So-called "Black Friday," the day after the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, is the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season, and this year online retailers saw traffic surge with Continue reading »

When it's time to do some document creation, there are many reasons to look beyond Microsoft Office. Most of the software available outside of what Microsoft offers, though, can Continue reading »

This is a guest post by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Economic_Idiocy_of_Blocking_Social_Media_Traffic'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = Continue reading »

The NY Times has another of those 'Mobile Web isn't living up to the hype' articles that have become so familiar since, oh, the late 90's when WAP came onto

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Indian company InstaColl today formally launched Live Documents, a mini-office suite of products similar to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Live Documents has already received plenty of press coverage, mainly because Continue reading »

Onaswarm is a new lifestreaming application from Toronto's David Janes and BlogMatrix. Lifestreaming is something people do with a growing class of services that let you display all your activities Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Spam_Will_Outnumber_Legit_Email_For_First_Time'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Reasearchers at IDC predict that this year the number of spam messages sent will eclipse the amount of legit email Continue reading »

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, today published a blog post about what he terms the Graph, which is similar (if not identical) to his Semantic Web vision. Continue reading »

At the risk of reporting rumors (ahem), I can't resist making a note of this one. For the past couple of weeks we have been analyzing LinkedIn and comparing it Continue reading »