News is delivered in many different ways via the Internet. With so many blogs and news sites, it is sometimes hard to keep up and know if you're really getting Continue reading »

Written by Guest blogger, Andrew Watson In this article we'll compare Six Apart and Automattic, two independent firms focused on blogging software. Most other blog platforms are owned by big Continue reading »

Bay Partners, a San Francisco area venture capital fund that invests in Eventful, PicksPal, and Riya among others, has announced AppFactory a seed fund aimed at developers on the Facebook Continue reading »

File this one under the "bad ideas" folder. If you thought PayPerPost and ReviewMe, which some have likened to payola, were bad, get ready for Buy Blog Comments, a service Continue reading »

Just a week after acquiring online telephony service GrandCentral, Google has announced the $625M purchase of Postini - a company that offers "on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more Continue reading »

An AP report today states that Nielsen/NetRatings, one of the leading Internet stats services, will "scrap rankings" based on page views and replace it with how long visitors spend at Continue reading »

Amazon has long been one of my favorite sites on the web. It seems that every week I have a package arriving at my door from Amazon (or Threadless), but Continue reading »

This Tuesday social web browser Flock will release Version 0.9, as they inch towards the full 1.0. Version 0.9 is currently available to early adopters as a 'Release Candidate'. I Continue reading »

This week's poll is an extension of our 2007 Half-Year Web Technology Report, which reviewed the first six months of this year in web technology. In that report, I noted Continue reading »

Last week we wrote about Digital Life - the rise of life-like digital experiences. We argued that online worlds like Second Life are becoming increasingly more engaging because of their Continue reading »