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 ...

Filed under: Cell Phones, Computers, Advice For those who have been bitten by the Twitter bug, one of the hardest things to figure out is how to really bump up that "Followers" number (those folks who read your every update, a.k.a. 'tweet' in Twitter-speak). You eye the likes of Robert Scoble with j...

Having famously "plowed through" San Francisco's eligible bachelorettes, Digg founder Kevin Rose went L.A. for his most recent paramour, Shira Lazar. Who is this Web-video wannabe with links to Dov Charney and Julia Allison? Has a real media job. Lazar has already achieved something beyond the reach...

Wikipedia Ramps Up for Video; expecting a crush of video uploads in the coming years, the sum of all human knowledge boosts its storage to 48 terabytes. (Network World) IPTV to Grow 32 Percent Annually Over the Next Six Years; cable and satellite growth rates will slow as IPTV services forecasted to...

Kevin Rose, the boyish founder of Digg, a testosterone-soaked news-discussion site, has resolved to "date someone seriously" in 2009. Specifically, he plans to woo Marley & Me star Jennifer Aniston. Those romantic dreams make up part of Rose's list of New Year's resolutions. Rose will likely reassur...

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...

I hate that I’m writing this post, but I’ll be damned if this service goes unnoticed by any of the 13 readers of my blog. I’m lying. I actually love that I’m writing this. Passion like this doesn’t come frequently to me, so when it’s here - I’m tapping it. A...

Digg founder Kevin Rose says this is the best time to launch a company, even if the economy is going to hell, venture capital for web startups is drying up, and consumer spending has stalled. "I believe it's going to be a great time to start something new," said Rose, while speaking at the...

Image by kyeung808 via Flickr Tomorrow I am leaving for San Francisco. It is my first visit to the Mecca of web entrepreneurs: Silicon Valley. I am going of course to pitch to investors, to establish distribution deals etc. But I am also going to meet some of the biggest names in the industry. And t...

Filed under: Web services, web 2.0 Digg has legions of followers. They're quite fanatical. The similar service Reddit doesn't have that type of following. But how many of the Digg fantatics know how Digg works anyways? There's some type of "algorithm" that controls what hits the homepage. Kevin Rose...