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Cross network web IM service Meebo is announcing today the hire of CNet and Warner Music vet Carter Brokaw as the company's new Chief Revenue Officer. Along with that announcement

Over the past few years, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen's star has been waning. Ever since the web 2.0 trend started to become popular (around 2004 till now), Nielsen's 'keep

Web metrics firm Compete released their latest "Candidate FaceTime" metric yesterday, which measures how many hours people are spending across the social networking profiles of US presidential candidates. Not surprisingly,

Matthew Robson, a 15-year-old intern at analyst firm Morgan Stanley recently helped compile a report about teenage media habits. Overnight, his findings have become a sensation...which goes to show that

Prior to 2001, gilded hard cover encyclopedias were cracked to fact check everything from raptor names to State capitals. Today the world's most popular English encyclopedia is more often used

Yesterday, amid all the news of Twitter's arrival into both Microsoft's Bing and the Google search engine, another major announcement was being made. MySpace is giving up on trying to

Can you imagine a news-delivering web application so compelling that you would pay a couple of dollars per month for it? What would it look like? That's the challenge facing

Blogs just got a whole new audience: the casual reader. There has been some concern as of late that mainstream web users don't really read blogs, but a new Facebook

Facebook is getting old. No, people aren't getting tired of it, it's actually getting old, as in its population is aging. In May of 2008, the median age for Facebook

The integration of sensors with social networks will lead to real-time data and more useful web apps. In recent posts we reviewed an MIT experiment called WikiCity, that gathered real-time