There is speculation that a big name prospective buyer is looking to acquire business social network LinkedIn, after its co-founder and chairman said that he would be open to an offer.
Google, Yahoo, and News Corp's MySpace announced on Tuesday that they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a nonprofit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kickstarted last year to promote a universal standard for developer applications on social networking sites.
Social-networking sites will enlist 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep attracting new users until at least 2009, according to an analyst report. But investors are still wary -- and for good reason
At this week's South By Southwest Interactive Festival, Facebook founder and world's youngest rich list entrant, Mark Zuckerberg, sat down with Caroline McCarthy of ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com to talk about PayPal, pestering applications and press hysteria.
Microsoft has jumped on the Web 2.0 express with the launch of an add-on for SharePoint server that enables businesses to make use of popular "community" collaboration features such as wikis and blogs.
By allowing people both in and outside of companies to connect with each other, and share information over the network, the pace of business operations will escalate.
There are plenty of popular strategies for reducing enterprise storage usage, but up until now I've never heard the usage of Facebook or instant messaging listed amongst them -- but there's a first time for everything.
Despite the fact that a study out this month has shown that the cancer risk from mobiles is more hot air than anything, how many people would be willing to put a base station in their home?
Finally, after months of the Clintons posting Sopranos-style satires and Obama Girl grabbing the headlines during the American presidential race, Australian politicians have switched on to the power of the Internet.
These days, you're just as likely to see high-technology surfboard designers wearing board shorts to work as Star Trek T-shirts.
Since lifting its university-only restrictions in September 2006, Facebook has become the poster child for social networks and attracted more than 65 million users. But will it survive 'the next big thing'?
Lee Siegel is a cultural critic who has written for The New York Times, Slate and The Nation. However, he is perhaps best known for what happened in 2006 when writing for The New Republic.
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
IBM's Grady Booch says developers can no longer just dash off code without thinking about the larger implications.
Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technical operations at LinkedIn talks about facilitating online communications between its 17 million business professionals. He also discusses his past experience building and scaling data centres at Google and how it differs from his new role.
IBM last week launched a public beta of its Lotus Notes and Domino 8 e-mail and collaboration software.
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