Last night Amazon announced the limited beta launch of the newest in its growing family of web services, SimpleDB. Amazon's latest service brings the cloud computing power of EC2 to Continue reading »

Microsoft launched two new contests today at its UltimateSteal site (the ultimate steal is getting Office for $60 as a student). The UltimateSteal Sweepstakes, both The Ultimate College Idol and Continue reading »

YouTube has begun experimenting with a visualization of related videos that's a poor knock-off of the Digg Swarm visualization tool. NewTeeVee says it's more fun than Digg Swarm but I Continue reading »

The official Google blog has a post tonight about a new project that's in closed, private beta. The program is called Knols, or "units of knowledge." Knols participants will write Continue reading »

A tipster informed us today that online storage solution Omnidrive has been having technical difficulties; and that the CTO has just left the company. Omnidrive's forums, both the official one Continue reading »

Earlier this week we announced our Best BigCo of 2007, Facebook. In this post we're announcing our pick for Best LittleCo. We're also asking for your nominations for Most Promising Continue reading »

Users with a pro account at Flickr are now able to view a variety of interesting statistics about the viewers of their photos. Heather Champ said in a post on Continue reading »

Fox Interactive announced today that it has a deal with Sprint to offer one-click access to the new MySpace Mobile portal when it launches early next year. Sprint and Fox Continue reading »

Yahoo! has released a new plugin for Wordpress that adds its "Shortcuts" search popups to blog content. Shortcuts are informational popups that operate similarly to Snap's SnapShots and AdaptiveBlue's SmartLinks. Continue reading »

I'm getting this feeling of deja vu... haven't we been through all this before? Today Opera filed an antitrust complaint with the European Union against Microsoft. According to Opera, the Continue reading »