The Wall St. Journal reports today that video podcaster and energetic force of nature Gary Vaynerchuk has signed a “seven-figure, 10-book deal” with publisher Harper Studio. The first of the series, “Crush It! Turn Your Passion into Profits in a Digital World,” will be published in September. The publishing contract is noteworthy for a couple [...]

When you look at the steady stream of companies that are hyped at sites like TechCrunch – companies like Cluztr, Validas, Wablet and Weebly – it doesn’t seem like a stretch to think that there’s something to the idea that there’s a “Web 2.0″ bubble, an unwarranted rush of interest and investment in new Internet [...]

Respected interviewer and journalist Charlier Rose, best known for his Charlie Rose Show on PBS, has introduced a new video portal that’s a great example of a corporate video destination. The site, now in beta, has great content, is well organized, has news feeds, tagged content, comments, well-implemented search and integrated ecommerce. You can explore [...]

Apple today announced that the iPhone will run applications created with “Web 2.0″ Internet standards when it begins shipping on June 29. Developers can create applications which look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone, and which can seamlessly access iPhone‚Äôs services, including making a phone call, sending an email and displaying a [...]

Claire Atkinson at Advertising Age Media Works writes in the “Watercooler” column that, since its July 2005 acquisition of MySpace, “the number of profiles on the social-networking site has zoomed to 130 million from 29 million in July 2005. Profile pages are growing globally at the pace of 8 million a month and are expected [...]

Intel Corporation announced at the Web 2.0 Conference today that it is collaborating with several software companies on the launch of SuiteTwo, a set of business software applications. The integrated suite is being billed as “a family of interconnected services combined to improve productivity and enable high-engagement marketing,” comprised of applications from software companies including [...]