Today's Blog Buzz

If you didn’t attend Web 2.0, you can watch my ten-minute keynote about “What Google Knows About Spam” (and several other keynotes) on blip.tv. I’ll embed the keynote below as well. The only thing I don’t like about conference speaking is pr… [continue reading]

The missing six million viewers who were watching prime television last May and have disappeared this year are still watching, but on their own terms. [continue reading]

Facebook CTO Adam D'Angelo will leave the company. BoomTown called Facebook PR last week about the rumor of D'Angelo's departure, but did not get a response. The company confirmed the departure by D'Angelo (pictured here) tonight. The 23-… [continue reading]

I’m going to assume that the fact that some Yahoo search results that point to Google with a malware warning are a sign that their new partnership with McAfee just needs a little tuning. The alternatives are either (1) Google is serving Malwa… [continue reading]

Today marks another milestone for San Francisco based contextual search engine Powerset. They’ve launched a showcase for their user search experience - effectively the search engine minus the web crawl. For now, Powerset queries only Wikiped… [continue reading]

I love Friendfeed. However, I am far more enthusiastic about the platform's robust RSS and search capabilities than its current value proposition as a universal social aggregator. I find it generates too much noise at times, but when you tap... [continue reading]

In the face of the expansion of the classified ads Web site Craigslist, its founder, Craig Newmark, is capitalizing on his success to promote causes he holds dear. [continue reading]

The Search Engine Roundtable reports that it seems to be no longer possible to sign up for the Ambassador Program. Although there is no specific confirmation from Yahoo on the Ambassador program page, when one tries to sign up via an affilia… [continue reading]

I was beginning to think Twitter - the micro-blogging service that's all the rage amongst the technorati - was just another fad for people who want to share too much of their rather dull lives. Until this morning. When I... [continue reading]

Most of my time these days is spent crossing the blood-brain barrier between Twitter and the rest of the cloud. Twitter stands on one side, a coursing stream of social data emanating from an ad-hoc framework of asynchronous follows and vanity… [continue reading]