Today in San Francisco social networking site Facebook officially announced their much talked about open platform, for companies wanting to hook into the Facebook network. There's plenty of blog coverage Continue reading »

Google News and Techmeme are two services that I use extensively every day. They are also two services whose technology is way over my head and are both eminently impressive. Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Facebook_Platform_The_Road_to_IPO'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Today Facebook is going to formally announce its plans to become an open platform. We know that the platform will Continue reading »

Written by Nitin Karandikar At the Searchology press conference last week, Google announced a slew of new features that are getting integrated into their main search engine. The key focus Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Facebook_Platform_The_Road_to_IPO'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; This week the Wall Street journal published an excellent piece on the upcoming Facebook Platform, which Josh also covered for Continue reading »

Editor's note: Sramana Mitra is currently running a series on her blog reviewing the photo sharing industry. In this Read/WriteWeb post, she looks at Flickr's offering using her Web Continue reading »

Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks has an interesting post today about Ask.com, in which he lays out his strategy for getting the search engine back on track. That caught my Continue reading »

Last week, I attended the Internet Identity Workshop. As an attendee with less exposure to the user centric identity, an early session provided an great overview of how the Continue reading »

Phil Wainewright has a compelling article on his ZDNet blog, arguing that the recent acquisitions of online advertising companies by the bigcos (Google, Microsoft, et al) is evidence that the Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Universal_Search_is_Vertical_Search_Space_Finished'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Back in September of last year we wrote about the rise of vertical search engines here. In that article we Continue reading »