Archive for April, 2008

So much of the blogging world seems to be about regurgitating news these days that plagiarism is a continual threat. Add in the fact that many online content providers don't understand that using someone else's content is wrong, plus sploggers, who steal your content on purpose to make a profit of of your work, and [...]

Gmail has been both savior and demon for me. As the person who regularly gets the “you are over your email quota” emails on the free email account provided by my ISP, Gmail lets me go months without ever having to think about cleaning out my inbox. Of course, that means I go months without [...]

Something I've noticed lately is that the social web has been having more than is fair share of traffic jams. As each application launches its own API (application programming interface), inviting other Web 2.0 apps to play in each sandbox, the communications seem to get bogged down. Who hasn't experienced this phenomenon lately? One application [...]

I knew the second that the New York Times article from Matt Richtel went across my feeds it was going to be the water cooler discussion du jour over the weekend. I'm sure it will have the entire blogosphere lit up like a Christmas tree by the time I log in tomorrow and check my [...]

With all the social media tools out there, the second most time-consuming activity after actually reading everyone you are following is figuring out who you should be reading. Most Twitter users and blog readers spend a significant amount of time trying to find the most relevant information. Aggregators like FriendFeed (our coverage) and Socialthing (our [...]

A common complaint I hear from colleagues online is that translating what they do online to the real world often seems impossible. When I talk to my friends and colleagues offline, they tell me they feel the online world “shuts them out”, like a giant high school clique only accessible to people with the “right” [...]

At the risk of making enemies, I'm one of the only people I've seen so far today not jumping up and down with excitement at Seesmic's purchase of Twhirl. I like the idea of Seesmic, even if I'm a videophobe myself. And I love Twhirl, and use it every second that I'm online. Here's my [...]

The latest promise of a spam-free search engine aided by the power of people, Twingly has entered closed beta status, with a planned release during the second quarter. The claim by the company's Swedish founders is that existing blog searches (such as Google's) were built for an American audience and don't work well in Europe [...]

Yesterday marked the official launch of blinkx BBTV, which is aimed to provide “a high-quality television experience over the internet” by offering a large library of independent films and premium programming from existing partners of blinkx. The new BBTV (BroadBand TeleVision) platform is now being offered as a free download and makes use of blinkx’s [...]