Explaining social media to small businesses is a huge problem. Seriously holding back the web, and is, in my opinion, one of the leading examples of the problem of digital divide 2.0 (the social media vs those who don't use social media). *************** Sometimes at speaking...

Free, on-demand streaming music comes to the Internet. ************* Back in September last year Michael suggested everyone check out BlogMusik quickly before it was shut down. BlogMusik is a service born in France that lets you search for mp3 files on the web and listen to them in...

Very nice. This will cause a lot of the ad networks piggybacking on YouTube to go out of business (especially when YouTube starts sharing ad revenue, and says you can't use other ad networks built on top of YouTube). ********************* http://www.techmeme.com/070821/i127.jpgYouTube...

Great quote from the article: "Carefully designed social interactions have the potential to create the next generation of online relationships" **************** conduit.png Conduit Labs is a secretive new company, not launched yet, but which says it wants to build a new social network:...

I feel social networks are the ticket to disrupting search, and thus am skeptical of other approaches at search being able to beat Google. ***************** Tafiti is a new experimental search site from Microsoft. It has rich visualizations and aims to meet the needs of people doing...

Looks impressive, in my opinion. Will other ad networks successfully monetize YouTube videos before YouTube does? Of course, it will be tougher for them to have ad relevance on YouTube videos -- and they may end up annoying users (especially when YouTube starts inserting ads themselves, thus...

Nice insight from Don Dodge in this post. *************** I was meeting with a very successful VC firm in Boston today reviewing new companies and ideas. One of the partners asked me to characterize Web 2.0 startups. I quipped, "Web 2.0 means a web app, 2 founders and zero revenue. ... ...

The privacy game leads to the niche game, which leads to the personalization game. ************** Millions of people signing up to Facebook, MySpace and other sites could be open to online crime, IT security experts warn Read Full Article

BubbleGeneration says most ads suck. The solution, I think, might be in the ad network that is creative-controlled. ************** Oh, the lulz. "...NBC Universal is expanding its battle against YouTube and other viral video sites, using the weight of its top-rated USA cable network to...

The American intelligence community is preparing to launch 'A-Space', an internal communications tool modelled on the popular social networking sites, Facebook and MySpace Read Full Article

Crowded as the DIY social networks market may be, I view it as one of the best markets in web services to be in. **************** SelectMinds, a New York company that provides companies with their own social networks, has raised a $5.5 million round of financing from Bessemer Venture...

History Channel Hit Piece: Dirty Tricks, Malicious Lies & Journalistic Fraud The real story behind Brad Davis, NBC, Popular Mechanics and the History Channel - View Full Article

Remember the ecommerce commercial that showed a small group hovering around a computer as they launched their new website? They cheered when the first order notification came through, and again with the second… and then freaked out as ... View Full Article

"Unlike Twitter, Kyte is not aiming to be a destination." Makes all the difference in the world (although to be fair I would imagine that Twitter will probably go distributed at some point as well). ******************* When Kyte launched in April, I called it "Twitter that moves" --...

Outstanding write up from Jason here. Everyone really should know this stuff. ********************** The Federal Reserve is one of those things that I grew up hearing about every once in a while on the noon business hour on the local news station here in Chicago, and I knew they had...