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One of Facebook’s two cofounders is jumping ship to start his own Internet company. Dustin Moskovitz announced he’ll leave the social networking site in about a month. He and colleague Justin Rosenstein, a Facebook engineering manager who previously worked at Google, will launch a new enterprise software business. Moskovitz first formed Facebook with CEO and close friend Mark Zuckerberg while the two were students and roommates at Harvard in 2004. He has been one of its biggest cheerleaders over the years and is the latest in a string of execs to part ways in the past several months.

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Facebook’s Other Founder Goes Off to Found Some More

National Public Radio, already strong online with free downloads from many of its shows, is boosting its digital ambitions with Monday’s introduction of social-networking features akin to Facebook. NPR also plans to overhaul its Web site and expand the tools for sharing its programs elsewhere over the next few months. And it is working to increase the flexibility of its popular “podcasts,” audio downloads that have tripled in usage over the past two years. These digital initiatives are aimed at capturing and retaining audiences.

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NPR Dials Up Web 2.0 Strategy

Web 2.0 technologies offer more opportunities than just sharing information with friends and family on Facebook or uploading user-generated videos on YouTube. The tools that help enable conversations between people on the Internet can also help corporations get closer to their customers. ECT News Network interviewer Renay San Miguel talks to Kumar Vora, Adobe Systems vice president for product strategy and enterprise marketing, about cost efficiencies enabled by Web 2.0.

Adobe Systems’ Kumar Vora on Empowering Customers

Oracle introduced a new collaborative platform called “Beehive” at OpenWorld last week. To be sure, it was hardly the only announcement the enterprise software vendor made — but it did serve as grist for many bloggers. Oracle is basically jumping on a bandwagon in the collaboration space, said David Brunet, principal at Mipro Consulting and an OpenWorld attendee, as several best-of-breed vendors already offer such functionality. “[However,] it is still a good opportunity for Oracle. It has put all the various pieces together in one enterprise package.”

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The Buzz About Beehive

Sure, the kids looked sharp presenting their business plans to the jury of Silicon Valley investors. And yes, the investors looked impressed sitting in the conference room at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus. But me? All I could think was: It’s summer. Shouldn’t these middle-schoolers be out bouncing a ball? Or counting the clouds? Or rowing a boat across a lake? I know. It’s that kind of thinking that means I’ll be working for one of these kids someday — and maybe soon. See, they’re not much younger than Mark Zuckerberg was when he started Facebook.

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What I Did Last Summer: CEO Camp