Microsoft Details Web 2.0 Progress
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday detailed his company's progress on Web 2.0, saying the company had launched Popfly and the extension of several other Live Services.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c41819) has announced the addition of The 2005 Web 2.0 Conference Distilled to their offering.
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BBC Click reports on the internet phase, Web 2.0, which is reaching mobile handsets.
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InfoWorld - With an upgrade to its Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite being released Monday, Nexaweb will focus on visual capabilities for building mashups.
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Details of a new Microsoft Web analytics tool are available online.
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Oracle has starting shipping a suite of tools for linking Web 2.0 apps with data sources and business processes.
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November 16, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Software giant Microsoft  announced on Tuesday that it has released version 3.0 of Microsoft Solutions for Windows-based Hosting, a management platform that includes tools for handling
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Privacy may soon become a much bigger deal to the Web 2.0 world.That&#39;s because Web 2.0&#39;s ability to mash up components from different Web sites into one customized user experience can also lead to a disconnect between the privacy users expect and what they actually receive, according to Jonathan Pincus, general manager of strategy development with Microsoft&#39;s Online Services Group. &quot;In the Web 2.0 world, one of the really interesting changes is privacy becomes as important an issue as security,&quot; he said in a recent interview.&quot;Because there&#39;s so much more information out there and the lines of sharing it get so much blurrier,&quot; he added, &quot;people usually assume there are a lot more privacy guarantees then there actually are.&quot;Pincus predicted that this misplaced sense of privacy may ultimately be exposed in the most prominent of public policy forums: the tabloid press. &quot;At some point soon there&#39;s going to be some kind of major court case or high-profile divorce in which some kind of information from a social-networking site gets used as a key piece of evidence,&quot; he said. &quot;Sort of like what happened with Kobe Bryant and the phone records being available. People were kind of surprised, &#39;Oh they can get at the phone information?&#39; Stuff like that gives people a very different viewpoint on privacy.&quot;In 2004, a judge granted Bryant&#39;s lawyers access to text message records of a woman who had accused the Los Angeles Lakers basketball star of rape. The charges against Bryant were later dropped.Microsoft has been trying to promote itself as a leader in the online privacy space in recent months. On Tuesday, the company released data showing that attackers are increasingly targeting personal information.In the first six months of 2007, Microsoft counted 31.6 million phishing scams, a jump of 150 percent from the six months prior. The company&#39;s Security Intelligence Report also tracked a 500 percent increase in Trojan downloaders, which are malicious programs used to install other malware on victim&#39;s systems.&quot;As the security of the operating system improves, we are seeing cybercriminals becoming more sophisticated, diverse, and targeted in their methods of stealing personal information,&quot; Microsoft said in a statement on the report. &quot;Personal information is the currency of crime, and malicious attackers are targeting it to make their cyberattacks and other scams more authentic, credible, and successful, and to make a profit.&quot;However, one security researcher said that phishers may now be moving beyond ID theft and looking to even more lucrative areas, such as pump-and-dump stock scams. In these scams, criminals flood inboxes with e-mails promoting penny stocks and then sell shares when the stock price rises.&quot;Everything I&#39;ve read and seen suggests that these attacks may be successful in stealing information but that it is difficult for the attackers to turn that information into revenue,&quot; said Brandon Enright, a network security analyst at the University of California, San Diego, in an e-mail interview on&#160;Tuesday. &quot;The [Microsoft] study didn&#39;t cover pump and dump at all. I suspect if it had, they would have pump-and-dump scams growing much more rapidly than 150 percent over the previous 6 to 12 months.&quot;Two of the most organized online criminal groups -- the creators of the Rustock and&#160;Storm&#160;malware -- have turned to pump-and-dump scams, he added. &quot;They could execute basically any attack they wanted. They chose pump and dump. That says a lot about how lucrative the various attacks are.&quot;
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Corporate IT will finally widely embrace Web 2.0 technologies in 2008, according to Forrester Research.
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(InfoWorld) - As Web 2.0 technologies continue seeping into business systems, a new generation of corporate users is starting to gain access to the collaboration capabilities they are demanding from IT, according to attendees at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco this week. But before use of the tools spreads too far, they noted, companies must strike a balance between the Web 2.0 wants of users and the needs of corporate IT. The conference, described as a collective experiment by its long list of sponsors, was organized in two months using the online productivity and collaboration tools that are the focus of the event, organizers said. Jonathan Rochelle, product manager of Google's spreadsheet product, predicted that real-time collaboration capabilities, as provided in the Google Docs & Spreadsheets tool set, will become a key part of the next generation of office tools. Employees are increasingly demanding tools that will let them collaborate online when creating documents, he noted. "The consumer expectation [for Web 2.0 tools] is being brought to the workplace," he said. "Work groups are taking the product in because they like working with it, and they are more productive." Indeed, within Google itself, workers are now derided when they attach documents to e-mail instead of using the online editing tool in Google Docs, he noted. The traditional route is now viewed as a drain on productivity, he added. Richard McAniff, corporate vice president of Microsoft Office, also predicted that Web 2.0 tools will become interwoven into corporate life over the next few years. For example, combining a social networking tool like Facebook with productivity tools could "really change the way people do work," he noted. "We really have to look at ... how we can have a complete game changer in terms of what the workforce is really doing," he said. Still, companies have to reconcile the demand of its employees for the new tools with the inevitable productivity bumps that come when new technologies like Web 2.0 tools are added in the workplace, he added. "What people want on the desktop is one thing, [and] what IT might want is something else," he said. "You have to strike a balance between the two." Danny Kolke, founder and CTO of Etelos Systems, a provider of hosted Web applications, noted that many IT organizations are actually under assault by end-users who are demanding Office 2.0 features and tools. "The reason I use Spreadsheets in Google ... is because I know I can create it and share it easily," Kolke said. "IT comes along and says, 'We need control over this data.' A lot of [IT] organizations are defending their turf right now because they are get assaulted. The demand [for Web 2.0 tools] is there." The speed in which these Web 2.0 technologies are being developed -- and then moving into the enterprise -- is increasing the strife between IT and users, he added. "The market wants [office 2.0 tools] before we're ready to deliver it in many cases," he said. "We can't keep up with the demand. If you listen to the market and innovate for what they are hoping for you don't have to sell your product."
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Pay to play Serena Software has laid out a roadmap founded on Web 2.0 representing the software industry's latest attempt to chip away at Microsoft's Office development base.â¦
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Tonight's Iowa caucus will be the first indication of whether candidates' Web 2.0 efforts are working.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft plans to release theÂ second Community Technology Preview (CTP) of its Astoria Web data services technology around Christmas and envisions Astoria's use in a variety of Web application platforms. The Astoria project is focused on merging Web technologies and concepts with the Microsoft Data Platform to provide infrastructure for Internet applications. Currently available in a first CTP, Astoria could bolster data access in AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript),Â Microsoft Silverlight, and Adobe Flash applications, said David Wright, Microsoft architect evangelist. Astoria also could be used for stateful mashups, he added. Wright spoke about Astoria at the AJAXWorld conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on Monday. Astoria is intended to build what Microsoft calls cloud data services.Â  "We're very loosely defining a cloud data service for the purposes of this as someone's data that lives on the Internet at some publicly accessible location that is going to be accessible by any number of people who may or may not be using the same client technologies," Wright said.Â  "The key point to take away from something like thisÂ is it's all done from the UI itself," and little has to be done on the server side to expose data, Wright said. Astoria features an entity data model. Developers can provide generic access to a database they already have.Â  Eventually, Astoria is to become part of the planned Visual Studio 2008 development platform, which has been codenamed "Orcas."Â  Earlier in the day, Oracle's Ted Farrell, chief architect and vice president for tools and middleware, talked about how collaboration concepts popular in consumer-oriented Web 2.0 applications also can be useful in the enterprise.Â  Web 2.0 had various definitions, including empowerment, Farrell said. "I think a lot of people view Web 2.0 as sticking it to the man," with users owning the data and posting material when told they cannot, Farrell said.Â  "In the enterprise space, collaboration and information-sharing is key," and Web 2.0 will bring that to the enterprise, he said. But in the enterprise, authority does in fact matter. "The users don't own the data," he said. One way Oracle is helping customers adopt Web 2.0 is through use of frameworks. These UI frameworks help build out Web 2.0 applications. Oracle has standardized onÂ JavaServer Faces because it separates the component from the way it is rendered, he said.Â  Through frameworks, developers can focus on applications and not on the technology, he said.
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The last planned alpha update to Firefox 3.0 is released.
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Microsoft's operating system from 1.0 to Vista.
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com. Labeling 2005 a &quot;breakout year&quot; for its server operating-system line, Microsoft on Monday laid out a revised road map for Windows Server 2003 that promised the release of the second edition in the last half and a service pack in the first.
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Microsoft's  founder is expected to detail the company's plan for computer management software and announce a long-awaited Windows update tool.