Sometimes it's just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every...

Crowdsourcing sounds good in theory—pull together a bunch of smart, motivated individuals from across the Web to create a new product or business—but in practice it...

We introduced Spotplex in February 2007 as a potential Digg killer that served up popular stories by monitoring how many people read them. Somewhere along the way, it...

Crowdsourcing sounds good in theory—pull together a bunch of smart, motivated individuals from across the Web to create a new product or business—but in practice it...

I can’t say we didn’t see this coming. Quirky online gift catalog site Red Envelope filed for bankruptcy on April 17, according to an SEC filing. Its assets...

We introduced Spotplex in February 2007 as a potential Digg killer that served up popular stories by monitoring how many people read them. Somewhere along the way, it...

It looks like Rojo entered Michael Arrington's graveyard about a month ago, and nobody even noticed. Why do I think so? Look at this screenshot I took yesterday: ...

Execs leave for Jajah as Jangl skirts the dead pool or while seeking a white knight. Jangl powers messaging, presence, and voice for mobile applications. They've been...

We have recently experienced greatly elevated levels of abuse on Zookoda.com. Zookoda is a fantastic service that provides you with a means to reach out to your blog...

Are you starting your very own web 2.0 website? Has your thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters taken the day off. Are you too drunk to come up with your very own...

EA-Land, the service previously known as The Sims Online will shut August 1, despite a much hyped revamp announced late February. The Sims Online was generally regarded...

Beijing based StumbleUpon like service Quzhai has sent out an email to all its users that the service will be shut down very soon. Quzhai learns users’ interest by...

AllYouCanUpload, CNET’s registration-free image hosting site with few restrictions, has quietly been taken down. The site launched in May 2006 without much...

Paul Berberian is one of the smartest guys I know. He’s best known around town as one of the founders of Raindance Communications. Last year, he started a company...

Sonific, an online music playing servuce similar to Pandora and Seeqpod, is to close May 1 as the company was unable to obtain licensed music rights in a way that made...

Spotplex, a Silicon Valley-based blog analytics service that was founded by Koreans and once touted by Techcrunch as "a better Digg", apparently closed its door: Dear...

Cambrian House, the poster-boys of Crowdsourcing are essentially dead - assets being sold in a garage sale for a fraction of what investors put in. TechCrunch and Mark...

RSS Reader News Alloy is to shut due to a lack of funding. Michael first reviewed the site in January 2006 and it was mentioned again in a round up of RSS Readers later...

The Mobile Web is dead, says entreprenuer Russell Beattie, and it’s time for him to deadpool Mowser. Read the details in Duncan’s post from earlier today. Now...

Omnidrive, the Australia-based online storage solution that we named "tops in its class" last summer and was once called the "clear leader" in the space by TechCrunch,...