As we reported yesterday, CNN is this weekend re-launching its website as an enhanced multimedia site - packed with web 2.0 features such as recommendations and user generated content. The Continue reading »

Over the past year or so we've seen many mainstream publications 'web 2.0-ize' their web presence. BBC has been a leading force, while in March USA Today announced a re-design. Continue reading »

Following on from the New York Times Reader last year, made with Microsoft's rich presentation technology WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), three more big media companies have released Web/desktop News Readers Continue reading »

Greg Linden just posted on his blog that Findory, the personalized news service he created and has been running for the past 3 years, is to slowly "fade away". In Continue reading »

Bambi Francisco from MarketWatch has an interesting interview with Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media. Rosenblatt was chairman of MySpace at the time it was sold to News Corp and Continue reading »

While at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I caught up with About.com CEO Scott Meyer. About.com is the long-standing network of how-to websites, purchased in March 2005 by the Continue reading »

In other acquisition news today, Techcrunch reported that Cond√© Nast, owner of Wired and other magazines/websites, has acquired Boston-based Reddit. I pinged Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian about this and he Continue reading »

Written by Guest Blogger Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus. Introduction Personalized Content is one of the two most popular approaches in next generation news sites - the other Continue reading »

Back in February I wrote a post entitled Rating the Meme Trackers. At the time I rated Memeorandum (now known as Techmeme) as the best, but I thought Topix and Continue reading »

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. This post looks at the main players in the Social News space, to try and identify their characteristics and understand the Continue reading »