Adopting a Web 2.0 Mindset: Walk Before You Wiki Companies have been scrambling to figure out how to leverage Web. 2.0 applications, but are they doing so for all the wrong reasons? With all the buzz about blogs, wikis, widgets, ... continues
Navigating the Seven Cs to Relevance Think of it: There are many businesses that offer similar products or services. Prospective customers can purchase goods or services from any competitor, literally anywhere in the ... continues
eBay To Drop 1,000 Employees, Buy Two Companies (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - One of the Internet's long-running success stories, global auction operator eBay, announced Monday that it is laying off 10 percent of its workforce in the coming week... continues
Sector Snap: Internet stocks slide with market (AP) AP - Shares of major Web companies dropped sharply Monday amid a massive market sell-off that sent the Dow skidding below 10,000 for the first time in four years.
Suit against magazine-sharing site settled (CNET) CNET - Just months after its launch, the magazine-sharing Web site Mygazines.com is largely cutting back on the free content it offers, after reaching a settlement agreement in a s... continues
Analyst: Half of 'social media campaigns' will flop (CNET) CNET - Adam Sarner, an analyst with market research firm Gartner, has projected that over 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies with Web sites will have undertaken some kind of onli... continues
Ask.com hopes to make search faster, more relevant (AP) AP - Assuming your company's name isn't a verb synonymous with looking things up online, how do you get Web surfers to not just try your search engine, but also frequent it?
EBay buys Bill Me Later for $945 million (AP) AP - EBay Inc. did a little shopping of its own on Monday, saying it would pay $1.34 billion for online payments site Bill Me Later and two Danish classified ad Web sites.
Europeans sought over hack attack The FBI is seeking a British man and his German accomplice over attacks on web shops selling satellite TV equipment.
Music downloads avoid rate hike A veiled threat to shut Apple's iTunes store recedes as a row over royalty rates is resolved.
'Internet safety' may be an oxymoron Reports on clickjacking, which enables a PC to get infected when a user clicks on a disguised Web link, point out that when it comes to Web browsing, there is no such thing as "security."
Derek Featherstone: Accessibility is More Than Compliance Derek Featherstone has forged a name for himself as an author, speaker, and web accessibility expert. In this interview, he explains to SitePoint's Kevin Yank what it means to deve... continues
China 'spying on Skype messages' Chinese officials are censoring messages sent through the internet service Skype, Canadian researchers say.
TCP flaws puts Web sites at risk Researchers testing a port scanner discover multiple flaws within the TCP stack that could create denial-of-service attacks under controlled circumstances.
To encrypt or not? That is the question Encryption hasn't become the privacy panacea it was promised to be in the 1990s for e-mail, but it's making headway on hard drives. Here's a look at why communications encryption i... continues
Digg's Designer Divulges Design Details Whilst at the Web Directions South conference, Matt got the opportunity to chat with the talented designer behind popular web sites Digg and Pownce, Daniel Burka. The interview rev... continues
Google 'Goliath' Microsoft says Microsoft's boss says his firm is a "David" to Google's "Goliath" after its failure to grasp the importance of internet search.
Learn Adobe AIR, Part III: Beyond the Browser In this tutorial, the third in Akash's series on learning Adobe AIR, you'll see how to convert your own web application to a nifty desktop application. Along the way, you'll also l... continues
Map Your OpenSocial Data Using Flex The emerging OpenSocial standard is a powerful new API for creating exciting new mashups. In this tutorial, Jack shows how to mix Google Maps, Flickr, and OpenSocial using Adobe Fl... continues
