Advertisers hacking Web2.0 for profit

This article discusses how advertisers are using social news sites such as Digg and StumbleUpon to make new profits. For a price they will guarantee that a site will get a enough thumbs up or votes to generate traffic for that site or story. How many other web 2.0 sites are going to become targets to this kind of advertising? What new technologies can these sites use to prevent these hacks from working? This is a classic game of cat and mouse, lets just hope the web 2.0 sites win the game.

YouTube Remixer: Edit Videos Online At YouTube

Get those family vidoes out, it looks like YouTube is now offering the ability to edit your movies online. I am not sure how much use this will get because most people using YouTube seem to have video capture / editing software already, but maybe it will bring in the mom and pop crowd that are less sophisticated.

Navy and FOSS

Well the Navy is now jumping on the FOSS bandwagon. I wish more of my tax funded agencies would see the usefulness of FOSS. It could not only save tax payers millions, but also create more competition among the vendors who prey on our tax dollars.

Navy CIO 'recognizes the importance of OSS to the warfighter'