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Ed YourdonRoost, a technology company dedicated to helping small businesses and individual professionals attract more business from social media, will be announcing an entirely new business strategy and product at the Web 2.0 Expo next week in San Francisco. The Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by O'Reilly Media, Inc. and UBM TechWeb, showcases the hottest Web 2.0 products, latest business models, and design strategies for the next-generation Web.
To gear up for its big launch at Web 2.0, Roost is inviting individual professionals and small business owners to pre-register on http://www.roost.com to reserve their business name now.
Roost will be providing first-look demos of its new product on the Web 2.0 Expo show floor in Booth 508. In addition, Roost CEO and co-founder, Alex Chang, will be presenting on the topic of Social Means Business: Real Stories from Real Businesses, at the Web 2.0 Solutions Theater in the Expo Hall on Tuesday, March 29th at 12:00 p.m.
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mynetxInternet Explorer 9 (IE9), making use of DirectX to accelerate several browser functions, is fast gaining popularity with Windows 7 and Vista users. As per the recent report of an internet analytics firm Net Applications that reveals browser market share numbers, Microsoft's new browser records 3.6% of web browsing in March.
Microsoft says that the adoption rate of IE9 is five times higher than that seen for Internet Explorer 8 in the same period. Although IE9 is still trailing more established browsers like Microsoft's own IE8, Firefox 3.6 and Google Chrome in global markets with 51.2%, 19.5% and 15.2% of net browsing rate respectively, the internet browser is ahead of new browsers like Firefox 4 with a 2.8% usage share.
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Franco BoulyMany Web 2.0 sites already use Facebook for their comments engine. Now Facebook is making it easy for these sites to add user-moderation, user-identity, discussion-threading, and other new Facebook tools.
The launch of an updated plug-in by the company will give third-party sites the same functionality recently rolled out across the social media site's user walls. The reason many websites prefer using Facebook for their comments engine is that Facebook facilitates quality conversations by requiring to register with their real identity, encouraging them to be more accountable and authentic in online discussions. As part of this, ranked comments help to surface the most relevant comments and discussion threads, so that the best content automatically rises to the top, while spammy comments are suppressed. Interested websites can add the plug-in via a single line of code.