Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) ended talks as the Web
pioneer agreed to let archrival Google Inc (GOOG.O) sell search ads
on its site, the companies said on Thursday.
Google Health, launched in beta on Monday, is a personal health
records aggregator that can provide users with online access to their
own medical information culled from several sources. Partners include
Walgreens, CVS and Medco. Google says targeted ads will not be
involved in the system, but privacy concerns remain.
These days it seems like anyone with an idea and some time can crank
out a Web 2.0 startup, be it a service, community, one-trick-pony or
ambiguously named whichamadinger. It also seems like many of these
startups could use some guidance to help them find th More
The global market for Mobile Web 2.0 applications will soar to
US$22.4-billion by 2013, according to Juniper Research. That's up from
a present value of about US$5-billion.
Web 2.0 refers to the ability of Internet users to generate
web-based content. Examples would be blogs and social networking
sites, such as Facebook. The enormous growth forecast by Juniper flows
from the increasing ability of users to generate such web content
using cell phones and mobile devices More
Approximately 80 percent of people who watched videos on the Web
site of broadcaster ABC (through the company's player) could remember
the sponsor/advertiser of the program, said Brad Davis, senior vice
president of online media sales and marketing for the Walt Disney
Internet Group, during a presentation at the Digital Living Room
conference taking place here. The study was commissioned by Walt
Disney Internet Group and ABC. (Walt Disney is the parent company of
ABC.)
Marcello Bastéa-Forte has developed OnionML, a layout
template language that uses server side JavaScript with Rhino and E4X
on the back end.
The high-level goal of the template engine is to be something with
utility not unlike CSS, but for intended layout and composition. The
actual functionality is similar to XSLT, but with the design goal of
being simple and easily extensible.
One of the hottest topics in the online world in the last couple of
years has been the growth of social networking services such as
Facebook and MySpace, as well as the addition of a social element to
existing user experiences. Despite riding several waves of hype,
it's now clear that the social networking space will only get hotter
in 2008 accor More
