* Web 2.0: Meaningless buzzword or Internet revolution? * IBM social networking site looking for Many Eyes * Can we make radio interference into a virtue? * Google exec says IT 'crisis' preventing business innovation * New mobile service simplifies online buying * Video: Wrapping up CES * Buzzblog: "Look, Ma, no Windows" * Today on Layer 8
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Web 2.0: Meaningless buzzword or Internet revolution?
Web 2.0 could be a meaningless marketing buzzword. Or it may represent a whole new paradigm for the Internet, one centered on user-generated content that could hasten the death of the newspaper industry. Click here for more.
IBM social networking site looking for Many Eyes
IBM/Lotus Tuesday launched a social networking Web site that combines information analysis and discussion features that let users slice, dice and talk about data they upload themselves from spreadsheets or other files. Click here for more.
Can we make radio interference into a virtue?
A University of Illinois researcher is trying the wireless equivalent of making a silk purse out of sow’s ear. The National Science Foundation has awarded a 5-year, $400,000 grant to explore ways of using radio interference to actually improve wireless communications. Click here for more.
Google exec says IT ‘crisis’ preventing business innovation
Google’s general manager of enterprise business Tuesday said a “crisis” in IT is preventing enterprises from pursuing the type of innovations that allow businesses to grow. Click here for more.
New mobile service simplifies online buying
A start-up has released free software coupled to a Web service that lets handheld users quickly and easily execute online transactions with a group of vendors. The e-commerce service, called Digby, is available from 30 Second Software initially for Research in Motion Blackberry handhelds. Click here for more.
Video: Wrapping up CES
A weary Keith takes a break in a very comfortable chair and brings you two final items from CES 2007: A “Space Navigator” device from Logitech and a gaming system from HP’s VooDoo division. Watch now.
Buzzblog: “Look, Ma, no Windows”
Hey, look, Dell’s selling a handful of desktop PCs that come fully loaded with… wait, I mean that do not come fully loaded with a Windows operating system. Click here for more.
Today on Layer 8, where we rarely drink before noon:
Can’t say I am going to miss these: Miller Brewing has killed off the “Manlaw” ads that had folks such as actor Burt Reynolds, football star Jerome Bettis and football coach Jimmy Johnson sitting around pronouncing things manly or unmanly. At your home for not-just-networking news.
