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AOL's social news site relaunched today under the new name Propeller. No longer "the new Netscape", Propeller seems on face like a clone of a clone. There may, though, be

Dave Winer has announced OPML 2.0 (in public review status currently). OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language. In semi-laymens terms, OMPL is a common XML data format for outlines

While separate search boxes have long been a standard feature of every major browser (except for Chrome), their functionality and intelligence has not gone much beyond autocompleting searches. Yahoo is

Greg Linden just posted on his blog that Findory, the personalized news service he created and has been running for the past 3 years, is to slowly "fade away". In

It's been nearly 4 years since news aggregation site Techmeme (or tech.memeorandum, as it was called back then) launched to the world. Since then it's grown to be the leading

Cooliris - the extension that transforms your browser into a 3D environment for thumbing through photos and videos - has been a crowd favorite for its creative use of the

Very interesting John Battelle-hosted conversation with Terry Semel, Yahoo CEO, at the conference. The difference between outlook and attitude between Semel and Barry Diller is stark. On the one hand,

I wondered how long it would take before Pageflakes responded to the new-look My Yahoo beta, given that the sharing and 'pages' features in My Yahoo beta are very similar

Written by Sramana Mitra I have written a few pieces already addressing the disjointed nature of the web, whereby, you go one place for content, another for community, and a