Back in the 90s, the web simply delivered information to people who passively accessed it. It’s a Web 2.0 world now, where people interact, contribute, and connect.
When you look at the power of the Web 2.0 trend in the Internet economy, most people point to the success of Facebook, or the influence of Web 2.0 [...]

Have you ever been concerned about security on Twitter? You should be.
I’ve tweeted this before on my Twitter pages @usabilitydesign and @socialmediamash, but I have to expand on this issue here because I think it’s going to be something that is going to become an issue for Twitter micro-bloggers.
In case you’re new to Twitter, or not familiar [...]

Here are 5 quick tips on naming your business, from the experts at BrandNewPerfect.Name:
1. We want the perfect domain name.
In the beginning, everyone pined over what seemed to be the perfect domain names – the obvious ones like realestate.com, entertainment.com and internet.com (how would you like to own the ‘internet’?). Then some creative upstarts such [...]

When most businesses hear about the rise of social media – i.e. blogging, podcasting, social networks such as Facebook – their reactions can be paraphrased as “Interesting, but how is that going to help our business?” or “I don’t want my employees wasting their time socializing on the Web.”
With social media, the emphasis is on [...]

Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia and director of the Wikimedia Foundation. He was recently profiled in Wired Magazine.
We’ve all read in Wired Magazine and other publications about how you founded Wikipedia. What’s something we didn’t know about how it all began?

My daughter was born December 26, and Wikipedia was founded January 15. Her [...]