The next update of Twhirl will get support for yet another nanoblogging service, Identi.ca, and on that platform Twhirl will feature a communication method that Twitter...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to save the world. This message will self destruct in 10 seconds... (queue Mission Impossible theme song!) Sometimes you...

An anonymous reader sends word of the CherryPal, a tiny desktop computer that its maker says will consume just 2 watts. It uses a Freescale processor that runs Linux and...

Links I've recently tagged on del.icio.us: openpandora - OpenPandora Download: Nice... a standalone Pandora client! (for windows) I tagged it with: last.fm, music,...

Sigh. About a year and a half ago, I wrote about Picasa Web Albums, discussing their terms of service and explaining why I couldn’t use it. Basically, those terms...

Meebo announced a new product called Meebo Community Instant Messaging designed to integrate open instant messaging into online communities. Beginning with DanceJam,...

Instant messaging service Meebo announced a new product tonight called community Instant Messaging that will effectively provide “instant messaging in a box”...

Anand Rajaraman, co-founder of Lightspeed portfolio company Kosmix, posts about how to stop email overload and break silos using wikis, blogs, and IM. We hit the email...

Nothing is better than little tricks and tools that help you to be more productive. At Codswallop they created an incredible useful list of 131 productivity boosters. For...

These things I believe about software development and user-interface design. 1. Why write code? Software is for humans, not for computers. Software is only as good as the...

The past few weeks, John McCrea, Joseph Smarr, and I have been shooting a 15 minute video podcast called TheSocialWeb.tv. Each week we try to break down what's happened...

Beta-friendly users have been running Skype 3.8 for Windows since April 2. But with the usual beta imperfections now sanded off, this audio-focused iteration of Skype is...

In the July/August 2008 issue of Interactions magazine, I wrote an article on Web-Conscious Content Experiences about how content pages can be better optimized for the...

Hydra IRC, an open source chat client, is quickly gaining a stellar reputation. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) used to be only for the computer literate but Hydra makes it...

Lately I’ve been thinking about the common motivations behind all internet usage. I’m trying to design a taxonomy - the “fundamental forces” if...

Today we’re closing the series about the SUMO survey with a post about the last question of the survey: What resources make or would make the user-to-user support in...

Is Generation Y really The Dumbest Generation? [T]here is no empirical evidence that being immersed in instant messaging, texting, iPods, videogames and all things...

We all know how hard it is to start a new website, when nobody knows who you are. Some are facing this right now and others in the past, when they entered this industry....

For one, they can start a Google Africa Blog (Hat tip: Giulio Quaggiotto). Google announced the release of this blog earlier this month. So far there are stories on an...

OnState announced Mash-Up with Zimbra and Skype - Unified Messaging for Skype Integrates Email, Voicemail, Call Recordings, & Business Chat with Open-Source...