NY Times: MySpace Joins Google Alliance to Counter Facebook. MySpace and Bebo, two of the world’s largest social networking sites, on Thursday joined a Google-led alliance that is promoting a common set of standards for software ... Go to Full Article

Is anyone else tired of the email carpet bombing from Plaxo? The latest rage is Pulse, a new social network service. My email inbox started getting bombed with invitations last night. Here is how Plaxo describes it... What's pulse? ... Go to Full Article

Good points raised by Andy Beal here regarding the proposed "do not track" list. -- KM *** Reuters reports that a group of privacy and consumer organizations have asked the FTC to create a "do not track" list for internet users who want to opt-out of any ad-behavior tracking. Such a...

I don't think this is cool, although its cleverness is worth learning from. -- KM *** A virtual stripper named "Melissa" that promises to progressively remove items of clothing for viewers who solve online CAPTCHAs is actually part of a scheme by spammers to crack web site...

I'm a fan of Virb as well. The interface is killer, and that's half the battle. -- KM *** Just a quick note that Virb, a new social network that’s got me excited, has launched today. I was accepted into the private beta a couple months ago and its really come a long way. It’s...

Some more useful insight from Marc Andreessen into OpenSocial, which I think looks great and has the perfect strategy (I agree with Dave Winer's point on OpenSocial, although I am content with this as a step in that direction). After reading the post below, I think OpenSocial will move us to a...

As the web is fundamentally a communications device, I think everything will end up being a social network, or some type of online community. -- KM *** Semantic search engine Hakia has just released a new social networking feature to their search engine, called Meet Others (MO). The...

And predictably, the US dollar fell on the announcement, with the EURUSD exchange rate reaching a new all time high. Stagflation -- the coupling of a stagnant economy with inflation -- is under way, and will continue. -- KM *** The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter point...

Another great opportunity: domainers leveraging social networks and RSS to increase the worth of their Internet real estate. -- KM *** The consumer product review site SharedReviews.com will announce tomorrow that it has taken an undisclosed sum of investment from parties in the...

Social news website Digg.com is considering opening itself up further to allow other websites to copy its model, its co-founder has said. In an interview with the Guardian, Digg chief executive Jay Adelson said the company was not looking to expand into more niche markets, but would prefer to...

One of the biggest things that no one talks about is the kind of technology the military has. Did you know they have weather controlling technology? Of course the people who want you to sacrifice everything for global warming conveniently fail to mention that. -- KM *** ...

Techcrunch has sniffed out details on Google's new social network, named OpenSocial (set to go live Thur US). According to Techcrunch, OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs that allow developers to access the following core functions ... Go to Full Article

A great victory for capitalism. -- KM *** The internet tax freedom act has been extended another 7 years. It was down to the wire, but the vote was unanimous. The House passed the bill that the Senate passed last week. It passed 402-0. The current law was going to expire in two ... ...

Some interesting stats presented here. I think it is clear that there is going to be a LOT of money spent on advertising on social networks. In my opinion, though, we're not going to see those ads come in the form of CPM/CPC priced text blocks or banners -- something else, something that makes...

This is an example of a management innovation -- the kind that can lead to huge economic returns. -- KM *** Recently launched Cofundos.org, from the Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Research Group at the University of Leipzig in Germany, is a community funding site for...