Lately the echo chamber of the blogosphere inhabited by the Gillmor Gang (of which I am a member) has been caught in a loop of Twitter-FriendFeed convulsions. Steve Gillmor believes that Twitter is the communications medium of the future...

What's wrong with the "friends connection" programs announced by Facebook, MySpace and Google? Many people have been trying to explain the principle of data portability as if it were a new concept, but it's actually not. It's been on our PCs for years.

Business planning can be nerve racking, especially during the beginning stages when seeking advice on a product or ideas. Trademarks, copyrights, and patents are all great ways to protect a concept but before those steps can be taken, inevitably ideas wil

Recent announcements by MySpace, Facebook and Google pointed to the same trend: Online social networks are blending with each other and other websites.

With new data portability projects from Facebook, MySpace, and Google, the social-networking experience is on the verge of getting either a lot smoother or a lot sloppier.

According to the Web User News, MySpace plans to support Semantic Web technologies. From the article, it’s unclear exactly how the world’s largest social networking site plans to support RDF, RDFa or microformats. It may be still too early to celebrat

As expected, Google unveils a preview of Friend Connect, a way to add social features to a Web site without programming. Will it eradicate the social-networking "walled garden"?

Anytime you look on the front page of Digg, you will often see headlines that start like “Ten ways to…” or “Top Ten Worst…”. And let’s face it, chances are pretty good that you often read these kinds of posts yourself, because they are just

A new survey says business leaders want to use Web 2.0 technologies, they just haven’t been able to get their heads around the concept — at least not as a business strategy anyway. And while plenty of employees are using these tools, few midmarket com

By now, of course, you've seen the story of the weekend: Microsoft walking away from its offer to Yahoo, after first raising its bid (though not high enough for Yahoo). Microsoft chose not to go hostile recognizing that would make a bad situation even wor