digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_deals/New_VC_Model_For_Small_Scale_Financing'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; There is a great meme circulating about how the VC industry needs to adapt to a world with massively lower Continue reading »

Linden Labs, makers of Second Life, announced a partnership with IBM and nearly 30 other companies today to work on creating a layer of interoperability across all online virtual Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/programming/The_Structured_Web_A_Primer'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; There is some controversy floating around the blogosphere about the nature of the next web. We got a clear signal Continue reading »

MySpace is set to launch its 3rd party developer platform in just a few weeks, according to sources speaking to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch. If what Arrington is reporting is Continue reading »

According to comScore, social network Hi5 gets around 35 million uniques per month, putting it at a roughly similar size to Facebook. Alexa ranks Facebook 8th in the world -- Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Adam_vs_Eve_Does_The_Blogosphere_Have_A_Gender'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Sharon Brogan has been publishing the Watermark blog for the past four years. She keeps a page, aptly titled "Here Continue reading »

Tim O'Reilly and team have done some interesting research into the rise of Facebook as an application platform. They released a report entitled The Facebook Application Platform, which we've been Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_deals/Are_Recommendation_Engines_a_Threat_to_the_Long_Tail'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Two Wharton academics released an interesting paper last week that asks whether online recommendation services are a threat to the Continue reading »

The star of Adobe's annual MAX conference, held this year in Chicago between Sept. 30 and Oct. 3, was the web application. Web apps and their creation permeated nearly everything Continue reading »

A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times removed the pay wall in front of its TimesSelect service, which controlled access to much of the paper's archives and its Continue reading »