Last night at the offices of blogging software company Six Apart, engineers and social media specialists from a number of companies large and small met to discuss proposed standards for Continue reading »

Our favorite URL shortening service, Bit.ly, has just released a Firefox plug-in that you'll probably want to add to your browser. It lets users hover over shortened URLs from a Continue reading »

Music mashup site shows how User Experience is done. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/music/Hype_Machine_Listen_in_Full_to_the_50_Most_Blogged_Albums';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';MP3 blog aggregator Hype Machine launched a new microsite today called the Music Blog Zeitgeist. Continue reading »

Developer Paul Mison has created an interesting Flickr mashup that shows you a map of the locations with the most photos based on a criterion of your choice. By default, Continue reading »

Don't you hate it when you click a link only to discover it wasn't a web page, but a slow-loading PDF instead? Maybe it's time for publishers to find something Continue reading »

The Sunlight Foundation's mashup site Capitol Words relaunched this week and now offers a very handy way to see what keywords are being used in the US Congress in general Continue reading »

Ambitious online music magazine Idiomag serves up synchronized songs, photos, videos and articles from and about artists it believes you'll like, based on your past behavior. Today the company is Continue reading »

Taylor McKnight has been called a "serial mashup developer" and he's involved in some of the coolest mashup sites we've seen in recent years. Three years ago he won the Continue reading »

When it comes to storing personal digital data in the cloud and serving it up in interesting ways - we're in the very early days of a brand new paradigm. Continue reading »

Three weeks ago we wrote about the release of the new Application Programming Interface (API) of sophisticated note taking system Evernote. We said we were excited to see what outside Continue reading »