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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

For anyone who uses multiple calendars, you know that one of the big issues that's being addressed by numerous applications is getting your calendars to sync up with each other.

Net radio broadcasters have reached a deal with SoundExchange, the group that collects royalty fees for record labels, that will put a $50,000 cap on royalties for individual broadcasters. The

Google is getting some serious press, support, and power from Hollywood today. According to the New York Times, Google will be bringing on Seth MacFarlane, creator of the hilarious

University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student Adam Wilson has successfully tested a "brain wave monitor" to Twitter publishing interface, allowing him to compose a message merely by thinking and

The Wall Street Journal reports that Discovery Communications will be purchasing online information portal HowStuffWorks.com for $250 million. This would be Discovery's largest Internet acquisition to date. The company purchased

Our network blog has just announced an annual 'Day Without Google', starting tomorrow April 1st. ASE editor Charles Knight writes: "All we’re asking is that for One Day you try

For awhile we've been pushing the idea of Facebook evolving to support business social networking alongside the "social" social networking. But in order for that to work, the site needs

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/MyOffice_Full_Featured_Groupware_Tool_on_Facebook'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Earlier this week, I posted lamenting the lack of a good office/groupware collaboration tool in Facebook. Many of the commenters

I've resigned from my day job, so in 4 weeks time I will be fully self-employed. I'll be doing freelance analysis and writing work, plus an exciting project which I