November 2007 Archives
Read/WriteWeb Network blog last100 is reporting that MTV Networks has decided to put every episode of "South Park" online for free sometime next year. MTV decided to put South Park
In June, we published a post entitled Swap Meet 2.0 that took a look at a handful of sites at which people buy and sell handmade goods on the Internet.
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digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_is_expirimenting_with_Digg_style_voting'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; A substantial portion of the web world is turning today to look at a small experiment underway at Google, but
With the rise of MP3s and other forms of downloadable music, the venerable mixtape, which Wikipedia says gained mass popularity in the 1980s, may be going the way of the
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One of the highlights of October's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was the emergence of 'Semantic Apps' as a force. Note that we're not necessarily talking about the Semantic
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Yahoo! tonight announced the release of the latest version of the Yahoo! Widgets platform, version 4.5. For developers, the platform includes a range of new features, including the ability to
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I've been thinking a lot about user centric identity over the last few weeks. One of the 5 Big Themes from the Defrag Conference was the importance of user
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We've written about San Francisco-based Kiva.org, a not-for-profit organization that arranges interest-free microloans to entrepreneurs in developing nations, a couple of times before (here and here). Kiva has been a
Yesterday we noted the launch of a new Nasdaq stock market index tracking only Internet companies, called the NASDAQ Internet Index. The index (^QNET) will track a diverse range of
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digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Afrigator_The_Best_of_African_Social_Media_in_Real_Time'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; African social media aggregator Afrigator held a launch party in Johannesburg last night and unveiled the beta of the team's
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