Microsoft and its competitors are only interested in monetizable tasks, as opposed to booking a meeting with a friend ... but someday marketers will realize people don't use the Web only to buy things.

As lawmakers in the UK have figured out, when marketers mingle among consumers, the results are often more artifice than advertising.

I'm not interested in technology per se, I am interested in the ways we might use it to make our lives richer and more meaningful.

Who says there's no humor to be had in the Web 2.0 "bubble"? The Richter Scales, a San Francisco-based a capella group "always with [their] fingers on...

Web 2.0 dynamo Facebook said that an initial public offering is still years away but that it's making progress on a "financing" that some reports clai...