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The Washington Post launched a new political database site today, lead by a top political blogger it snapped up this month from a leading new media site. Are these the

An interesting note came across our inboxes just now - the source of yesterday's FriendFeed spam has been revealed. If you've been using the social aggregator FriendFeed, then you may

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/programming/Bungee_Labs_Next_Generation_Web_Development_Platform'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Yesterday in the Web 2.0 Expo booths, I checked out Bungee Labs - an ambitious new on-demand, web-based development environment

Today, Amazon launched a new service which brings the company's payment processing tools to mobile devices. Called the "Amazon Mobile Payments Service," the technology includes a set of APIs (application

First the obligatory disclaimer: I work as a part-time freelancer for Broadband Mechanics, the creators of PeopleAggregator. I've actually done analysis and writing work on the PeopleAggregator project itself. So

Google today announced the release of a new API for graphing social net connections on the web at large. The Social Graph API is a way for developers of social

"I Tried YQL Execute and All I Got Was an Authenticated Javascript API Processing Layer in the Cloud" There's a great amount of data available on the Web in APIs

The long awaited and ultra-ambitious Encyclopedia of Life finally came online on Tuesday, but no sooner did it spring to life than, like an infant version of one of the

I've been thinking a lot about the Facebook Platform (who hasn't?), and about who is in the best position to take them on. The obvious answer is MySpace, still the

Apple today previewed a new version of its iPhone firmware, as well as a new version of its SDK for the iPhone. Among the highlights of the announcement were the