weblogsinc bought by AOL for between $20-35 million. SocialText (the wiki company) is returning to open source. PubSub has announced an open source structured blogging initiative. Flock, the social browser,

Yahoo! has bought upcoming.org, Andy Baio's events service: "In just a few years, most of it spent on nights and weekends, the Upcoming team has built an excellent site with

24 Hour Laundry, the secretive start-up of Marc Andresson, has just released their new product - Ning. It's a free online service for "building and using social applications". Basically it's

Bud Gibson has a nice profile of FeedDigest, an RSS remix service created by Peter Cooper that I've had my eye on for a while. FeedDigest lets users "mix, filter

Tim O'Reilly has posted a meme map of Web 2.0, from the "What is Web 2.0?" brainstorming session at FOO Camp 2005. Hat-tip Josh for the link. It's kind of

Summary: 2006 may well be Microsoft's year, with upgrades to its flagship Vista OS and Office 12 products. But only if Google lets it be their rival's year. We don't

This week I've been noticing a lot of Web 2.0-style Office apps coming out. Here's a selection of some of them: AjaxOffice - "A complete office suite usable via your

You've got to hand it to Technorati, they sure know how to get media and blog attention. A recent Wired article makes the extraordinary claim that Technorati is "a public

Always good to read how non techies are using Web 2.0: Teachers need to give Web 2.0 tools "to students and to members of our community, to stop speaking only

MBAs got top billing in my latest Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up - and there have been some interesting follow-ups. In the comments to yesterday's post, Bud Gibson pointed to "The