Photo of the Week: I snapped this photo of the West Wing while celebrating 
Earth Day 2007 on the White House grounds.
eBay Acquires StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon was acquired by eBay for between $40 to $75 million but it seems Google Google tried to rain on their parade with a toolbar update.
Hitwise Acquired by Experian for $240 Million
All of those great charts that Hitwise so freely provide us, have paid off big time for the web intelligence company. Information services provider Experian has announced their cash purchase of Hitwise for $240 million.
Netvibes Launches Universe: Customized Public Pages
Netvibes
launched Universe, allowing users to create
highly customized versions of Netvibes and publish them for public
access. Netvibes has created 100 or so branded versions for the launch
- users will be able to create these soon. Netvibes hosted a huge launch party this past Monday in San Francisco.
Here are a few things that every Video Aggregator website needs in order to stay afloat in this ever-crowding market.
AOL Launching Next Week In India
AOL President and COO Ron Grant is going to be in India next week for the launch of AOL’s India portal.
Google Feed API
Google Reader finally has its first official API. Any developer in the world can request the entire history of a web feed from Google's geo-distributed server cloud in a normalized response for inclusion in their websites or products.
Web 2.0 Expo: All Things Widgets
The Web 2.0 Expo included two sessions on widgets. Also, offline web apps could be the next big thing after seeing an Apollo demo, by Kevin Lynch of
Adobe.
Web 2.0 takes On Colleges And Universities: Education 2.0
In
the shift from an intellectual economy of push, to one of pull, the
evolving participatory media are making their impact felt . It is no
longer enough to pump out information like gasoline and expect
authentic learning to take place - the new generation.
