According to a New York Times story this morning, circulation across the US newspaper industry fell about 3 percent over the spring and summer compared with figures from the same Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/Microsoft_Enterprise_Search_To_Go_Free'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Microsoft announced today that it will give out a free version of its enterprise search product, dubbed Microsoft Search Server Continue reading »

IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet conglomerate that runs some of the web's most well-known brands, announced that it will be broken up into 5 companies. Current head of the company, Barry Diller,

The world's largest social networking site today announced that it would be launching a new advertising program it calls "HyperTargeting," which uses profile data to target ads to users. MySpace Continue reading »

TechCrunch has uncovered part of what Facebook will be announcing next week at ad:tech in New York. "Project Beacon" is an internal project that will allow Facebook to gather buying Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/University_Defies_RIAA_Demand_to_Release_Student_Downloaders_Names'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The University of Oregon (my alma mater, coincidentally) is believed to be the first US educational institution to refuse an

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Amazon_S3_Exceeds_99_99_Uptime'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; We're hearing of more and more startups using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) for their storage needs; and this stat

NYTimes.com has today launched a new version of its technology section, which includes more aggregation of news from around the Web. Of most interest perhaps is that its Techmeme-like news Continue reading »

The big news of the day is that MySpace, the leading social networking platform, has joined Google's OpenSocial project as a partner. OpenSocial is a set of common APIs for Continue reading »

For the most recent episode of Read/WriteTalk I sat down with David Karp, the founder of Tumblr. Tumblr is a platform that makes it easy to create Tumblelogs - Continue reading »