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July 1st brings the launch of a business finding search engine that is powered by referrals, Vendor City. The purpose of Vendor City is to make finding a trusted business who will do a good job for you easier and less of a headache. I think it is a solid concept, though it needs a [...]

As part of the ongoing series about politics in social media, we turn our sites to political web site Ameritocracy. To its credit, this site differs somewhat from other political social sites. It doesn't try to be a strict social network around political candidate or opinion. It has a twist to help it stand out. [...]

I was excited to try out Evri, the new "semantic" search engine on the block. Usually our author Cyndy gets more excited about semantic web applications than I do. I'm ever hopeful of finding one that truly works and becoming sold on the whole idea of a semantic web, though. Sadly, I must continue to [...]

When the ship is sinking and the closest land is a tiny island, you want things and people that work and that bring benefit to the table in your lifeboat – it increases your chances of survival. This is Life 101 level knowledge, yet Twitter seems to have forgotten it lately. Even writing this post [...]

One of the people on my must-read Twitter follow list posted a link to a site called GlobMe earlier today in response to the deluge of tweeted complaints that followed a day spent looking at the Fail Whale as well as the lack of a reply tab in recent days. Heck, even the Twitter powers-that-be [...]

Earlier today I got to participate in the first ever Twebinar with Chris Brogan, Radian6 and other social media heavy hitters. I must say it was one of the more informative hours I've spent in quite some time.  It wasn't so much that the social media thought leaders were saying anything new, it was more [...]

Twitter may be the darling of the social media set right now and the addiction of many both in and out of social media circles, but it has certainly been going through some growing pains lately. Because of this, Twitter users have had to seek ways around the Twitter issues to make sure they don't [...]

I feel like the image that needs to go with this post is a stack of waffles judging by the amount of times we've written about the Microsoft and Yahoo on again / off again buyout affair.  It's made even more disappointing by how much I like Yahoo and how cringe-worthy its decisions throughout this [...]

Balsamiq Studios, LLC is a little start up with big ideas. They recently rolled out their first of several planned plug ins meant to make the web office a better place, called Mockups. I had the chance to speak with Balsamiq creator Giacomo "Peldi" Guilizzoni, and his big ideas for his start up impressed me, [...]