http://www.eweek.com Web Services Web 20 and SOA - RSS Feeds en-us Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:45:34 -0500 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:45:34 -0500 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:07:58 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Reframe-It-Claims-Google-Sidewiki-Copies-its-Web-Annotation-Service-125355/?kc=rss - What do you do when you're a small startup that releases a Web application, only to have something strikingly similar come along from a large, established vendor? That's the position Reframe It found itself in when Google launched its Sidewiki Web annotation service Sept. 23. Sidewiki is a brows...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Reframe-It-Claims-Google-Sidewiki-Copies-its-Web-Annotation-Service-125355/?kc=rss Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:21:18 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Twitter-Begins-its-Retweet-Stymies-Spammers-on-Trends-557226/?kc=rss - Twitter Nov. 5 began the slow rollout of its retweet button and said it is going tighten up its trend technology, the latter a move to stymie spammers. The retweet button does what many Twitter users have already seen from other services such as TweetMeme: It blasts out tweets users are fond of ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Twitter-Begins-its-Retweet-Stymies-Spammers-on-Trends-557226/?kc=rss Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:52:14 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/eWEEK-at-25-The-Web-Changed-Everything-512298/?kc=rss - Sixteen years ago, I started out as the newest analyst at what was then called PC Week Labs. Most of the important technologies of the day (such as PCs, office suites, client/server networking and printers) were being covered by the more senior and experienced analysts. They “saddled” me with a t...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/eWEEK-at-25-The-Web-Changed-Everything-512298/?kc=rss Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:03:08 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/LABS-GALLERY-SeaMonkey-20-Adds-New-Firefox-Capabilities-to-the-Old-Mozilla-Suite-789656/?kc=rss - ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/LABS-GALLERY-SeaMonkey-20-Adds-New-Firefox-Capabilities-to-the-Old-Mozilla-Suite-789656/?kc=rss Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:45:26 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Google-Friend-Connect-Features-Invite-Social-Discovery-472617/?kc=rss - Google's Friend Connect service now makes it easier for Website visitors to meet other people through Friend Connected destinations, while enabling site owners to make money by serving AdSense ads. Leveraging its own OpenSocial APIs, Google launched Friend Connect in May 2008. Website operator...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Google-Friend-Connect-Features-Invite-Social-Discovery-472617/?kc=rss Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:30:06 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/How-Twitter-Lists-Brings-Back-Humancurated-Directories-and-Judges-Influence-825690/?kc=rss - When Twitter Lists began rolling out to the bulk of the microblog service's 60 million users the week of Oct. 26, eWEEK opined about the impact of the feature, which lets users group Twitter contacts into specific lists. Because other users can view the lists of those they are following and sub...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/How-Twitter-Lists-Brings-Back-Humancurated-Directories-and-Judges-Influence-825690/?kc=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:53:36 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Twitter-Lists-Beta-Goes-Live-For-More-Users-597323/?kc=rss - Twitter Lists, a new feature that lets users lump Twitter contacts into various groups, went live as a beta to more users this week and should be available to everyone soon. It's fairly self-explanatory to seasoned Web services users, but Twitter doesn't explicitly provide step-by-step instructi...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Twitter-Lists-Beta-Goes-Live-For-More-Users-597323/?kc=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:05:38 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Opera-10-Still-an-Innovative-Web-Browser/?kc=rss - Video Content....]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Opera-10-Still-an-Innovative-Web-Browser/?kc=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:14:16 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Opera-CEO-Browser-Ballot-is-Good-for-Consumers-479955/?kc=rss - LONDON Jon Tetzchner has led Opera in many battles. Currently, the CEO of Opera Software is leading the company's fight in the European Commission antitrust courts against Microsoft, claiming the software giant illegally bundles its Internet Explorer browser with the Windows operating system. Th...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Opera-CEO-Browser-Ballot-is-Good-for-Consumers-479955/?kc=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:12:33 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Facebook-Becomes-Erstwhile-Digg-Destroyer-With-Live-Share-Counter-138890/?kc=rss - Facebook is going after social sharing site Digg, launching a live counter for its content Share button to display how many times a piece of content has been shared on the Web. Launched three years ago, the Share button is one of the site's older Facebook Connect features. Website publishers ins...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Facebook-Becomes-Erstwhile-Digg-Destroyer-With-Live-Share-Counter-138890/?kc=rss Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:02:44 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Facebook-Friends-Say-Homepage-Changes-Are-Confusing-Annoying-661093/?kc=rss - Facebook has something of a revolt on its hand after altering the homepage to let users toggle back and forth between a regular News Feed and a Live Feed Oct. 23. The News Feed aims to provide info about what might be of interest to users, while the Live Feed shows users what is happening now. ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Facebook-Friends-Say-Homepage-Changes-Are-Confusing-Annoying-661093/?kc=rss Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:26:15 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Facebook-Offers-Realtime-Highlight-Reel-News-Feed-For-The-Homepage-298115/?kc=rss - Facebook Oct. 23 delivered the previously reported home page changes, offering users a highlight reel view of the most interesting activity that's happened in the last day and a real-time view that shows users what is happening now. Facebook began offering the real-time feed in th...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Facebook-Offers-Realtime-Highlight-Reel-News-Feed-For-The-Homepage-298115/?kc=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:07:24 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Twitter-CEO-Evan-Williams-Vaguely-Discusses-Revenue-Model-at-Web-20-Summit-750746/?kc=rss - SAN FRANCISCO Twitter CEO Evan Williams deftly maneuvered around questions about what Twitter's revenue model will ultimately be in a conversation at the Web 2.0 Summit that failed to live up to expectations. Web 2.0 Summit co-host John Battelle tried to crack the nut that is Twitter's plan to mak...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Twitter-CEO-Evan-Williams-Vaguely-Discusses-Revenue-Model-at-Web-20-Summit-750746/?kc=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:51:31 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Small-Businesses-Use-Facebook-Twitter-For-Promotion-634033/?kc=rss - The high-tech world already knows that marketing and sales workers from large companies like Dell and PepsiCo are using Twitter to promote products. Their businesses may be strikingly different, but they are commonly linked by the viral, worldwide word of mouth Twitter affords them. Few people, th...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Small-Businesses-Use-Facebook-Twitter-For-Promotion-634033/?kc=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:44:42 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Facebook-Follows-Twitter-Lists-By-Freshening-Groups-106033/?kc=rss - Fresh off the news that Twitter is rolling out its Lists feature to more users, Facebook Oct. 19 revamped its Facebook Groups section for letting people organize around a common interest. To this point, activities in the 45 million Facebook Groups have been relegated to the group page, making it h...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Facebook-Follows-Twitter-Lists-By-Freshening-Groups-106033/?kc=rss