As Dilbert knows, everything is a platform today. The trouble is, some very smart people are trying to figure out the definition of what makes a platform. Although a lot Continue reading »

MatchMine, a Massachusetts company building a cross-platform media recommendation engine, announced this morning that they have received a $10 million investment from The Kraft Group. The company released an early Continue reading »

On the latest edition of our podcast show, Read/WriteTalk, Sean Ammirati sat down with Salim Ismail, the head of Yahoo‚Äôs Brickhouse. In this role, Salim is exposed to hundreds of Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gaming_news/3Tera_to_Bring_Grid_Computing_to_Game_Development'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Massively multiplayer online games are big business. Blizzard's World of Warcraft, for example, has over 6 million users paying up Continue reading »

Earlier this week we wrote about the classic approach to the semantic web and the difficulties with that approach. While the original vision of the layer on top of the Continue reading »

Blog software vendor Six Apart this afternoon posted a long rumination, with video, on the "social graph" and how vendors should relate to it. The social graph is the network Continue reading »

This week Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! for a staggering $350M. It seems like only yesterday that Zimbra was the buzz of the 2005 Web Conference. But in two years, Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/CollegeHumor_Signs_with_Major_Talent_Rep'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Online humor site CollegeHumor has signed with one of the leading talent agencies in Hollywood, the United Talent Agency. UTA Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/programming/The_Best_and_Worst_Things_About_Google_s_Shared_Stuff'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Google hunters ferreted out a new feature late last night called Google Shared Stuff. The project is obviously far from Continue reading »

Watch out Tumblr, here comes Soup. Soup is an easy to use tumble blogging application that includes two killer features: social networking (kinda) and outside activity streams. It's sort of Continue reading »