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Turning Your Browser into Mr. Hooper
Written by Guest Author / August 21, 2009 2:00 PM / 7 Comments
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Imagine a random web. Your favorite current affairs news blog, which couldn't survive on Viagra ads, is now charging subscriptions. Your e-tail site of choice keeps recommending country music, which Continue reading »


Why Jeremiah Owyang Is Leaving Forrester Research
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 21, 2009 12:10 PM / 15 Comments
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Jeremiah Owyang knows what he wants and he knows how to get it, fast. Just short of two years after joining Forrester, the second biggest professional analyst firm in the Continue reading »


The Real-Time Web Is Not Hype: We Are All Traders Now
Written by Bernard Lunn / August 14, 2009 2:00 PM / 8 Comments
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Hype cycles, like all cycles, are getting shorter. People want to be the first to say, "You heard it here first, folks: this or that hot thing you hear about Continue reading »


Gartner Hype Cycle 2009: Web 2.0 Trending Up, Twitter Down
Written by Richard MacManus / August 11, 2009 7:36 PM / 21 Comments
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Analyst firm Gartner has just released its latest Hype Cycle white paper, detailing some of the biggest trends in technology this year. According to the report, cloud computing, e-books and Continue reading »


Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 11, 2009 4:07 PM / 57 Comments
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Maybe it's better to host your own. That's the thinking coming from a growing number of early technology adopters as service after service goes down, sells out or otherwise frustrates Continue reading »


Twitter is Not An Emergency Broadcast System
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 11, 2009 10:56 AM / 20 Comments
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You might think that Twitter is a great way to spread important information quickly, including perhaps emergency notifications. Law.com reports today on a lawsuit from a Texas-based emergency broadcast technology Continue reading »


Facebook Users: Here's What FriendFeed Brings to the Family
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 10, 2009 3:35 PM / 22 Comments
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It's going to be a little like the Brady Bunch, this union between Facebook and the just-acquired social networking service FriendFeed. Both families will influence each other a lot, though Continue reading »


Do Too Many Friend Connections Harm Unique Thinking?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 5, 2009 9:35 AM / 11 Comments
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Does having too many friends in online social networks make radical, innovative thinking harder to develop and foster group-think instead? That's the conclusion of one scientist contributing to a recent Continue reading »


Web Squared: When Web 2.0 Meets Internet of Things
Written by Richard MacManus / August 5, 2009 5:30 AM / 13 Comments
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Recently Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle released a white paper entitled Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. It focuses squarely, pardon the pun, on the intersection of social web Continue reading »


Could Real Time Information Be An Unfair Advantage?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 4, 2009 8:03 PM / 9 Comments
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission is considering a ban on a stock market practice known as "flash trading," where supercomputers get access to information milliseconds before other traders and Continue reading »


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