet, but is there anything interesting out there or just a lot more garbage than there used to be?
Amazon engineer DeWitt Clinton's ringing endorsement of Atom over RSS as the XML flavour of choice for syndicated feed content for discerning geeks made headlines yesterday, although the points he makes have been made before.
A recent thread of conversation across a couple of 2.0 blogs has been the subject of whether Web 2.0 is suited not only for implementation inside a corporate firewall, but by companies with a view to improving their relations with their customers.
I get the feeling there will be a lot of tired tech buzzwords from fads gone by which will be wheeled out soon with the suffix "2.0" bolted on.
Many Web 2.0 technologies and functions fall under the umbrella of KM: wikis for collaboration; tagging and "folksonomy", which is known to the fuddy-duddies as taxonomy; and blogging, which behind the firewall would otherwise be known as intranet publishing.
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
Backers of Mambo are deeply divided over how to govern the open-source project.
Thousands of Australian Web technologists and internet workers are attending the Web Directions South conference in Sydney this week. We dropped in to see what all the fuss was about.
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Marcelo Calbucci, a one-time Microsoft engineer, suffered the fate of many tech-savvy people: Family members counted on him for their computing needs, including building Web sites.
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, John Battelle of Federated Media Publishing questions Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang about Microsoft's bid to buy Yahoo for $33 dollars a share earlier in 2008. Yang says the companies weren't far from agreeing on terms of a deal. He adds that Microsoft has made it clear that is no longer interested in buying Yahoo.
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, John Battelle, chairman of Federated Media Publishing, talks to Jerry Yang about his job as CEO of Yahoo. Yang discusses his decision to take the position, the challenges he's faced since then, and his vision for building a better advertising and content platform.
Adobe Creative Suite 2.0 is a premier design environment, combining image-editing and layout apps for both print documents and the Web.
Three easy-to-use consumer desktop publishing programs brawl on the basis of their templates, output options, Web integration, clip-art collections, and more. See which one's left standing.
Microsoft Expression Web is a solid Web site layout program that replaces FrontPage and offers tools for dynamic designs, although we'd like more help for newbies.
The software company has released a streamlined version of Dreamweaver to take the hard work out of Web design.
Commentary: Google is one of the best things on the Web--but there are signs that it may be tempted into rank commercialism.
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