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[2006-03-31] Corporate Resistance to Web 2.0...
I had lunch with Dennis McDonald yesterday. We were initially introduced through the LinkedinBloggers Group, where he is now one of the moderators.
[2006-03-31] New Version Of Google Talk Leaked
Philipp has a nice scoop: Google has quietly put a new version of Google Talk up for download, with no public announcement.
[2006-03-30] MySpace Mania
My Edelman colleague Marilynn Mobley sent over some staggering statistics about MySpace.
[2006-03-30] JupiterResearch Sold for $10M
The WSJ reports Jupitermedia has sold its JupiterResearch unit for $10.1 million to MCG Capital.
[2006-03-30] Google To Buy Facebook. Riiiiight.
I think this is the funniest thing I've read all day, but something tells me Jason Dowdell isn't joking.
[2006-03-30] TypePad Introduces Blog Widgets
TypePad has rolled out a nice new feature that bring dozens of widgets to your blog from other Web sites like Flickr, Technorati, FeedBurner and more.
[2006-03-29] Digg is to Slashdot, as Reddit is to Kuro5hin
After very careful consideration, I've come to the conclusion that my current understanding of Digg and Reddit can be expressed in the form of an SAT analogy and terms of a pair of "community" sites from the previous generation.
[2006-03-29] YouTube is a Friend, Not a Foe
YouTube is capping video lengths to reduce copyright infringement, according Ars.
[2006-03-28] Mainstream Media Not Crediting Bloggers?
The Consumerist points us to a story at The Huffington Post, where an AP journalist was caught plagiarizing a story posted by a blogger.
[2006-03-28] Feed Demon 2 Released
The new version 2 of the FeedDemon RSS reader for Windows was released yesterday.
[2006-03-28] Congrats To Coghead On Their First Round Funding
FINALLY can talk about this.
[2006-03-28] I Want my Web 2.0
I noticed a little PRWeb press release action from SEOMoz announcing their Web 2.0 Awards today.
[2006-03-27] Washington Post Blogger Quits...
The Washinton Post reports that one of its blogger recently resigned amid allegations that he previously plagiarized content.
[2006-03-27] The Web 2.0 World is Also Flat
While a lot of the action in social media is here in the US, don't count out other nations.
[2006-03-24] Broadband Means More Online News Readers
CNET has details of a new Pew study which suggests more and more people are turning to the internet to get their daily news, thanks in part to the rise in broadband availability.
[2006-03-24] Matt Bailey Launches SiteLogic
In case you weren't aware, Matt Bailey, has left the Karcher Group and started his own company called SiteLogic.
[2006-03-24] Not All Google Touches Turns to Gold
Google's test to see if its auction advertising model would carry over to print has hit a major setback.
[2006-03-24] GoDaddy Moving To Windows Servers
A press release (via Digg) reports that GoDaddy is moving their hosted parked domains to the Microsoft Solution for Windows-based hosting.
[2006-03-24] Red America Blogger Quits The Post
The Washington Post has had its share of blog woes now, first by shutting down the ability to comment on their blog, then the revelation that 'Red America' blogger Ben Domenech borrowed material five years ago for a movie review posted at National Review Online.
[2006-03-22] eBay Extends RSS Syndication To Search
Though eBay has maintained RSS feeds for its Stores, official announcements, and discussion boards, users really wanted to see them create RSS feeds for search terms.
[2006-03-22] Bloginfluence Analyzes Your Blego
Bloginfluence rates your blog's influence by scanning all the usual sources - T'Rati, Ice Rocket, Google, etc.
[2006-03-21] Google And Nike Launch Soccer Community
Nathan has details of Joga, a new site for soccer (real FOOTball) fans launched by Google and Nike.
[2006-03-21] Round-up of Web Acquisitions
It's been a busy week for acquisitions already.
[2006-03-20] Tired: Sharing; New Hotness: Privacy
From del.icio.us to Google, the concept of sharing even the most detached information one generates willingly or unwillingly has far less appeal than the concept of privacy.
[2006-03-19] What Portals Should Be
I've worked on the implementation of several portals, but always from the content side, never the back-end technology.
[2006-03-18] Microsoft Adding to Portfolio
This from the Rocky Mountain News... Microsoft Corp. is in the process of acquiring Boulder-based remote-sensing company Vexcel Corp. for an undisclosed sum.
[2006-03-17] Google’s Subsidiaries
Philipp grabs the list of 13 Google subsidiaries out of their recent annual report.
[2006-03-16] AOL May Digg New Netscape Format
After tossing out a number of Netscape staffers, AOL could relaunch the site as a user-generated content destination built like the popular tech news website Digg.com.
[2006-03-16] Six Apart to Grow New Blogging Tools
According to Reuters, Six Apart has secured $12 million in a new round of funding.
[2006-03-16] Aggregated Diminishing Returns and a Feed Diet
It's easy to get sucked into things. You can sit down with a good book for a few minutes and before you know it, several hours and a few hundred pages have gone by.
[2006-03-16] SF Chronicle Debuts New Tech Blog
A mix of business and technology journalists for the San Francisco Chronicle have launched a new blog called "The Tech Chronicles," that will cover, you guessed it, the Bay Area techscape.
[2006-03-15] Comment is free
An evolutionary development in mainstream media engagement with readers and others by The Guardian in the UK, which has launched Comment is free:
[2006-03-14] Memorandum Launches Gossip Digger
One of the top resources we listed in our online reputation monitoring guide was Memorandum (which includes the excellent tech.memorandum).
[2006-03-14] MSN Spaces Implements RSS 'Last Modified'
Seeing that MSN Spaces RSS feeds were having issues in Bloglines, looking like they were changing constantly due to dynamic elements, MSN Spaces introduced a new field to their feeds:
[2006-03-14] Del.icio.us Vamps URL Check
Delicious has quietly rolled out a redesign to their URL pages that offers some pretty rich information such as the URL's bookmarking history, user notes, common tags and more.
[2006-03-13] MySpace Sending Hints About Messaging
A page on MySpace.com noted the forthcoming MySpace Messenger service, which looks like a way the social networking service plans to keep its brand on its users' desktops.
[2006-03-13] Behind the MySpace Juggernaut
Alexa looks behind the MySpace curtain to uncover how the site became a globally top-10 ranked site.
[2006-03-13] Lowdown on Performancing Metrics
Last week, Nick Wilson of Performancing mentioned their new blog metrics service has been in Alpha testing and will be released to public beta soon, as in tomorrow possibly.
[2006-03-11] SXSW: Does Exclusivity Strengthen or Dilute?
(very different kind of liveblog vs. the previous session...the wisdom of crowds session was a monologue, this session was a group of about 70 people, and the conversation was truly that, and bounced around the room...trying to capture the salient points of a fast-moving discussion...)
[2006-03-09] Telco Money Grab Numbers Revealed
All those billions of dollars the telecom companies want to snatch from content providers gain a bit of context thanks to BellSouth chief architect Henry Kafka.
[2006-03-08] Backward News via Google News Israel
Google has launched Google News Israel, featuring articles from Hebrew-language newspapers.
[2006-03-07] Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers, New York Times Goes Off
The New York Times manages to make a huge story from the fact that some bloggers apparently "cut and paste" whole sentences sent to them by Wal-Mart and other companies.
[2006-03-07] Squeet, what to do if you don’t want to RSS
I'm getting lots of emails wondering "what time will the Origami video be available?" I don't yet know, sorry.
[2006-03-07] New Microsoft idea: Clipboard for the Web
Ray Ozzie just showed an audience at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference a new idea: clipboard for the Web.
[2006-03-07] Danah disagrees with me about MySpace
Danah Boyd wrote me last night and said she "vehemently disagrees" with my reporting that ugly design is behind MySpace's success.
[2006-03-07] Six Apart Goes Corporate
Six Apart has launched two new business-class blogging products.
[2006-03-07] Fold Looks Promising
Fold is a Web 2.0 start page that looks promising.
[2006-03-07] iSift
iSift at first blush looks like another digg clone.
[2006-03-06] AP Launches MSN-Powered IE-Only Video Network
Gary Price reports that the Associated Press has launched a video network, the shockingly named "AP Online Video Network".
[2006-03-06] Could Community Wikis be the Tipping Point?
At the New Communications Forum last week, pretty much everybody agreed that blogs were no fad, but wikis evoked a less enthusiastic response.
[2006-03-06] Feedbucket
FeedBucket is another Web based RSS reader.
[2006-03-03] DOJ Interested In Digital Music Pricing
Subpoenas for more information from the major music labels are arriving from the Department of Justice, with industry sources claiming DOJ has opened a new investigation into possible industry collusion on prices.
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