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For a service that simply takes 140 characters of input and then blasts them out in front of potentially hundreds of thousands of readers at a time, there has been

Our second daily Comments Competition winner is theharmonyguy, for an insightful explanation of Googler Kevin Marks' "Social Cloud" theory. Congratulations theharmonyguy, you've won a $30 Amazon voucher, courtesy of our competition

Do you think that open standards, data portability and questions of online identity are important? We do; we think these issues are the foundation upon which many of the most

Yesterday, Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger were targeted by a person or persons unknown, in a denial-of-service attack (DDOS) that attempted to silence the voice of one individual. The

The mainstream media backed social news site Mixx announced today the availability of its new Application Programming Interface and the offering gives developers an opportunity to do things that no

A new nonprofit organization called the Open Web Foundation is launching this morning with backing from some of the biggest companies on the web and the involvement of some of

Last October, Yahoo announced the Yahoo Query Language, a language similar to the popular database language SQL. Then, this February, Yahoo also announced its first major product that made use

The OpenID Foundation has announced nominations and upcoming elections for six open community board seats. This year marks the Foundation's second election; last year, Snorri Giorgetti, Nat Sakimura, Chris Messina,

Lifestrea.ms is a powerful new lifestreaming service from Germany that you'll want to keep an eye on. It is a real testimony to the potential of the new web

Reframe It, a social web annotation tool we first reviewed last Fall, just announced that it has added integration with Twitter and Facebook to its features today. Thanks to this,