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One of the first places I stop every morning is Gabe Rivera’s Techmeme. Both the blogs I contribute to show up on there from time to time and I remember being quite thrilled the first time it happened. Last night, The Techmeme Leaderboard was unleashed upon us and even before its formal release [...]

Michael Arrington’s announcement of Google’s plans to offer up a new set of APIs on November 5 has opened up a firestorm of discussion on the web. Part of the discussion is around semantics, which gives me quite the chuckle. Who cares if it is a social network or a social graph (although I did [...]

We have web office related news from Yahoo, Google, and … IBM (yes, you read that right). If you throw Zoho into the mix, the space is getting crowded fast.

It’s been talked about for a long time, but the (renamed) Google Docs is finally complete with the release of the presentation app.

TechCrunch is reporting that Yahoo has acquired the office suite Zimbra for $35MM in cash. If this news is confirmed, its huge. Yahoo is laying down the gauntlet here, to Microsoft, and especially to Google.
Is this a smart decision? Should Yahoo play Google’s game again? The web office space is still [...]

I am a big fan of SplashCast, and not just because the company is based a couple of hours down south in Portland. The company has been on a roll lately, beginning with participation in the launch of the Facebook platform earlier this year. Recently, SplashCast released a new and improved player [...]

For over a month, I have been sitting on a post about people search, wondering how to tie some of those thoughts together. The news that Facebook was going to open up itself up to search (see Techmeme discussion) makes me glad I waited, although the following has only passing resemblance to the original [...]

From Jeff Barr’s Twitter Stream, I found out about The Start-Up Project. The Start-Up Project is a set of half-day events that Amazon is hosting in several cities to showcase how the suite of web services that the company offers can help get companies get off the ground.

(Cross posted from my other blog)
My favorite company these days, Lijit, has a new feature. They actually scooped me on this by announcing the Blog Explorer on their blog while I was driving back from work. Earlier today, I noticed a new button at the bottom of my Lijit Wijit, and sure [...]

(A slightly different version was posted on my other blog)

One of the key features of today’s web, especially when it comes to audio and video is being able to use the distribution power of the internet as a viral means of spreading media. The Splashcast player is an embeddable Flash-based player that can be [...]