Foursquare finally makes its website as cool as its mobile apps

Location service Foursquare is showing off its new coat of paint. The company today unveiled a website redesign with a whole new experience for people sitting at their desks. What started as a check-in game all of a sudden seems …

Hilary Mason of bit.ly says realtime data reveals we’re no heroes

When we read or watch something online, we’re not quite the same person as we when we decide to share it.

No one knows this better than Bit.ly, the link shortener that has a front row seat on the world’s …

Why can’t we be friends? Facebook and Google+ relationship remains complicated

Facebook has no plans to integrate with Google+, Facebook’s chief technical officer Bret Taylor said today at the Web 2.o Summit in San Francisco.

“Every service is better when it’s social,”  he said. Apparently that dictum doesn’t apply, however, when …

Sergey Brin: Google+ is part of a bouquet of momentous projects

Google co-founder Sergey Brin said today that the Google+ social network is working surprisingly well and is part of a “bouquet” of services to come.

Brin (pictured in the middle) made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit alongside …

How you can be an expert and get paid for it, the Demand Media way

If you’re an expert on any subject, you can become famous and get paid for it. Even if you’re just writing posts on the internet. That’s the message delivered today by Joanne Bradford, chief revenue officer at web media giant …

Web 2.0: MC Hammer reveals deep search product WireDoo

Is there something wrong with search? There are many answers to that question, and rapper M.C. Hammer took the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit with his own, WiredDoo, a deep search solution. With the tagline, “Search once, see what’s …

Pandora prepares to do battle with local broadcast radio

Internet radio service Pandora is getting so big across the globe that it can now challenge broadcast radio stations in a number of local markets, said Tim Westergren, chief executive of Pandora.

Pandora now has more than 37 million active …

Ballmer: Kinect platform will highlight new era of innovation, openness

Speaking at the Web 2.o Summit today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the Kinect, the motion-sensitive camera for the Xbox 360 game console, is going to be at heart of rush of innovation.

“You’re going to see a range …

Ben Horowitz on how to be an uber investor and breed technical CEOs

Ben Horowitz, a co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, says he and his famous partner Marc Andreessen hope to carve out a different path in creating a new kind of venture capital firm.

They hope to capitalize on …

How Foursquare is moving beyond the check-in

“We want to build tools that change the way all the people in this room experience the real world,” said Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley at the Web 2.0 Summit today, as he described his company’s retreat from the game mechanics …

The FTC’s privacy guy: You don’t want to meet him.

“I’m the guy you don’t want to meet and frankly I don’t want to meet you either.” That’s how the Federal Trade Commission‘s David Vladeck opened his talk at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today.

The line was …

Michael Dell says confusion at HP has given Dell its opportunity

Michael Dell, founder and chief executive of Dell, said that the recent uncertainty at Hewlett-Packard has been good for Dell in landing new customers. HP is the world’s No. 1 PC maker, but its place in the market became uncertain …

From Napster to Spotify, Sean Parker is planning for “the next music industry”

Sean Parker began his tour in the Internet spotlight by blowing up the music industry, and it apparently became sort of a hobby for the serial entrepreneur.

He co-founded Napster in 1999; a decade and change later, he’s taking on …

Intel’s anthropologist reveals the secret life of data (video)

Genevieve Bell leads a group of anthropologists at Intel who have become famous for their insights into how people use technology. At the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday, she gave one of the most interesting and amusing talks about what would …

Intel execs predicts 15B devices will be connected to the internet

Intel executive Kirk Skaugen said today that his company expects 15 billion devices will be connected to the internet in the coming years. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Skaugen said that the growth of data on …

Anonymity or identity? 4chan founder says we need both

If you were starting your own web service, would you make people sign up for an account linked to their real-world names and faces, or would you allow them to post anonymously?

This is a debate that has raged online …

eBay’s CEO says line is blurring between online and offline shopping

John Donahoe, eBay chief executive, thinks the line between offline and online shopping is blurring, and his company plans to serve consumers as they move back and forth between them.

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco, …