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Some local companies hoping to make the grade in Web 2.0 (Boston Globe)
While the Boston area has yet to emerge as a hotbed for Web 2.0 companies, a small cluster of start-ups is scrambling to gain traction with new Internet business models. Here are five of the local players:
Where’s Web 2.0? (Boston Globe)
Venture capitalist Michael Hirshland, general partner at Polaris Venture Partners in Waltham, has devoted the past two years to hunting for investments in what is arguably the hottest field in technology today: the second wave of Internet start-ups known as Web 2.0.
Hand-held Web surfing possible with Pocket Express software (The Plain Dealer)
Surfing the Web on a Treo or a BlackBerry is tedious at best. It’s slow and hard to view a Web page on that tiny screen. Pocket Express from Handmark solves these problems by seamlessly delivering news, weather and sports scores directly to the device in an easy-to-read format.