This blog is supposed to be about the concept that is called Web 2.0, so I suppose I had better take a stab at defining it. First, let's get the obvious things out of the way. Yes, it was a marketing ...

Last week I was in San Francisco bay area talking to several Web 2.0 companies about their APIs. Much has been written about Facebook’s new move to open up their platform to encourage others to help ...

The true essence of the internet is the democratization of knowledge and communication. From its earliest roots as ARPANET, the internet has been used to close the information gap over time and ...

Collaboration tools such as blogs and wikis are staking out ground inside businesses--and are often brought in by the end users themselves. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Is Google's acquisition of Web word processor Writely a harbinger of more acquisitions? Dozens of Web 2.0-style start-ups certainly hope so. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...