In some ways, the Facebook IPO feels like the crowning moment of the Web 2.0 era, following previous public debuts by LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga, Pandora and Yelp, among others. But it turns out there are a lot more - a LOT - where those came from.

Mr. Market moves in mysterious ways. But maybe we all should have seen this coming.

Blog network Weblogs, Inc. sold to AOL in October 2005, for a reported $25 million. I was in San Francisco when it happened, at the Web 2.0 Conference. The morning the deal went public, I remember founder Jason Calacanis arriving at the conference with a smile as wide as the Cheshire Cat himself. He positively glowed, while basking in the congratulations and praise from fellow entrepreneurs at ...

Editor's note: In the Summer 2012 issue of SAY Magazine , Dan Frommer chronicles the history of tech blogging. For the rest of this week, Richard MacManus, who founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003, will be looking back on the early days . TechCrunch launched on June 11, 2005, with the aim of covering the emerging trend called Web 2.0. Just a few days after, I was in an email exchange with cofounders ...

Web 2.0 companies are making money by challenging traditional business models.

Buy Real Marketing, a world provider of web 2.0 business applications is proud to announce another milestone – 30,000 clients opting in the client dashboard. The client dashboard is a one-stop-shop for social media needs where clients can purchase Twitter followers, YouTube views, Vimeo views and SoundCloud plays.(PRWEB) May 16, 2012 Buy Real Marketing, a world provider of web 2.0 applications ...

Compuware UEM Simplifies Performance Management at the Edge of the Internet, Enabling Customers to Optimize End-user Experience and Decrease Abandonment

In today?s new media, web 2.0, SoLoMo (whatever that means) world, search is more than a simple query. Search has become a social experience, one in which we now rely upon our friends and colleagues for suggestions to boost relevant results. According to Bing, ?research tells us that 90% of people consult with a friend ...

Dell today announced that customers such as Morphlabs and Vibrant Media are using Dell microserver technologies based on Intel Xeon processors to power business-critical web 2.0, cloud, and content delivery networks , as well as high-performance computing applications.

News updates all day from your Fast Company editors. Digg's technical staff are being hired by the Washington Post , according to sources familiar with the goings-on, and they're being used to flesh-out the team that built the WP's Social Reader app for Facebook. But, and here is the rub, the WP isn't interested in buying social news aggregator Digg itself. That leaves a huge question marke ...