The problem with running a site that relies heavily on users to generate content, is that it puts a disproportionate amount of power in the hands of those users (in Continue reading »

This is guest post by Dan Zarrella, a social media marketing consultant. You can follow him on Twitter here. While some people have said that Digg has begun to lose Continue reading »

Last week we wrote a piece questioning whether perhaps 37Signals had lost focus with the upgrades to their popular Backpack organizational tool. We argued that the changes were morphing Backpack Continue reading »

In the midst of the current US economic slowdown it is clear that the good old days are over. At least for some chunk of 2008, more likely for the Continue reading »

Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks did an analysis of current frontpage stories on digg, the popular social news site that started out as a tech competitor to Slashdot. Allen noted Continue reading »

Bertalan Meskó from the excellent ScienceRoll blog has uploaded a presentation he gave recently at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference. The presentation, embedded below, is a great overview of Continue reading »

A couple of weeks ago we wrote about the emerging phenomenon of weekend code-a-thons in which programmers and designers get together over a short period of time to try to Continue reading »

On Friday, a massive outage occured at Amazon Web Services that generated a wave of negativity and criticism in the blogosphere. Not long ago, Rackspace, one of the world's largest Continue reading »

Are we witnessing the emergence of the Long Tail of politics over the course of this presidential election cycle in the United States? Central Desktop CEO Isaac Garcia thinks so, Continue reading »

1. You don’t need to apologize for calling it Web 3.0. Of course the Web does not upgrade in one go like a company switching to Vista. But there is Continue reading »