Facebook, Amazon and Zynga bet on social web

" Facebook, Amazon and Zynga will invest in a fund to help entrepreneurs develop applications and services for a new era of the social web. The lion's share of the sFund's $250m (£160m) will come from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Details were...

Death reaches Web 2.0: Social obituary aggregator

"Inmymemo.com is a social obituary aggregator", they say. It looks similar to Digg (it is powered by Pligg), and promotes news about personalities who recently passed away. There is also a category called Citizens where you can send obituaries about unknown people. Death...

Death reaches Web 2.0: Social obituary aggregator

"Inmymemo.com is a social obituary aggregator", they say. It looks similar to Digg (it is powered by Pligg), and promotes news about personalities who recently passed away. There is also a category called Citizens where you can send obituaries about unknown people. Death...

Last.fm should buy Shazam, Musicovery

I've been using Last.fm for yonks, and it's a place I don't frequent as often as I used to. The music discovery process is intuitive, and encourages a love-thy-neighbour kind of attitude, as those with similar tastes are nudged into your profile page. So rather than have...

Internet censorship and Digg democracy

Censorship on the 'Net is a fiery issue currently burning holes through the web in unusual places. It's contentious, debatable and causing some consternation for some. So why is the idea of calling for some silence or some order on the web the cause of so much dismay? And...

'Workstreams' for mobile business?

So Google made good on all their mobile machinations and release a product that knits together GeoRSS and KML and it's called Google MyMaps. Intrigued by the idea of drawing my own maps, I decided to plot out the route I take when I jog. What's immediately obvious is that...