It's time to announce the winners of our contest this week. Congratulations to AJ (comment 32) and Anne Helmond (comment 13), who won a free ticket to Under the Radar

In the hit movie The Truman Show, the 24-hour, commercial-free television show that chronicled the lead character's life (Jim Carrey, unknown to him) was monetized in a clever way: everything Continue reading »

Online reputation company Rapleaf sent us some interesting statistics about the most prominent OpenSocial companies, along with Facebook. Rapleaf gathered data on users of MySpace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Plaxo, and Hi5 Continue reading »

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Interactive Advertising Bureau released their 3rd quarter numbers estimating total ad buys online today. Big growth continues, but take it with a giant grain of salt. Last

In July, when this blog ran our Facebook Week, there was one article that I had planned that never made it to press. The article, called "The Facebook Office," was Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/YouTube_Premium_11_Say_They_d_Pay_Could_Yield_100m'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; IBM has released a survey of 2400 consumers, called the End of Advertising Survey, that found that %11 of respondents

Yahoo!, who has been a key contributor to open source distributed computing framework Hadoop, today announced an academic research partership with Carnegie Mellon University that will give students access to Continue reading »

Google today announced a $10 million challenge for developers to build mobile applications for its forthcoming Android mobile OS. Android was announced last Monday, instead of the widely expected GPhone Continue reading »

Angel-funded ActiveSymbols is a privately held company that was founded in 2003 to develop a visual search platform. Four years and six key patent filings later, the company is ready Continue reading »

The Under the Radar | Mobility event is coming up this week. It's on November 15, 2007, at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, California. Read/WriteWeb has a couple of