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If Twitter is anything, it's a platform for communication. Tweet and reply. Follow and be followed. As Robert Scoble recently pointed out, "the secret to Twitter is how many people

Two months ago, Google released a widget for iGoogle that allowed users to search for keywords in election related speeches on YouTube. Today, Google expanded the scope of this search

Seen the headlines recently? These are scary times. Entrepreneurs are far too busy to focus on the mayhem in the markets - and they know that they cannot do anything

I went out to dinner last night, and when I came home and switched on my TV, John McCain had already won the Republican primary in New Hampshire. But on

When Google announced Android, its software platform for mobile devices, it released an SDK for developers to work with, but it also promised to eventually release the code under an

There's no denying that the campaign of Barack Obama has embraced social networking and new media like no campaign in history. Obama has accounts on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Digg,

Anyone who has ever tried to keep the peace is told to avoid two topics: religion and politics. The latter is precisely the reason a flame war has ensued on

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Who_is_Blogging_and_Why_Is_the_Blogosphere_in_a_Digestion_Phase'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Last week Marshall and I attended the Blog World Expo conference. The gathering, held in Las Vegas, drew over 1,500

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Technorati_Launches_New_Topics_Feature'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Blog search engine Technorati today announced a new feature: topics. Topics is a river-of-news style aggregator of posts from top

In preparation for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4th, China has started to block a number of web sites, including Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, Hotmail, and