Image via CrunchBase I don’t ever like to see anyone fail, but I suppose success in the Digital Age has created a new set of Rules ! I have found to date a few solid efforts in the application category which I use !  Zemanta Twitter Adaptive Blue Glue Mac Journal and Evernote ! Louis Gray as ...

Typepad is a paid, hosted platform and is one of the most popular options in the blogosphere right now. One of the questions I am asked most often is whether Typepad is worth paying for. Even though the service is reasonably priced, many bloggers aren’t sure they want to pay for their hobby, b...

The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees — and offered them no severance, we're told. The quirky site, part blog and part social network, is best known for its users' weir...

It’s that time: predictions for the year ahead and a look back at how we did in the year past. Several of last year’s predictions proved highly accurate, as many of the topics we devote attention to – social networking, startups, and increasingly mobile apps – evolved according to plan. Look...

  Social Media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here's the week's social media news, in scan-friendly format.   This Week: Facebook Connect General Launch Digg 'Not for Sale' FileRide: a Social Network for ... Files(?) Six Apart Buys Pownce, Shuts it Down Disastrous Timewaster of the W...

Pownce, the microblogging service often compared to Twitter, has been acquired by Six Apart. According to the company blog, the service will be shutdown on December 15th, while the main Pownce team – Leah Culver and Mike Malone – will join Six Apart. Users will have the option to “import [thei...

Blogging company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging startup Pownce for undisclosed financial terms. It looks like one of those acquisitions where the buyer was more interested in the people than the product — the Pownce service will shut down in two weeks. The San Francisco startup was the ...

This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials. Company Name Kontain (a sister company of Fi). 20-Word Description Kontain is a media blogging experience built for Mom and Dad to contain all o...

The vultures are circling. What was once a small trickle of layoffs at major newspapers has become a waterfall of lost jobs within the media business. One can almost picture the Poynter Institute's widely read journalism industry blog Romenesko sauntering up to Time Inc. and Conde Nast and screaming...

Social Media moves so fast, its hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories, in scan-friendly format. This week: * Yahoo Glue Comes to the US * Using Tarpipe to Unclog the Social Media Pipe * Google's Getting a SearchWiki * Get Yer Free Blog on TypePad...