The fact that the spectacular expansion of internet activity has continued, and even accelerated through the financial crisis shows that the global exchange of information does not depend, in any important way, on the global financial sector.
NSW MP and Parliamentary Secretary for Transport Penny Sharpe has started the government 2.0 ball rolling in NSW, launching an event called NSWsphere modelled on Senator Kate Lundy's successful Public Sphere event in Canberra.
The Federal Government today launched a taskforce to investigate web 2.0's ability to make government more transparent and increase community engagement.
Australian use of the Twitter micro-blogging service hit an all-time high for the week ending 10 January 2009, as a number of factors contributed to its growth.
Carol Bartz, Autodesk's former executive chairman, has replaced Jerry Yang as Yahoo's chief executive.
With its new taskforce, the government has got straight back on the web 2.0 horse after taking a nasty fall last year with Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Finance Minister Lindsey Tanner's blogging trial, but how long will it stay on?
Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector.
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.
StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0.
One of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes.
Sydney developer Lars Rasmussen has done it again. Check out the first screenshots of Wave, Google's new centralised collaboration tool that mashes together emails, instant messaging and wiki-style communication into one open-sourced service.
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.
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.
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We sat down with security analyst Andrew Walls at Gartner ITExpo and asked him how Web 2.0 affects application security. He talked to us about how traditional desktop security measures are falling short in a Web 2.0 world and how developers need to take more personal responsibility for the security of their code.
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.
Charlene Li, founder of the Altimeter Group, talks about how Silicon Valley will be affected by the current economic downturn. She says that Web 2.0 companies will face a scarcity of resources and more hardship, and will need to buckle down and focus on new innovations, collaboration, and getting things done.
Suncorp CIO Jeff Smith talks about what the biggest surprise has been for him with Web 2.0-style technologies.
CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Stephen Shankland discuss the upcoming Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Could a second mobile SDK be released? Or maybe the winner of the Android developer contest?
Microsoft has learned some very serious lessons when it comes to complying with Web standards after taking heavy criticism from the industry and, more importantly, a beating in the browser market share.
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