digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Nearly_Never_Ending_Market_for_Niche_Social_Networks'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; A niche social network for people recovering from addiction, called SoberCircle, hit Del.icio.us popular this morning and it made me Continue reading »

In the heyday of the Facebook hype (it seems so long ago now!), Facebook was going to eat LinkedIn’s lunch. Based on recent experience, I don’t think so. I recently Continue reading »

Is Amazon supporting Open Social? If they are, that would be big news. If they have decided not to, that would be big news too. We reported last night that Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/5_Essential_Mobile_Web_Apps'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; This week we ran a contest asking you to tell us your favorite Mobile Web apps. We got over 50 Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/MyOffice_Full_Featured_Groupware_Tool_on_Facebook'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Earlier this week, I posted lamenting the lack of a good office/groupware collaboration tool in Facebook. Many of the commenters Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Who_is_Blogging_and_Why_Is_the_Blogosphere_in_a_Digestion_Phase'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Last week Marshall and I attended the Blog World Expo conference. The gathering, held in Las Vegas, drew over 1,500 Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Yahoo_Says_the_Future_Will_be_Modeled_on_Facebook'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Saul Hansell at the New York Times gets some people talking at Google and Yahoo! for a write up today Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Hyped_New_Platforms_Explaining_the_Difference_Between_One_and_the_Other'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Platforms here, platforms there - everyone's launching a platform it seems. Today's newest platforms, a content storage platform from Box.net Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/soccer/50_000_Fans_Acquire_English_Football_Club'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Earlier this year MyFootballClub.co.uk was launched with the intent to gather together a crowd of football-obsessed Internet users to pool 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