last100 reports that Joost, a hot Internet TV startup from the founders of Skype, may come out with a set-top-box (i.e. allowing Joost to connect to a TV) and a Continue reading »

Rumors of a potential acquisition by Amazon today sent shares of Netflix up over 5.5%. Amazon closed down nearly 2%. The price of the rumored acquisition is anywhere from $1.5 Continue reading »

In the US mobile phone carriers run closed networks: my Samsung phone will only run on the Verizon network, and if I switch to another carrier, the applications I Continue reading »

Today I traveled to Sydney, Australia for a Web 2.0 forum. Most of the top Aussie web 2.0 startups were in attendance, as well as an interesting mix of Australian Continue reading »

Clearspring is going to annouce tomorrow that it was chosen by NBC to be its exclusive widget platform for the next year. This is a major deal for Clearspring, Continue reading »

Yesterday we ran a story about remarks made by Yahoo!'s VP of Front Doors, Tapan Bhat, at the Next Web conference in Amsterdam. Bhat said that the dominant web paradigm Continue reading »

Watch out Food Network, here comes Rouxbe, a start up from Vancouver, Canada that produces some of the nicest instructional cooking videos I've seen. Founded by Dawn Thomas and Joe Continue reading »

More Google Maps news: Today Google announced a partnership with budget airline Jet Blue that will put Google maps into the seat backs on their airplanes. Sounds sort of silly Continue reading »

Yesterday, Google signed what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind deal for the search company to sell display advertising on a third-party site, reports Red Herring. That site is Glam Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Movable_Type_4_0_Announced_Becomes_Social_Media_Platform'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Six Apart is announcing today the beta release of Movable Type 4, a much anticipated upgrade to a blog platform Continue reading »