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Web 2.0 Realities Hit Media and Marketers
Live events go virtual, corporate marketers become publishers and old school media gets conversational. It's old news that the Web turned publishing upside down; now the only question is how fast traditional media can learn to dance with its feet stuck to the ceiling.

Integrator Sees Open vs. Closed Cloud Computing Battle in 2009
Cloud computing made great strides in 2008, but will that continue in 2009? SAAS integrator and consulting services firm Appirio predicts that open clouds from Salesforce.com and Google will duke it out with Microsoft's Windows Azure and Microsoft Online Services for dominance in a rapidly growing market.

Despite Some Successes, B to B Pubs Not Out of Woods
Competitors continue to grow in numbers and sophistication, but focus on empowering readers can still pay dividends.

US-Chinese Spy War Continues Online
Opinion: There are plenty of ways to use common publishing technology for espionage on the Web; that's no reason to make it easy.

Keep IT Rocking the Rolling Stones Way
Jagger and Richards don't have much in the way of IT chops, but the techniques they have used to keep the Stone business alive are applicable to IT as well.

Microsoft Throws Open the Doors to Office Live Beta
Product keys and the waitlist are off 'for now' but may come back again at a later date.

I Love Your New Web 2.0 App ... Now Fix It!
Opinion: Web 2.0 sites aren't published so much as streamed, constantly improving and growing through the participation of their users.

User Interface Friction: It's What Makes You Hate Computers
Opinion: Research on Web useability is easy to find, but not so for operating systems and hardware. We need a new lexicon for understanding differences between devices.

Google News Gets Schooled
Blog Post: A teenager has accidentally pointed out Google News' credibility problems.

Where is Quartz?
Opinion: Sounds like the first Quartz Community Technology Preview (CTP) build is unlikely to debut at Microsoft Mix '06 next week, as originally planned. What gives?

Don't Cheer Yourself into Complacency
Opinion: SXSW offers some valuable lessons and rousing success stories, but don't let self-interested boosterism replace critical thinking.

Blogging for Dollars Brings Unexpected Responsibilities
Reporter's Notebook: Professional bloggers Jason Kottke and Heather Armstrong took the stage at SXSW to discuss what happens when you start making a living from your hobby.

Welcome to Optimism 2.0
Opinion: We're starting to see the beginning of a whole new Web Renaissance.

Five Lessons in Search and Marketing from SES
Opinion: Search expert Rudy DeDominicis brings back five lessons about rich media and search optimization from the Search Engine Strategies conference.

Live from ETech: Ray Ozzie on Simple Bridge-Building
Opinion: Microsoft's Ray Ozzie demonstrates early work on & Live Clipboard,& a facility for copying and pasting to and from the Web, including underlying metadata.

SES Roundup: Pimp your Podcast, RSS Feed, and Blog
Opinion: When you're in the content creation business, you like to think that your content will succeed on its own intrinsic merits. Right?

Is It Too Late to Save Net Neutrality?
Opinion: Broadband providers are already monkeying with traffic to give their own products higher priority than third-party solutions. Yeah, that's ethical!

When Naked Women Attack
Opinion: A nudie site boasting & the world's most perfect natural women& is using the courts to undermine the way search works.

2006: First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Betas
Opinion: The public beta subverts the symbiotic relationship that should exist between a company and its customer.