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Giant social networks Myspace and Facebook have plans to expand beyond their walls. Myspace announced on Thursday its Data Availability platform and Facebook countered quickly with Facebook Connect. Now it

In Web 1.0 there were a number of browser-based website creation platforms - e.g. Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod, Homestead and Brinkster (I myself used nearly all of those, back in the

It's the weekend - another hectic week has gone by. In this era of quick news fixes, PR regurgitation on tech blogs, and the 'quantity over quality' maxim most tech

Red Herring is reporting that AOL founders Steve Case and Ted Leonsis have invested $5.5-million, as a second round investment, into widget syndication platform Clearspring. Alex profiled ClearSpring back in

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), have launched an application development contest on both Google's Open Social and the Facebook Platform. The contest calls for developers to

According to the people at Twimbler, the answer is yes, but we're not so sure we see the point. Twimbler is a new Twitter mashup that uses a special hashtag

Tulsa, Oklahoma based authentication service Vidoop announced today that it has hired Scott Kveton, Chair of the OpenID Foundation, to be the company's VP of Open Platforms and the Director

Phil Wainewright wrote an excellent post recently entitled The great Web 2.0 application (s)mash-up. He starts by quoting Mohan Sawhney, professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management:  "Five years from

The Structured Blogging website has been upgraded and went live tonight. I re-designed the website and did the writing for it, under the employ of Marc Canter's Broadband Mechanics and

The video uploading platform announced by YouTube last night may not have been what many pundits expected but it could mark a major turning point for both YouTube and thousands