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Last week at the SemTech 2008 Conference that took place in San Jose, Yahoo! Researcher Peter Mika spoke in detail about the company's new SearchMonkey search platform initiative. Mika talked

Chris Messina and Will Norris, two leading community figures working on distributed social networking, identity and data portability, are joining the staff of OpenID provider Vidoop, the company will announce

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/On_Mozilla_and_The_Evolution_of_the_Browser'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Interesting posts recently from two people who have an important role in defining the future of the browser. Firstly, I

Written by David Lenehan of Polldaddy and edited by Richard MacManus. David also covered the Future of Web Apps event [1, 2] in London this week. Photos from Route79, via

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Technorati_s_Opportunities_and_Exit_Options'; About 2 months ago, HitWise published a report stating that Technorati, the leading blog search company, had for the first time fallen behind Google BlogSearch in

Most of us have profiles on a wide variety of services these days. Thankfully, most of these profiles are available in machine-readable microformats like hCard or XFN (XHTML Friends Network).

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/programming/The_Structured_Web_A_Primer'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; There is some controversy floating around the blogosphere about the nature of the next web. We got a clear signal

this February, Google released its Social Graph API, which allows developers to give users the option to easily find data on their social connections around the web. Google itself, however,

Today at the Defrag Conference, Kevin Marks from Google gave a presentation on OpenSocial. Before working at Google, Kevin was Principal Engineer at Technorati. He's also well known as one

Spotted on the blogosphere (via Ryan Stewart): Macromedia's The Kiwi Project, which is about creating read/write web components for Flex. From the intro post: "With the rising interest in AJAX