Open source software development tools provider SourceForge.net, today officially launched their SourceForce.net Marketplace, an eBay-like online market for buying and selling open source services and support. The Marketplace has been Continue reading »

The open identity system OpenID 2.0 was launched today at the Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View, after what Marshall Kirkpatrick recently described as "a long, long time of political

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Facebook_Adds_Global_Opt_Out_for_Beacon_and_Apologizes'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted on the company blog this morning apologizing for missteps with the roll-out of their much Continue reading »

Blockbuster has had a rough year, posting a loss last quarter of $35 million and closing over 500 stores in the past year, but a new report out by the Continue reading »

Nielsen, the brand name synonymous with measuring the size of a crowd gathered around a handful of media outlets in the old broadcast model, has decided it needs to get Continue reading »

Today Technorati, one of the leading blog search engines along with Google Blog Search and Bloglines/Ask.com, launched a re-design. I chatted with new Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra today about it. Continue reading »

Adobe, which celebrated its 25th birthday over the weekend, today announced the release of Flash Media Server 3, the delivery platform for its near ubiquitous Flash technology. Perhaps the most Continue reading »

Controversial "word of mouth marketing" company PayPerPost, which we called "a sketchy operation" in a post in October, told users via email that they had reached 100,000 members (or, as Continue reading »

Last week we wondered if maybe MoveOn was a bit premature in declaring victory when Facebook changed their Beacon advertising system to be explicitly opt-in. Was Facebook still gathering information Continue reading »

A new forecast from ZenithOptimedia predicts that the ad spending will jump 6.7% globally to $486 billion. For online ad spending, the news is especially good. Zenith expects Internet ad