VentureBeat writes that “ITerating.com, a New York company, has launched the first Wiki-based directory of software.” The directory covers “open source, commercial and hosted software.”

The International Herald Tribune reports that “

[t]he European Convention on Human Rights has just been updated for the Internet age to include the basic right to keep your personal e-mail messages and Web surfing private. That, at least,” the Post writes, “is the precedent set by a court ruling earlier this month in Strasbourg in a case involving a Welsh college employee. The decision, coming out of the European Court of Human Rights, will affect subsequent human rights cases emerging from any of the 30 countries that have signed on to the convention.”

The San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting article by David Lazarus, in which he asserts that Web 2.0 is really not about networking and community building, but rather about “who makes the most money off the largest captive audience since the invention of television. And nothing underlines the stakes of this contest like Google’s planned $3.1 billion takeover of online ad agency DoubleClick.”

In another Web 2.0 story, MSNBC points out that, according to a new study, “Web 2.0 […] is far less participatory than commonly assumed.” Thus, only “[a] tiny 0.16 percent of visits to Google’s top video-sharing site, YouTube, are by users seeking to upload video for others to watch.”

PCMag.com reports on “today’s top tech trends” – and what could kill them.