Web 2.0 News Desk

SYS-CON Publishing Director Jeremy Geelan moderated a Power Panel devoted to AJAX and Web 2.0 in a recent taping for SYS-CON.TV at the Reuters Studio overlooking New York's Times Square. Geelan's guests included Web 2.0 gurus Dion Hinchcliffe and Thad Scheer, venture capitalist Charles Fiesel, SOA Web Services Journal Editor-in-Chief Sean Rhody, and SYS-CON West Coast Bureau Chief Roger Strukhoff. The entire program can be accessed directly through www.sys-con.tv. ... (more)

Ulitzer to Launch 6,000 Author Sites

Maureen O'Gara http://maureenogara.ulitzer.com, Jeremy Geelan http://jeremygeelan.ulitzer.com, Yakov Fain http://yakovfain.ulitzer.com, Alan Williamson http://alanwilliamson.ulitzer.com, Roger Strukhoff http://rogerstrukhoff.ulitzer.com, Sean Rhody http://seanrhody.ulitzer.com, Mark R. Hinkle http://markrhinkle.ulitzer.com, Derek Ferguson http://derekferguson.ulitzer.com, Ajit Sagar http://ajitsagar.ulitzer.com, Simon Horwith http://simonhorwith.ulitzer.com, Joe Winchester http://joewinchester.ulitzer.com, Ben Forta http://benforta.ulitzer.com, Coach Wei http://coachwei.ulitzer... (more)

Group Chat for Microsoft Office: Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Parlano

As it continues to build out its "unified communications" offering, Microsoft has swooped to buy Parlano, the US-based company spun out of Swiss bank UBS to develop and market the MindAlign group chat application used by  Deutsche Bank, Putnam Investments and others. It will be adding the group chat feature to Microsoft Office Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communicator. ‘Parlano has been successful in meeting the communications needs of companies in financial services and other vertical markets,’ said Microsoft’s corporate vice president of unified... (more)

JanRain Announces Support for OpenID 2.0

JanRain announced support for OpenID 2.0. The latest version of OpenID assures its position as the dominant standard for next-generation digital identity. With new features that improve security and usability of OpenID, the user-centric single sign-on and online user-authentication standard is for mass adoption and widespread disruption across the Internet. As the primary contributor to the OpenID code base, JanRain is positioned to deliver the key applications and services that will drive exponential growth of the OpenID ecosystem in 2008 and beyond. OpenID, built on the concep... (more)

Web 2.0 Company Foldera To Launch Web-application Suite

Foldera said this week it will launch on April 15 its long-awaited Web-application suite for e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, document storage, versioning and tasks. If all goes as planned, the application will organize all types of content. For instance after initial setup, it is designed to route e-mails into folders as they arrive, and users should be able to create activity folders for each project and share documents in groups. The application, built with Web 2.0 technology, took five years to complete, Foldera said. "We already have about 10,000 businesses requesting m... (more)