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Today's big news is that Amazon's S3 online storage service has experienced significant downtime. Allen Stern, who hosts his blog's images on S3, reported that the downtime lasted 3.5 over

Today was the first MySpace/MTV Candidate Dialogue, featuring US presidential candidate John Edwards. The townhall meeting style event was a joint presentation between MySpace's Impact channel and MTV's Choose or

Last year on its tenth birthday, Google announced its Project 10^100, a call for unique ideas to help as many people as possible. In the 12 months between then and

Today Adobe is holding an event called Engage, where it is explaining its Apollo web development platform for tech bloggers, developers and others in the Web industry. John Dowdell from

Alertle isn't your typical start page. A web-based RSS reader at its core, Alertle is really a new way of surfing the web.  The service allows you to "visit" various web sites

One of the most pleasing Web trends we're seeing in 2009 is the increasing penetration of web apps into the real world. Web applications for healthcare is one example. We

If you're a lobbyist / advocate, conspiracy theorist or Freakonomics fan, then you'll love DataMasher. The map-based mash up site just took the Sunlight Foundation's $10,000 grand prize in the

In a recent interview with VentureBeat, Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of Search Products & User Experience, spoke of Google's interest in social search and their future plans in that area. Social

This week there's been turmoil in the Digg world, as the Digg developers strive to reduce the influence of the top users - in other words make the system fairer.

To all hypochondriacs who yearn to make their imagined ailments seem more legit, pay attention. There exists a website that tells you what's currently making people in your area sick.