Web 2.0 Conference News

Whether online content should be free or paid has been one of the biggest debates in this 2009 that is coming to an end.

In 2005, Tim O'Reilly published a seminal article - What Is Web 2.0 - in which he provided a definition for the term Web 2.0, which had gained a huge momentum during the previous year since the first edition of the Web 2.0 Conference in October 2004.

Recently, I saw a very interesting chart from the Morgan Stanley team, including Mary Meeker, Scott Devitt and Liang Wu , during a presentation on Web 2.0. The data they gather is top notch and the discussion about the macroeconomic trends and their impact on our lifestyle is not to be overlooked.

As the noughties come to a close, we take a look at the biggest technology stories of the decade - and how the Guardian reported them at the time With just a few days to go until Christmas, we're continuing our countdown of the technology stories of the decade - and how the Guardian reported them.

Key News * Sony Ericsson Launches an Android Web Apps development SDK for building Mobile Web Apps along with Android Wrappers as needed.

I was reminded of the entry and prompted to 'recycle' it - despite its age - when I read the following sentence in a recent blog entry by Nicholas Carr "Although a network can be a means of diffusing power, it can also be a means of concentrating it".] I find Web 2.0 increasingly confusing as a label; no surprise there.

Even as the Tiger Woods story has evolved from one about a sporting hero injured in a late-night car crash to a far more tawdry tale of booze, drugs, porn stars, nudie pics, massive infidelity and millions in hush money, its themes and symbols have been instantly appropriated and re-purposed for all kinds of pop-cultural fun.

Last week leading Web-development firm, MediaTier Ltd., announced the launch of its newest online venture: AceHoyle.com : . Part casino portal, part Noir Comic series, the groundbreaking Web site offers visitors engaging content and an array of multimedia and Web 2.0 features.

A tremor shook the internet industry when Google announced the AdMob acquisition.

Oct. 2009: Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle answer the question of "What's next for Web 2.0?" in Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On .

The untimely death earlier this year of Rajeev Motwani, the Stanford professor who had advised Google's co-founders, unleashed an astonishing wave of tributes to this classic Influencer.

Salesforce.com's soon-to-be-launched Chatter application will help firms meet their collaboration needs, and is aimed at becoming the "Facebook for the enterprise", according to chief executive Marc Benioff.

Google's new real-time search interface automatically updates search results for hot topics like Tiger Woods, without requiring a browser refresh.

Google announced their public DNS server today. I'm using it right now. There's been a bunch of speculation as to why Google is offering this service for free but the reason is pretty simple: they want to speed up people's Google search results.

NVIDIA RealityServer a new cloud computing platform for running 3D web applications is shipping today.

Continuing its stormy courtship of online news publishers, Google is offering news sites more control over how their content can be accessed.

ON THE GO: Annette Tonti, CEO of MoFuse, a company helping others create mobile Web sites.

Let's say you're an investor who has been following Hewlett-Packard for ages. The company's slowing printer sales concerns you, largely because you think this may be a long-term issue rather than a short-term blip.

Web 2.0, a concept created by Tim O'Reilly in 2005 , is useful. But it's only a concept, not a technology.

Job hunting is made a bit easier in the digital age, not only by the growing number of employment websites, but also by digital tools that can help in everything from creating a resume to developing a job-search network.