Technology Timeline

30Jul

Regator now supports OPML, personal feeds + extra invites

Directory 2.0 service Regator has moved towards becoming a RSS reader with ...

YouTube Gets Interactive With Omnisio

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YouTube is looking to get more interactive with the newly announced ...

Kickfire Raises $20 Million

Kickfire’s kicked up a cool $20 million to expand its MySQL appliance ...

Former Microsoft Exec Joins Online Identity Startup

A former Microsoft executive has joined Identity.net, a new startup aimed at ...

YouTube Being Used To Catch Police Pranksters

We’ve heard of police using the Internet to try to catch robbers and ...

29Jul

Lifecast brings simple, geolocated blogging to the iPhone

iPhone application Lifecast brings simple, geolocation and time tagged ...

StumbleRead brings Stumbleupon style page viewing to FriendFeed

StumbleRead is a new FriendFeed service that brings StumbleUpon style page ...

Life after Techmeme

Today marks exactly one month since I’ve managed to have a post ...

TV content consumption online hits 20%

A new report from Integrated Media Measurement has found that 20% of all ...

Scrabulous highlights the failure of American Copyright Law

Facebook game Scrabulous is no longer available to users in North America as ...

IAC Now Alpha Testing How-To-Style Site

InterActiveCorp’s as-of-yet unannounced new project is now online and ...

Perspctv Tries To Level The Election Playing Field

A new Web startup is attempting to offer a balanced approach to ...

HP, Intel, and Yahoo Get Into Cloud Computing

The cat’s out of the bag: HP, Intel, and Yahoo are teaming up to ...

28Jul

Blog Council releases disclosure toolkit

The Blog Council, an organization of corporations formed to promote best ...

What was hot on QBase Last Week

Collaborative open company databases continue to thrive, and as always ...

Google Knol starting to smell spammy

Google launched its Wikipedia competitor Google Knol last week, but one week ...

Australian Government considering iPod searches

The Australian Government is considering searching iPods at airports for ...

Independent Internet Stations Sign On For Massive New Radio Network

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A group of independent Internet radio stations has signed on for ...

Your Public Photos Could Become My Disguise

Your online photo collection could soon be used to disguise strangers. ...

Mogulus Gets Millions From Gannett

Video streaming company Mogulus has secured around $10 million from Gannett, ...

27Jul

Housekeeping: We love our advertisers, help us by checking them out

We don’t do this often, but a big shout out to our advertisers for ...

Cuil: Interesting, but not so cool for research

Cuil, a new search engine started by some ex-Googlers and $33million in ...

The Blogging Dream

Blogging has changed the world. Information is no longer controlled by a ...

NFL live online, the tip of the death of broadcast television

The National Football League (NFL) has announced that it will start ...

The Changing Blogosphere and Blogging 2.0

Is blogging today fundamentally different to blogging five years ago? ...

26Jul

Yokway: sort of FriendFeed meets De.licio.us

Yokway is a service that bills itself as a place to “share and discuss ...

Userplane Partners with Community Platform Providers for Service Integration

Social software provider for online communities Userplane has inked ...

Were You There?

Hull Media Inc. wants you to remember, share, and preserve stories that ...

Google Knew The Web Was Big

In 1998 Google had 26 million indexed pages. It went further north to one ...

25Jul

Zimbra Desktop: A Closer Look at Yahoo’s New E-mail Offering

Following our release day editorial on Yahoo’s Zimbra Desktop, we ...

Estimate Your Level of Internet Fame

Think you’re on the verge of becoming a full-fledged web celeb? A new ...

TrueAnthem Tunes In $2 Million

Internet-based music label TrueAnthem has raised $2 million in new funding. ...

Randy Pausch: 1960–2008

Randy Pausch, renowned computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon ...

Napster Offers ABBA in MP3

Remember ABBA? I do. Napster just announced the debut of the complete ...

AOL to close services, Weblogs Inc blogs affected

AOL will close Bluestring, Xdrive, MyMobile and AOL Pictures as part of a ...

24Jul

Things You Can’t Say on the Internet Episode 4: All Things Fail

Another week, and another episode of Things You Can’t Say About The ...

Microsoft Announces Facebook Search/Advertising Deal

Microsoft has now officially announced a new search and advertising deal ...

Yahoo Tries to Outdo Outlook with Zimbra

Yahoo has a new plan to seemingly lure AOL and Gmail users into its service. ...

Bloggers’ Protection Being Put to the Test

A new legal proceeding could lay the groundwork for bloggers’ rights ...

23Jul

Laconi.ca list of installs plus desktop developer challenge

Indenti.ca continues to grow from strength to strength, as we’ve ...

What About Superstition? Lindsay’s a Waitress on Ugly Betty

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I adore Ugly Betty, but having Lindsay Lohan thrown into the mix ...

Google Suffers Knol Geofriendly Verification Fail

Google launched its long hyped Wikipedia competitor Knol earlier today, but ...

Call for interest: blog advertising group

Aaron Brazell has a great video up today on Technosailor, building on an ...

Study: Blogspot, Naked Female Celebs Pose Worst Malware Risks

Blogspot.com is the worst when it comes to malicious content, according to a ...

Goowy Gets New Push From AOL

A small startup acquired by AOL earlier this year is now being incorporated ...

IAC Takes $170 Million Hit

InterActiveCorp — owner of Ask.com and other big league web services ...

22Jul

FriendFeed adds support for Plurk and Identi.ca

FriendFeed has added native support for microblogging platforms Plurk and ...

Four ways Google could destroy Digg

With news that Google is alleged once again to be close to acquiring Digg, ...

The new Propeller, what were they thinking?

A new version of Propeller went live earlier today, complete with radical ...