Lijit is a company behind a clever little search widget with a great idea behind it: you put it on your blog, and instead of letting your users search only for your blog posts, it enables them to search your social networks, bookmarks, and all other kinds of interesting data you’ve created. To...

"Morgenwelt", so heißt ein populärer Science-Fiction-Roman des britischen Autors John Brunner, in dem er eigentlich ein düsteres gesellschaftliches Globalisierungs-Szenario malt. Er bietet in dem 1968 veröffentlichten Buch ein unübersichtliches Sammelsurium von Informationsschnipseln,...

It wasn't too long ago when web commentators were criticizing the BBC iPlayer, which uses the same distribution engine as Open Media Network, developed by former Kontiki chairman Mike Homer and recently gifted to U.S. public broadcasting.  Now it seems that iPlayer is so successful that it's ca...

It took me 5 seconds into a call with a Yahoo Rep who told me something to the effect of "yeah, I would avoid the Content Network for now, because were having reporting problems with it and don't expect to see it fixed anytime soon. After I heard that, I said "Good thing your CPCs are much lower tha...

As always, that’s a difficult discussion. First of all it’s important to remember that “Versioning” the web is initially a marketing trick, albeit a powerful and a valid one. It does make sense to try to assess the pace and scope of change in and through the Digital Revolutio...