At one of the world's biggest gatherings of Web culture, a 28-year-old executive talks about landing a tech job by sending a CEO "bikini shots" from a "nudie calendar" he created.
In the Silicon Valley hierarchy, coders have always ruled the roost, but right now there's a different skill set on the industry's most-wanted list: designers.
Facebook's Ticker, the fast-scrolling tote board of pretty much everything your friends are doing, is ready to start selling you stuff.
Facebook's 750 million members are livid about the flurry of changes the site rolled out this week. But another key community -- Facebook's network of third-party developers -- is taking a wait-and-see approach.
Acquisitions were among the most popular topics of conversation on StockTwits Friday, with Petrohawk Energy and Clorox in the spotlight.
At first, everyone thought it was Facebook.
Tech and media companies are in a race to sap the serendipity from news consumption and distill readers' interests into an algorithm.
Reddit, the community news sharing site, has now joined the billion-page-per-month club, having served up some 1,000,404,480 pages to almost 14 million unique visitors in January, as measured by Google Analytics.
Digg has launched an overhaul and redesign of the struggling social media service in an attempt to bring users back and regain some momentum.
What's the best way to find great links on the web? Is it algorithmic search engines like Google, people-powered decision-making, or a combination of both?
Social gaming giant Zynga has acquired Flock, an early pioneer in creating a social Web browser.
In the spring of this year, the "Facebook alternative" Diaspora achieved extensive media coverage -- including an article in the New York Times -- and raised tens of thousands of dollars in funding from online donors.
Myspace this week began rolling out a redesign that aspires to rekindle the fortunes of the once-dominant social network. The overhaul -- expected to be complete by the end of November -- also comes with a new logo and a subtle rebranding from "MySpace" to "Myspace."
Bebo, Etsy and Kijiji sound more like baby's first words than the names of tech companies.
Social news site Digg this week launched a major new version that seeks to change the way we consume news radically.
Twitter unleashed an official "tweet button" today. Given that third parties have provided "retweet buttons" for more than a year, will the official buttons have any impact on the way we share content online?
If online reports are to be believed, Google could be cooking up a rival for Facebook -- and bringing the maker of popular social games like "FarmVille" with them.
The privacy issues that have been hounding Facebook may be coming to a head.
It's been a long time since it got in the way of the World Series, but the threat of seismic tumult still hangs over Silicon Valley. When earthquakes elsewhere in the world dominate the news, people get a little more sensitive to their own vulnerability in the Bay Area. The ground might really have just given a twitch. Is it moving?
Social voting site Digg this week unveiled plans to become a hub for sharing links on the Web. If your friends are sharing media on Facebook, Twitter and other sites, Digg wants to provide a personalized home page that filters the Web based on your friends' activities. These new features will be previewed in the coming weeks.
The popular news-sharing site Digg is getting an overhaul that will personalize results, dramatically expand content and, most importantly, make the site "wicked fast," according to its makers.
The popular news-sharing site Digg is getting an overhaul that will personalize results, dramatically expand content and, most importantly, make the site "wicked fast," according to its makers.
Twitter this week endured a number of "phishing" attacks, in which some users unwittingly gave out their passwords to malicious sites. Haven't we all learned to keep our passwords to ourselves, you ask? Perhaps. But the truth is we're all vulnerable to social engineering, and two major Web trends are creating further confusion for new Internet users.
The stereotypical library is dying -- and it's taking its shushing ladies, dank smell and endless shelves of books with it.
Some Web designers are staging an online revolt against an old version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, which they say is hampering the ability of the Web to move forward in a cool and interactive way.
Digg, the once-hot social news website, has become the middle child of the premiere web 2.0 companies.
As an editor, I should have a hard time writing a column in praise of Digg.com. After all, Digg wants to make jobs like mine redundant. Its news aggregation site determines which stories make the grade based not on the whims of mandarins like me but on votes from its 35 million users (whose numbers are growing by 20,000 a month).
It's hard for an editor to ignore an idea that hundreds of readers have voted for.
In an exclusive CNN.com interview, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger answers questions voted on by Digg.com and iReport members.
Digg Inc., an Internet startup that specializes in rating news stories, is making a little news of its own with a $28.7 million round of financing
So what is Congress doing, anyway? That was a common refrain in a handful of questions posed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the first Digg Dialogg interview Wednesday night.
Digg CEO Jay Adelson asks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi questions sent by iReporters and selected by the Digg community.
Yahoo!'s new social-news site promises to prevent the obvious cheating that happens on sites like Digg and Reddit
FSB: The personal touchupdated: Tue Nov 06 2007 09:00:00
A new wave of web 2.0 software geeks believe in the former and are offering services in which experts recommend the best sites based on search terms the user provides. In addition to ChaCha's network of human guides (chacha.com), Mahalo (mahalo.com) creates hand-edited results pages for the most popular terms (Britney Spears was an early target). Eurekster (eurekster.com) allows users to build custom search portals that tap the expertise of online communities.
Business 2.0: Ask Business 2.0updated: Fri Oct 19 2007 12:13:00
Q. My website, which aggregates deals on travel and electronics, isn't getting much traffic from Google AdWords. How do I market my site and generate traffic on a small budget? - Kamlesh Patel, Director, Grab2travel.com
Britney Spears is not doing well with judges lately.
How many people visited Yahoo in June? About 133 million in the U.S., says ComScore, a web measurement company. No, says its chief rival, Nielsen//NetRatings, it was 108 million. The difference - 25 million people - is hardly a rounding error. It's larger than the population of Texas.
Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has reached an agreement to be the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on Digg.com, a popular Web site that lets readers recommend online articles to others.
Digg.com, one of the most popular sites on the Web, is bracing for a possible legal battle over refusing to remove stories containing a single 32-digit code that lets people crack HD-DVD copyright protection.
"Letting users control your site can be terrifying at first," said Kevin Rose, the cofounder of popular news-aggregator site, Digg, told Business 2.0 Magazine recently.
When word of a whites-only scholarship at Boston University hit the media last fall--drawing coverage from bloggers and biggies like ABC alike--Daniel Kovach smelled opportunity. His goal: to boost...
Business 2.0: The Next Netupdated: Thu Mar 01 2007 00:01:00
Twelve months have passed since we introduced the first Next Net 25—our picks for the Web 2.0 wannabes most likely to break out of the pack. The moment seemed propitious: Hardware was cheap, broadb...
Business 2.0: 25 startups to watchupdated: Wed Feb 21 2007 20:41:00
Twelve months have passed since we introduced the first Next Net 25 - our picks for the Web 2.0 wannabes most likely to break out of the pack. The moment seemed propitious: Hardware was cheap, broadband was ubiquitous, software was open-source, and venture capitalists were once again flooding Silicon Valley with ready cash.
IDEA NO. 29 Online businesses can easily--and cheaply--target international markets from anywhere.
Banker David Hannum, and not P.T. Barnum as widely believed, once said that "there's a sucker born every minute." That axiom may yet prove true for major media companies in the coming months.
The editors have identified the Best business ideas in the world, which will appear here in a series throughout the next month. Check back daily for updates.
Looking to spot the next MySpace? Consider Digg.com, a "social news" site caught up just now in a scrappy battle with AOL. "Social news," you ask?
Business 2.0: Digging Up the Newsupdated: Sat Apr 01 2006 00:01:00
When I sat down with Kevin Rose in his loft-style offices south of Market Street in San Francisco, I must admit I felt a tingle of anticipation. It wasn't just that Rose was a founder of Digg.com, ...
When I sat down with Kevin Rose in his loft-style offices south of Market Street in San Francisco, I must admit I felt a tingle of anticipation. It wasn't just that Rose was a founder of Digg.com, the "social news" website whose remarkable growth has made it one of the most buzzed-about startups around. Nor was it that Digg had reeled in a $2.8 million round of financing from an A-list assortment of investors including Greylock Partners, Omidyar Network, and Marc Andreessen. No, what set my pulse racing was the pair of labels attached to Rose in the press release announcing the financing: "media visionary" and "technology visionary." I mean, how often do you get to meet the next Nicholas Negroponte?
Business 2.0: Mashups and filtersupdated: Wed Mar 01 2006 15:58:00
As we move toward the Next Net, some of the most useful sites will be those that either help mash up -- meaning mix and match -- content from other parts of the Web or act as a filter for the overwhelming mountains of information now at people's fingertips.
Business 2.0: Social mediaupdated: Wed Mar 01 2006 09:27:00
The new culture on the Web is all about consumer creation; it's composed of things like the nearly 30 million blogs out there and the 70 million photos available on Flickr. With a click of the mouse, anyone can be a journalist, a photographer, or a DJ. The audience--that 1 billion-plus throng linked by the Web--itself is creating a new type of social media.
Business 2.0: Social Mediaupdated: Tue Feb 28 2006 17:07:00
The new culture on the Web is all about consumer creation; it's composed of things like the nearly 30 million blogs out there and the 70 million photos available on Flickr. With a click of the mous...
You've come up with a world-changing idea, or at least an industry-changing idea. You have a business plan. Maybe you've even written some code or built a prototype. Now all you need is those few thousand bucks--or a few tens or hundreds of thousands of bucks--to get your new venture up and running. All that stands between you and your startup, in other words, is an angel.
Business 2.0: Mashups and Filtersupdated: Tue Feb 28 2006 08:30:00
As we move toward the Next Net, some of the most useful sites will be those that either help "mash up"--meaning mix and match--content from other parts of the Web or act as a filter for the overwhe...
Paul Johnston is deeply grateful to Marc Benioff. Johnston's Seattle-based startup, Entellium, has won hundreds of contracts against Benioff's Salesforce.com and other competitors since it moved fr...
Business 2.0: Does Yahoo dig Digg?updated: Thu Jan 26 2006 11:00:00
There seems to be a pattern here: Website's traffic takes off, Yahoo buys website. Yahoo's rumored acquisition of Digg, a popular news website where readers rate articles, would, if if happens, make it the fourth social-media startup the Internet portal has acquired in less than a year in an effort to compete with Google. Digg co-founder Kevin Rose's non-denial denial : We are focused on features, not selling the company.
Pierre Omidyar, 38, is one of the world's richest idealists. With stock in eBay worth $8.4 billion, the founder of the auction giant and his wife, Pam, are starting to give money away. In early Nov...
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