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Not the usual fare on TechBizMedia, but too good to pass up. Om Malik is an idol of ours. From his roots in India, to his quality as a journalist and blogger, one could say that TechBizMedia owes its existence to Om. So it’s good to see that he will now have [...]

The success of Facebook is well known to most people. But Facebook is not the only social networking service that has been seeing bright times in recent days. Ning, a social networking company started by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini announced Series C funding of $44 million.

I am not sure how popular SlideShare is, but I find it extremely useful. It is a great resource for some great (and some terrible) presentations, has a cool interface and puts social features around it. The Facebook app is also quite nice. Via Webyantra comes the news of SlideShare’s advisory [...]

I’ve been using Pownce for a few days now and Twitter for some time (after resisting for a very long time). I am still trying to understand whether Pownce will succeed or not. After all Twitter has critical mass, Evan Williams, and a loyal fan following. On the other hand, the first [...]

As seen on Techmeme, Google has made some of Feedburner’s premium services free to everyone, specifically TotalStats and MyBrand. This is in line with previous acquisitions, where paid services were made free following the acquisition. As someone who paid for TotalStats till today, I am delighted to see this move. As Joe Duck [...]

37Signals, whose products include Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack and Campfire, has opened up two of their products to use OpenID based authentication. Now you can use OpenID to log into your Basecamp account and Highrise account. OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user identity management. You can find more information about 37Signal’s OpenID implementation [...]