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Strands, the recommendation and lifestreaming service we've written about here before, announced a much anticipated deal this morning that will put it in the driver's seat for financial recommendations served

Feeling information overloaded? No doubt one of the sources of stress in your life are the unread items that await you daily in your RSS reader. No matter how many

FriendFeed, one of our favorite lifestreaming applications, launched the beta version of its new user interface today. The new version adds features that allow for organizing friends into different groups,

Maybe it's better to host your own. That's the thinking coming from a growing number of early technology adopters as service after service goes down, sells out or otherwise frustrates

The era of dominance is shrinking. IBM dominated tech longer than Microsoft did, and Google's period of dominance will be even shorter. As with IBM and Microsoft, a great and

We were pretty excited when we first heard about Sweetcron, a self-hosted lifestreaming application developed by Yongfook. Today, after a bit of a delay, Sweetcron has finally released its software

Last week we took a poll asking for your favorite 'light' blogging service. These are blogging services that make it very easy for you to share content and media. While

Cross-site activity stream aggregator FriendFeed has answered the loud calls of users and developers and today released the first version of its Application Programming Interface, or API. The FriendFeed experience

On Monday, Facebook released a sample site that demonstrates how Facebook Connect (previous coverage), their new authentication methodology for logging into third-party web sites, will work. On the demo site,

Today, AOL announced that they're deploying Socialthing for Websites across the company's network of 75+ MediaGlow web properties. The service transforms static sites into social web destinations by allowing visitors