News Report: Feedburner to Google for $100m Techcrunch is reporting that last week's rumors about Google being close to acquiring RSS feed management and advertising firm Feedburner have been confirmed. The purchase price is in the ball park of the rumored $100 million, in a mostly cash deal that locks the founders in for a couple of years. This is a great deal for both Feedburner and… Josh Catone View comments
News Technorati Relaunches: "Everything" Search Technorati announced a major relaunch this morning, 6-months in the making. The new Technorati has evolved from a blog search to, as the site puts it, an "everythinging in the known universe" search. What that really boils down to is: user generated content. Technorati mainly searches blog posts, photos, and videos, but also music and events… Josh Catone View comments
News Pageflakes Announces 100,000 Pagecasts Personalized start page service Pageflakes today announced that their "Pagecasts" feature, which allows users to share their Pageflakes pages with the public or a specific group of users, has been used to push out 100,000 Pagecasts. They also announced the release of their Pagecasts directory which allows people to more easily find user… Josh Catone View comments
web New Version of BlueOrganizer Launched - Semantic Web In Action? Today AdaptiveBlue released a new version of its BlueOrganizer product, a Firefox extension that aims to provide extra contextual information to you while browsing the Web. Basically after you install BlueOrganizer in your Firefox, it enables you to discover all kinds of relevant content while you're browsing - such as books, music, links… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Facebook Platform: The Road to IPO? This week the Wall Street journal published an excellent piece on the upcoming Facebook Platform, which Josh also covered for Read/WriteWeb. The WSJ article outlined a Facebook platform that will allow companies to offer their products and services to Facebook users, enabling them to tap into Facebook's large network. With widgets (which can… Alex Iskold View comments