Marshall breaks it down well here. Making this simple and usable is a huge problem and may prevent adoption. -- KM *** Portland, Oregon's JanRain, leaders in the OpenID movement, put on a PR push this week to promote what they say is the imminent approval of OpenID 2.0's final draft....

With all the talk about Amazon’s Kindle, there’sa bigger revolution taking place and those who studied classic literature will be horrified. In Japan, half of the top ten selling works of fiction in the first six months of 2007 were ... Go to Full Article

Acording to a recent report by iRearch, an internet marketing research company in China, the number of online shoppers is predicted to reach 100 million in 2010. The popularity of C2C sites like www.taobao.com and ebay.com.cn has given ... Go to Full Article

I've been hatin' on Facebook for some time now, because in reality it's such a con. Umair summarizes the lameness of Facebook quite well here. Check out the comment from Charlie in the post as well. Now that we all know that Facebook is supremely lame, I'll be featuring fewer Facebook stories. --...

If you are tired of receiving junk mail, spam and annoying telemarketing phone calls, then this list is for you. If you desire to take steps to stop the snooping from the government, hackers and marketing agencies, then this list will show you the way to privacy freedom. Go to Full Article

This is very real, people. VeriChip profits when people get microchipped, and they are promoting this agenda as much as they can. Once you get chipped, you can essentially be tracked and controlled. That power should only be in the hands of people you trust. The RFID industry needs to be watched...

These terms we're using -- social graph, graph, semantic web -- they're awful. AWFUL! We need simpler words, as well as some cute, intuitive pictures to help convey the idea. Where's Kathy Sierra when you need her? Anyway, one commenter in the article below said it's all about structured...

A commenter (named Charles) in this article on TechCrunch had this to say: Use Firefox and download the “Block Site” add on Enter this url into the Block Site add on: facebook.com/beacon/* with the customary http section first This will permanently block the beacon from every...

LOL. I get a lot of spam in my gmail account. More importantly, the best spam is indistinguishable from regular content (which raises the philosophical question of what exactly spam is). -- KM *** Brad Taylor, Google's chief spam "watchdog," suspects that spammers may actually be...

It looks like Facebook has listened to the outcry from users and privacy groups about Beacon. Nick O’Neill has received word from the company that they will be making updates that will make user’s much more aware of information about ... Go to Full Article

The article says we are doomed to be under a single, centralized database. This is true, in the sense that the New World Order wants to create a one world government with everything (including people) being microchipped. The Internet, though, is the salvation. The real potential of the Internet...

Moral of the story: paid link networks have to be a covert thing. -- KM *** It’s been less than two weeks since Google penalized PayPerPost bloggers in the most devastating way possible - by resetting all of their PageRanks to zero and effectively removing them from the Internet....

eStara, a provider of conversion solutions for enhancing online sales and support initiatives, recently commissioned a study, conducted by Forrester Consulting, to evaluate Click to Call’s full impact on sales and internal resources for ... Go to Full Article

Nice and clear explanation about why Facebook's advertising program is seriously not cool from a privacy perspective. If you're still confused about Beacon, check this out. -- KM *** According to Businessweek, Facebook may soon be changing its new Beacon feature, which shares...

I think this is worth a shot for Google. If they are going to be build a community, doing it straight from the SERPs is, in my opinion, the best route -- it's the stickiest thing Google has and it is the thing Google customers are most passionate about. If it works, this could be a big blow to...