Melody Debuts as Movable Type Forks From the blogs: The popular blog platform's open source version gets some friendly competition. But are problems ahead?(June 24, 2009)
Top Level Domains Get .eco Friendly Domains could one day do more than just serve Web pages, they could actually help save the planet.
(June 24, 2009)
Twitter a Boon for Digital Music Sales? New study finds Twitter users buy 77 percent more digital music than their non-tweeting counterparts.(June 23, 2009)
City Wants Job Seekers' Facebook Passwords From the blogs: A report says Bozeman, Montana, is asking job applicants to hand over their login credentials to social sites.(June 18, 2009)
YouTube Forces Microsoft to Rethink Soapbox All but conceding that its Soapbox viral video site has not made headway against the video giant, Microsoft may rejigger its YouTube competitor, or worse.
(June 17, 2009)
Twitter, NTT Avoid Cutting Off Iran Protests As protests in Iran continue, Twitter and its Web host adjusted to current events, making this just the latest intersection between social media and government.(June 16, 2009)
Could Twitter Top Google? Twitter can deliver more traffic and better traffic than any search engine, at least according to backer and venture capitalist Fred Wilson.(June 16, 2009)
Facebook Surges Past MySpace in U.S. On opposite trajectories, Facebook and MySpace switch places on comScore's rankings of most popular domestic social networks.(June 16, 2009)
Facebook's Land Grab Off and Running UPDATED: Personalized URL sign-up opens with millions of registrations and few problems, for now.(June 15, 2009)
Army, CIA Warming Up to Web 2.0 Officials say top-down organizations are beginning to embrace collaborative, social media technologies, slowly.(June 12, 2009)
Internet Giving Rise to Peer-to-Peer Healthcare New research from Pew's Internet and American Life Project highlights the increasing role of the collaborative Web in finding medical and health information.(June 12, 2009)
Facebook Users to Get Personalized URLs Facebook's new personalized usernames and URLs could be a boost to online marketers, but is it a lost opportunity for the social networking site?(June 10, 2009)
Yahoo as App Store? The Internet giant is adding Web apps at a rapid clip.(June 5, 2009)
iPhone Triggers 'App Economy' Google board member Ram Shriram says the iPhone App Store and similar online store fronts represent a huge change for developers.(June 4, 2009)
Companies Need Social Media All-Stars Forget e-mail blasts and company Web sites; the future is in employees gaining a following on social media networks like Twitter.(June 4, 2009)
Facebook Sees Profits in New Payment System As Facebook continues to both grow and avoid profitability, can the social networking site make money by employing a site-wide e-commerce platform?(June 4, 2009)
