TechCrunch:
Qwisk, which is launching today at the Real-Time CrunchUp, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser. The site, which is a product of Y Combinator-funded company Socialbrowse, connects with you with your (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Watch out Lexis-Nexis and WestLaw! Google’s coming: You can now read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts with Google Scholar. Expect an oligopoly (as in the legal resear (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
After 18 months of negotiation, the Open Web Foundation, a group made up of 106 employees of Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, some small startups and their lawyers, today released a legal document template for licensing o (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The OpenID Foundation has announced nominations and upcoming elections for six open community board seats.This year marks the Foundation's second election; last year, Snorri Giorgetti, Nat Sakimura, Chris Messina, David Recor (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've just found a new application for finding your Twitter followers, LinkedIn connections, and other friends from around the web on Facebook - all at once and all quite simply.This tool is called FBFriendFinder. It comes fr (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Professional social network LinkedIn has long had a feature that lets users update their status on their profile. But it’s plainly obvious that LinkedIn users don’t nearly use the status feature for mass communication as fre (Read More)
Mashable!:
Socializing around the music you like on Pandora just got easier with Twitter and Facebook share buttons. Added right inline with the transport controls at the top of the main interface are now easy-to-use Twitter and Faceboo (Read More)
Mashable!:
DailyBooth is a photo sharing site that has been growing in popularity, as it easily lets you capture a photo of yourself via webcam and share it on Twitter.Now, one of the largest photo sharing services for Twitter – yFrog – (Read More)
mashable:
More and more brands are starting to use Twitter, whether it’s to promote new products or connect with customers. The only problem that some brand marketers have with using Twitter is that it can be difficult to have a conver (Read More)
Mashable!:
This series is supported by PayPal X Innovate 2009, PayPal’s first dedicated developer conference. Register for $49 with the code ppblog3 or join us at $50 if you are a student.The API (Application Programming Interface) has (Read More)
Mashable!:
It looks like a Twitter phishing scam that we reported on last month has re-emerged today. This morning, I was greeted by a direct message saying “you’re on this vid” with a link. Still groggy, I clicked it, and quickly rea (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo! Meme, a rich-media microblog that originally started as a Portuguese-only web app and has since expanded to Spanish and English language versions, is often mistakenly called a Twitter clone.However, in stark contrast t (Read More)
Mashable!:
If you’re a Wordpress.com user you probably already know about how the service automatically sends your posts to Ping-o-Matic! to help promote them for you. Today the Publicize feature gets a major addition: the ability to se (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
WordPress.com just announced that its users can now use the service's Publicize feature to automatically send out a tweet whenever they post a new story. Wordpress's Publicize feature, which was only unveiled one week ago, al (Read More)
mashable:
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible (Read More)
TechCrunch:
No sooner do I write up TwittLink, then do I continue on down my list of sites to check out today and hit TBUZZ, arguably an even easier and faster way to share sites on Twitter. Whereas with TwittLink, a site owner has to in (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Just last night we were talking about the speed at which information is shared on the web, primarily through Twitter and Facebook. The default options for both of those services make you go to another page to do your sharing. (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Last week's flurry of Twitter DM spam from hacked or phished accounts wasn't the first instance of that and won't be the last.As long as people are willing to trust their Twitter log-in information to third parties - and don' (Read More)
OpenID:
Google, Yahoo!, and MySpace have launched support for the OpenID OAuth Hybrid Protocol, which combines OpenID authentication (sign in) with OAuth authorization (access control) into a single interface. Websites that accept O (Read More)
DiSo Project:
DiSo is built on the idea of implementing social networking concepts on existing standards where possible. One of those standards is XRDS Simple, a service description and discovery format that is a part of several recent and (Read More)