According to the New York Times, MySpace is planning to launch a startup incubator that would nurture the development of new web companies, presumably to feed its growing widget universe. Continue reading »

Amazon is entering the second leg of their Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and they're calling on Amazon customers to help them decide which unpublished author scores the grand prize that Continue reading »

Facebook has long been a big contributor to the open source movement, and releases a number of their in-house projects under open source licenses. They even provide a a mirror Continue reading »

With the rise of online video, broadband providers are starting to feel a strain on their networks. In order to combat network congestion, Time Warner has a solution: charge for Continue reading »

The Library of Congress and photosharing site Flickr today announced a partnership that will put photos from the LoC's collection online in a social environment and users to interact with Continue reading »

I admit an unhealthy addiction to Scrabble. I have been playing almost daily for many years. I think my girlfriend and I own 5 or 6 different versions of the Continue reading »

Sun Microsystems announced today that had entered into an agreement to acquire open source database company MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and assumed stock options. MySQL is used Continue reading »

Besides being the day that Macworld crashed Twitter, today was also Wikipedia's seventh birthday. In the 7 years since Wikipedia was publicly launched on January 15, 2001, the online encyclopedia Continue reading »

Probably the most anticipated announcement that Apple CEO Steve Jobs made at the annual Macworld expo this morning was that of the MacBook Air: a 13.3", LED backlit notebook computer Continue reading »

Last July MySpace deleted the profiles of more than 29,000 registered sex offenders who had been using the social networking site. The sheer number of sex offenders using the site Continue reading »