Andrew Warner is an Internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mixergy. He interviews successful people to learn how they did it. I asked Paul Buchheit for advice on launching startups because he fathered two of this decade’s most successful online products: Gmail and FriendFeed. As part of his ...

We’ve all pretty much become accustomed to the notion that Google is this invincible internet giant which will always be there for us, but it’s not always true. A good example was this weekend’s fiasco, when (due to human error) Google’s search engine reported all web sites o...

Jennifer Van Grove is a Social Media Strategist. She authors a blog about San Diego, technology, startups and social media at JenniferVanGrove.com. Circle of Moms is a social network publicly debuting today for online moms looking to connect with other moms. With an already active community of 850,0...

Sometimes (very often, in my case) you’d like a web site or service to cut through the crap and just keep it simple, right? Well, every now and then a service that’s really easy to use ends up in our mailbox, and it’s a shame not to share it. These sites have no extra annoyances th...

Remember Lycos? It was once an unavoidable name on par with the Facebooks and the Twitters of the current world, but things change fast on the Internet. Its European arm, Lycos Europe, is shutting down after being unable to return to the path of profitability and/or find a buyer. The company, consis...

Google was once invincible and unable to make a mistake. Well, although its share price is not what it used to be, one can argue they’re still invincible in most areas they’ve dabbled in, but the mistakes and flops are now piling up. Google Lively, a virtual world in which users can crea...

Zenbe, an email aggregator that dips its toes in social networking, adding a hefty number of features to your regular webmail experience to make it worthwhile, is now out of beta and available to everyone. The question is: is it enough to switch from Gmail or whichever webmail you’re using? Th...

Custom fabrication can be fun. Especially when it gets three-dimensional. Enter, Shapeways, a new startup molded by Philips Incubator Project and currently tagged as a private beta service. (We have lots of invites to share. Click the link at the bottom.) For inspired originalists, there’s really ...

Blogging for all intents and purposes has been around for about the ten year mark. During that time it has gone through many changes as more platforms and tools became available that made it easier and easier for just about anyone to become a blogger. Styles of blogs have grown as well with everythi...

I’ve spent the past five days testing the iPhone 3G and many of the wonderful applications that have been made available at the App store. Much of this time I focused on the “Social Networking” apps, or the ones that had social networking features. However, I came across a huge pro...