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Amazon's Mechanical Turk has fallen prey to social media spammers and it is now full of requests to spam bookmarking services for pennies per link. Although these HITs may stop

Fifteen or so years into the evolution of the web, we already have many of the key ideas and technologies in place to start describing and sharing personal preference information

The Google Reader team announced tonight that the wildly popular online feed reader now recommends additional feeds to users based on our subscription lists, web browsing history and "more." It's

Dusty Reagan, who runs the Twitter app FriendOrFollow, recently launched a new Twitter ad network called FeaturedUsers. Before you moan and groan about how Twitter is becoming too commercialized, listen

Silentale is a soon-to-launch startup whose goal is to consolidate your conversations and contacts from all the platforms you use including webmail, social networks, and even your mobile phone. Running

Winners - Web Services Web Services Winners In our article Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services, we noted that today's Web has terabytes of information available to

Streamy, which calls itself a "real-time news reading and sharing site," opened its doors today after an 18-month long private beta. Streamy is a mix between an RSS reader, a

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we continue our series on recommendation technologies, outline 10 ways that social media will

We'll be liveblogging the press call for the OpenSocial Foundation, a joint announcement by Google, Yahoo! and MySpace's Newscorp that we covered earlier today. It starts in just a few

Distributed social networking - where users can connect their profile, friends and other data across multiple sites - is still a relatively new concept and not fully developed. There are