Digg's Jay Adelson has an interview in today's London Guardian that includes a few interesting nuggets concerning the future of the site. Yet more social features are coming and further Continue reading »

A few weeks ago, Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon, published a long technical paper on his blog about Amazon's highly available storage system called Dynamo. The paper itself Continue reading »

Steve Rubel has written a post bemoaning the lack of innovative Web products these days: "...I miss the days of 2004 when the class that includes Flickr, del.icio.us and others Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Hulu_Peaks_at_the_Public_with_a_Whimper'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Hulu, the online video project from Newscorp and NBC/Universal, with participation by Sony, MGM and others, has begun its highly Continue reading »

We all know the term 'Software as a Service (SaaS). The term SaaS was coined in a conference in 2005 and then popularized by Salesforce with its "No Software" motto. Continue reading »

We are about to witness the loud noise and mess that happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object. The irresistible force is personalization. This is the key to Continue reading »

It's interesting to see how the techniques and technologies of amateur, citizen journalists are adopted, co-opted, and integrated by the mainstream media. Take blogs, for example, which earlier in this Continue reading »

This morning we published a great piece by my colleague Alex Iskold that asked if Google should be afraid of Facebook. Alex concluded that, no, Facebook is not in the Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Poll_US_Attitudes_About_Internet_Are_Insane'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Zogby International and 463 Communications released the results last night of an interesting and well executed poll about the attitudes Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Should_Google_be_afraid_of_Facebook'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; In the latest issue of Fortune magazine, Josh Quittner wrote a page length article entitled Look Who's Worried Now (online Continue reading »