Recently the winners of the MobileMonday Peer Awards were announced, coinciding with the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We covered the 25 nominees here. The award recognizes early stage and Continue reading »

GeoXtract is a powerful tool that allows you to integrate your own data with Google Maps or Google Earth. Using this desktop application, you can create a personalized map with Continue reading »

The problem with running a site that relies heavily on users to generate content, is that it puts a disproportionate amount of power in the hands of those users (in Continue reading »

This is guest post by Dan Zarrella, a social media marketing consultant. You can follow him on Twitter here. While some people have said that Digg has begun to lose Continue reading »

Last week we wrote a piece questioning whether perhaps 37Signals had lost focus with the upgrades to their popular Backpack organizational tool. We argued that the changes were morphing Backpack Continue reading »

Blist, a darling of the DEMO 08 conference, is announcing this morning that they have raised a $6m "A Round" of venture capital. Who knew that spreadsheets made social = Continue reading »

Here's a test for Web 2.0. Cuba's Fidel Castro announced yesterday morning that he is resigning from his post as ruler of that communist country. What better way to celebrate Continue reading »

In the midst of the current US economic slowdown it is clear that the good old days are over. At least for some chunk of 2008, more likely for the Continue reading »

Our 9th daily Comments Competition winner is Falafulu Fisi, for his comment on our post Web 2.0 Meets Medicine. Falafulu told us that the "current state of the art in Continue reading »

Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks did an analysis of current frontpage stories on digg, the popular social news site that started out as a tech competitor to Slashdot. Allen noted Continue reading »