I had the opportunity to sit down with Sean Greene, the Co-Founder of LaunchBox Digital in Washington, D.C. LauanchBox Digital provides entrepreneurs with seed funding to help get their startup off the ground.

National ID cards on the way? | Recent congressional vote on standardized, electronically readable driver's licenses raises fears about imminence of national IDs. Photos: Biometrics on guard | February 14, 2005, 4:00 AM PT | Declan McCullagh

There had been a lot of of speculation about Facebook joining OpenSocial once the platform had stabilized. It looks like other social networks are going to be able to leverage the power of the Facebook platform.

Facebook has just announced that they will be updating their Beacon system. Stories will no longer be published “without a user proactively consenting.”

Microsoft is planning to provide as part of Office 2008 for Mac — the final version of which is due January 2008 — technology that will allow users to export PowerPoint 2008 presentations onto their iPods and/or iPhones.

Dave Winer likes the idea of smaller niche Digg sites. That's nice when your closes 25 friends read every article on the web. What happens for those that don't?