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Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is my favorite social bookmarking system. It’s simple and unassuming. It’s also one of the first web apps that used tags for organizing content. But there are recent speculations that Delicious is being shutdown by its owner, Yahoo!The service started small, and sta Read More

The idea behind PageRank is that if a page is important, other web pages will link to it. The more important the linking page is itself, the more weight (“link juice”) that link would have. This system works amazingly well, instantly bringing up relevant pages for almost any search, without giving Read More

Threadsy gets $2.9M for one-stop social networking: The San Francisco-based startup has raised a second round of funding to help users manage all emails and social network updates in a single place, according to an SEC filing. Threadsy, which works in a web browser, gave users the option to “dislik Read More

In my last post, I discussed the origins of social networking online, beginning with CompuServe, Prodigy, the Well, then the rise of AOL, Geocities and Yahoo Groups. Next began the era of “spam-based” networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Co-founded by Sean Parker (yes, the same Read More

The concept behind splatforms.com is pretty simple, really: you fill out a simple form, either manually or with the help of some kind of automated assistance, and then we take that form data do all kinds of “stuff” with it. That “stuff” that is done using that data gets done Read More

On Tuesday, Facebook (News - Alert) co-founder Chris Hughes launched the beta version of Jumo, an innovative social networking site that connects donors with charities. The good news for the non-profit company is that the website garnered an unbelievable amount of initial consumer interest. The bad Read More

According to Wikipedia, captcha is … a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. The process usually involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. B Read More

Social media from Twitter to Facebook, LinkedIn to YouTube creates opportunities for building relationships, cultivating customers and promoting business, but the sea of updates and input awash with data both important and consequential can drown all but the most dogged of users. Fortunately, app d Read More

Social bookmarking sites are tools that online users can use to store online content. Think of a social bookmarking site as an online file cabinet which you can access or anyone can access (if you choose to). Sites like this deliver two benefits. First: Links to your websites from these sites get y Read More

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the world wide web (www), has warned that popular online businesses, services and social networks are fracturing the values of Net neutrality and potentially threatening the Web’s future development.Voicing his concerns via an essay in Scientific American, the techno Read More