Gannett Co., Inc., an international news and information company, has acquired Ripple6, Inc., a provider of social media services.
Posted Nov 18, 2008
WorkLight Inc., a developer of server software products, and Tata Consultancy Services, a global IT services and business solutions firm, announced a partnership to provide companies the ability to engage customers, partners, and employees through consumer Web 2.0 tools, such as Facebook, iGoogle, iPhone apps, desktop gadgets, RSS, and more.
Posted Nov 14, 2008
The Federation of American Scientists unveiled an infrastructure for cataloguing virtual environments called Virtual Worlds.
Posted Nov 14, 2008
Microsoft Corp. announced the next generation of Windows Live, an integrated set of online services for consumers.
Posted Nov 14, 2008
Demand Media, a provider of social media, announced the launch of Pluck On Demand, a free self-serve widget-based product.
Posted Nov 11, 2008
Digg has announced that the next Digg Dialogg guest will be former Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Chairman of Current Media, Al Gore.
Posted Nov 04, 2008
Orbius, a provider of social marketing solutions, announced the release of a community platform.
Posted Nov 04, 2008
RockYou, a creator and distributor of applications on the social web, announced an additional $17M in investments from Softbank, the leading shareholder of Yahoo! Japan, and SK Telecom Ventures, the venture capital arm of SK Telecom.
Posted Nov 04, 2008
Central Desktop, the web-based social technology platform for business teams, announced the release of its content rich Customer Network.
Posted Oct 31, 2008
Huddle.net has announced a team collaboration and project management application for the LinkedIn business social network.
Posted Oct 31, 2008
Yahoo launched a unified profile feature that lets users access their various social media personas across the web.
Posted Oct 21, 2008
Near-Time, an Enterprise 2.0 hosted collaboration service, announced the availability of social networking functionality for the Near-Time platform including a member interest engine, community level dashboard, and advanced search facilities.
Posted Oct 17, 2008
Technorati, a provider of blog search technology, announced the acquisition of AdEngage, an online advertising network and platform.
Posted Oct 17, 2008
PollDaddy, a provider of polling and survey widgets, has been acquired by Automattic.
Posted Oct 17, 2008
Recently, I needed to find a house to rent for my folks. I decided to see what I could do online ahead of time. Using the Street View in Google Maps, I could virtually cruise the neighborhood: I could drive up and down the street, look at the neighboring houses, and get a sense of whether this was a place for my parents or one that was better suited for students or folks who keep their cars up on blocks.
Posted Oct 17, 2008
While web marketers have long been tracking the growing influence of online consumer reviews, the influence of these reviews has reached a tipping point and the time is right for companies of all kinds to take a closer look.
Posted Oct 15, 2008
CollegeWikis, a student-run web messaging and information platform, raised $2 million in series A funding.
Posted Oct 14, 2008
It seems that everyone is blogging these days. However, despite the proliferation of blogs that range from diaries and niche subjects to celebrity, corporate, and expertly written blogs, some publishers are still hesitant to add blogging to the mix. The web has opened up a world of communication to people across the globe, but the new culture of user-generated content can mean a lot of things to those in the publishing industry, good and bad.
Posted Oct 10, 2008
Yuuguu announced the integration of the Google Talk Instant Messaging (IM) network into its real-time collaboration and web conferencing service.
Posted Oct 10, 2008
I can sing the alphabet backward. I learned it as a child and it sticks with me, just like its more popular cousin, the alphabet song. In his keynote at Enterprise Search Summit West, held Sept. 23-24 in San Jose, Calif., Gene Smith said that social discovery isn't new. It's been around a lot longer than I've known any alphabet songs—not to mention the web, much less its 2.0 iteration.
Posted Oct 10, 2008
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced the release of content redesigns for six additional clients on AIP's Scitation online publishing platform.
Posted Oct 07, 2008
I have had an opportunity to casually explore the attitudes of hundreds of large and small companies whose employees attend my New Rules of Marketing seminars and keynote speeches. Through my process of very unscientific questioning, I estimate that more than 25% of companies block employee access to YouTube, Facebook, and other social networking sites.
Posted Oct 06, 2008
Altarama Information Systems announced the availability of RefChatter, a new module that joins RefTracker, DeskStats, VRLplus, and SMSreference in the Altarama suite of integrated products for managing online and personal reference services in libraries.
Posted Oct 03, 2008
Sugar Inc., an online media company, is launching a free blogging platform called OnSugar.
Posted Sep 23, 2008
IBM and iEnterprises announced the integration of iEnterprises' customer relationship management (CRM) software, iExtensions CRM, with IBM's social networking platform, Lotus Connections.
Posted Sep 19, 2008