Microsoft has landed itself in hot water, again, among the blogosphere and public in general after it offered to pay a blogger to edit certain Wikipedia articles in their favor.

Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia - anyone can add or edit almost anything on the site. The chaos of such a method is maintained in [...]

The Luxembourg-based Wikio has secured funding for €4 million ($5.3 million).
Wikio is like Digg + Google News + Technorati, still in its early phases but promises to lead the way in European Web 2.0 search technologies.

Wikio, launched in France last June, and currently operating sites in France, United States, Germany, Italy and Spain, is [...]

As a followup to my post yesterday about the incident on the Jobster CEO’s blog, I found a great post from Andy Beal on how to manage your reputation online.
The first step is to find out what others are saying about your brand.
• If possible, monitor hourly as early action is crucial.
• Create custom RSS [...]