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Do Facebook's Social Ads breach privacy laws?

US privacy advocates are questioning Facebook's latest revenue spinner, Social Ads, for possibly breaching 19th century laws designed to protect celebrities from being exploited in print media. Read more »

Microsoft seals Facebook deal with US$240m stake

It's official: Microsoft will take a US$240 million equity stake in Facebook during its next round of financing, valuing the company at a whopping US$15 billion. Read more »

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Flock woos Netscape users with its social skills

With Netscape edging closer to its doomsday, the Flock browser is hoping its social networking skills will divert users from migrating to the natural alternative, Firefox. Read more »

Westpac turns to Web 2.0 free for all

Westpac has bucked the trend on policing Internet use in the workplace -- allowing staff to access Facebook from work, building a Web 2.0-like portal in-house and a Westpac-branded site on Second Life. Read more »

Has the IT security model been broken by Web 2.0?

A legal case against Facebook which accuses the social network site of not keeping young users safe is the result of a dysfunctional IT security model dogging Web 2.0, according to privacy advocates and security analysts. Read more »

Is the Internet the new operating system?

Sites like Facebook and Google, which have evolved into Web platforms, are the wave of the future, according to a panel of top executives at this week's iMeme: Thinkers of Tec conference. Read more »

No Yahoo talks; Windows 7 on track

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday in the US that its on-again, off-again talks with Yahoo were firmly in the "off-again" phase. Read more »

BT bets on open development

BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble? Read more »

Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

Future Web talk caught up in semantics

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has talked up the prospects of the semantic Web, which he calls the "Web of the future". Read more »

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So you want to buy Facebook?

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- $500 million is an awful lot of money for a small stake in a Web site -- so I thought I'd make a list of things that Microsoft could spend its money on instead. Read more »

Facebook's portal for the masses

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week, Facebook took a number of strategic steps toward its goal of giving people the "power to share and make the world more open and connected." That's how founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the mission statement for Facebook. Read more »

10 PR 2.0 tips for startups

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- You’ve got a great product and spent much of your budget on developing your software or service and now you’re left with a marginal budget for marketing and PR. Sound familiar? Read more »

Is that $500 million in your wallet?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Have we officially returned to the silly season of the late 1990s? If not, there was a momentous step closer taken this week. Read more »

Is the $100 laptop the end for Moore's Law?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Here we are, extolling the virtues of laptops such as the pricey Sony Vaio TZ, when for most users the US$100 XO would be just as effective. Read more »

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  • Staff Shadow chasing in browsers

    The punching and counterpunching continued in the ongoing web browser development bout. Each time one browser closes a feature gap, a new feature appears in one of the others -- how we ever put up with the years of browser stagnation, I'll never know. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Chris Duckett Safari gets Gears

    Since its release in May last year, Gears has supported only Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. With the addition of Safari into the Gears fold, it closes the loop of major browsers to support Gears Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Renai LeMay MyPerfect.com.au has potential

    Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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