Having a device that enables users to take pictures, e-mail colleagues, browse the web, and send text messages is no longer a nice-to-have device but a need-to-have device. That mentality is creating a recession-proof smartphone market.

Note: The projected market trends above were from information provided by private sources. Trends compare with previous business day.

Digg is experimenting with a new voting model. The Web site has unveiled a beta version of Digg Trends, a "voting experiment" that will bring active stories to the homepage for a limited voting period.

The Adoption Index Prediction Market Will Create an Important Benchmark for Measuring Enterprise 2.0 Trends

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - 11/04/09) - Crowdcast , along with Susan Scrupski and The 2.0 Adoption Council , is launching the Adoption Index Prediction Market today at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. The prediction market will be open to the public and will forecast Enterprise 2.0 adoption key indicators, measuring how these 2.0 tools and philosophies are transforming business operations ...

Outlook contact manager Xobni launches an enterprise version at Enterprise 2.0 conference but what would really be nice to see is some support for Web mail and mobile devices. by Sam Diaz

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- As enterprises purchase social software to improve internal collaboration, Socialtext has launched a new Services Partners Program to increase the business value that customers gain from its platform.

Churches embrace Web 2.0

Stock analysts love charts. Excel is their tool of choice. When used to accurately predict the future price movements of stocks or the economy, charts are beneficial. The problem occurs when charts meet PowerPoint. The combination can be deadly boring. Recently, Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker kicked off the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco with a discussion of the stock market, the economy ...

DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Collaboration 2.0: Technology and Best Practices for Successful Collaboration in a Web 2.0 World" report to their offering.

Sometime between now and the year 2019, Comcast will start going after botnets and will stop sending malicious Web traffic to its customers. Google will send up more alarms if your search results include possibly infectious links. Microsoft and Apple will get better at plugging holes in their software.

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section . Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership. Mashable’s Weekly Social Media and Marketing Event Guide is proudly ...

Note: The projected market trends above were from information provided by private sources. Trends compare with previous business day.

Open Text Corporation, a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), recently released its 2010 product roadmap for Web content management (WCM), digital asset management (DAM) and social media solutions at Content World, the company's annual user conference underway this week in Orlando, Fla.

Forget Web 2.0 mashups for a minute. We are experiencing the mother of all mashups in terms of the economy, social networking and rapidly changing attitudes of consumers. Here is a link to a must-read on the subject from Mark McDonald at Gartner, "The Ten Trends You Have To Watch: And What They Mean For IT". Here are some of McDonalds most interesting points (but in my words, of course ...

The rise of social media and real-time advocacy have re-written the community outreach rules companies followed for decades. But many American firms are dragging their feet as they approach "Community Relations 2.0," Boston College researchers report in the November issue of Harvard Business Review.

Yesterday we wrote about Mary Meeker's annual overview of Internet trends at the Web 2.0 Summit. In this post we do a deeper dive into the Web themes that Meeker explored. In particular we'll analyze mobile social networking, compare 2009 to previous years and look at the impact of Apple and Facebook on current trends. You can also skip to the conclusion for the main points. Meeker's ...

Cisco launched software that shines light on potentially troublesome websites hidden in what the US computer security firm dubbed the "Dark Web."

Harrison Yang, of SUNY Oswego’s curriculum and instruction faculty, recently helped assemble the first comprehensive book on using Web 2.0 in education.

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we continue the build-up to our first event: The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit on October 15th in Mountain View, California . You can register here for the low price of $270 . Also this week we analyzed applications from The Internet of Things, looked into a new class of tools that surface ...