Sep 22, 2008

Submitted by Pbarnhart: In the quest for URL shortener dominance in this era of the microblog and limited message space, BudURL comes out swinging. Going toe to toe with other URL shrinkers, BudURL combines metrics with URL shortening. (Read More)

Jul 14, 2008

Social Media NY Times: In House, tweets fly over Web plan. Here's what has happened in response to a Democratic House leader's proposal:The popular conservative blog, Red State, declared, “Whatever intention the Democrats have, this idea is ridiculous. Congressmen should be able to decide for themselves where and how they interact with (Read More)

Apr 26, 2008

Submitted by Pbarnhart: As soon as Facebook was officially opened to adults two years ago, Laurie Rozakis, 55, was logging on to the popular social networking site. 'Facebook is a very cool way to relieve boredom,' the Farmingdale resident said. 'It makes me feel young again. (Read More)

Apr 23, 2008

louisgray.com In the spirit of unifying comments from disparate services across the Web, Plaxo and Disqus made a strong announcement Tuesday, giving users the ability to have comments made within their lifestreaming service, Plaxo Pulse, to flow back to the original blog. The company's VP of Marketing, John McCrea, eagerly said the addit (Read More)

Apr 20, 2008

TechCrunch Ambient Sound Investments (ASI), the investment company established by the four co-founding engineers of Skype has invested $235,000 USD in United Dogs and Cats Ltd, an Estonian startup that offers localized social networking sites for lovers of dogs and cats.UnitedDogs.com and UnitedCats.com offers traditional social netwo (Read More)

Apr 21, 2008

Submitted by Pbarnhart: Using Twine for a week - and quite frankly, I can’t taste the secret sauce. And looking at some of the other reviewers, I don’t think anyone else is finding it either. Even positive looks like the recent review at WebWare admit “it takes some study to understand what’s going on and how to exploit it. (Read More)

Apr 21, 2008

Submitted by Pbarnhart: The Internet, which is shorthand for "interconnected network" and is one of the most significant achievements in the history of communication, is often broken because applications don't interact. We spend all our time hopping from one island of information to another, repeating the same tasks, costing ourselves and our busi (Read More)

Apr 14, 2008

W3C Semantic Web Activity News The Semantic Web Education and Outreach (SWEO) Interest Group has published an Interest Group Note Cool URIs for the Semantic Web. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) allows users to describe both Web documents and concepts from the real world people, organizations, topics, things in a computer-processable way. Publish (Read More)

Apr 20, 2008

GigaOM Written by Mark Sigal, a digital media and Internet platform entrepreneur who has done eight startups, four of them as a co-founder. Call me a cynic, but there has to be more to the Web 2.0 story than accessorizing my Facebook page with one-dimensional pseudo applications. Sure, muscle memory may lead us to congregate, but (Read More)

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