web Intense Debate: A Very Sweet Comment Management Plug-in Colorado based Intense Debate, the sophisticated blog comment system with the silly name, launched its public beta this morning. There are some definite kinks in the service still, but there's also quite a lot to take note of. The service offers a powerful combination of ease of use and feature richness; I'm impressed. Intense Debate lets… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
web Cofundos.org Crowdsources Open Source Software Funding Recently launched Cofundos.org, from the Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Research Group at the University of Leipzig in Germany, is a community funding site for open source software. The site allows non-coders to join forces to fund open source programming projects that might otherwise not get made. Software made as a result of these… Josh Catone View comments
web DocStoc Takes Its Long Shot Vision to the Public Document sharing site DocStoc opened to the public today after months of a high-profile private beta. Similar to the already launched and funded Scribd, DocStoc aims to provide a place for you to post and discover professional documents on a wide variety of topics. Think sample contracts, sample press releases, proposals, etc. If DocStoc can keep… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
web Facebook: Have Data, Will Travel? Rumored Ad Product for Third-Party Sites According to Lee Lorenzen, of Altura Ventures, and AllFacebook, the "Social Ads" advertising service Facebook is supposedly set to launch next week will take Facebook ads outside the social network. The rumored technology would work like this: Facebook would place a cookie on your computer (the site already requires users to have cookies enabled… Josh Catone View comments
News Whois May Be Retired, Says ICANN The Associated Press is reporting that ICANN may consider shutting down the Whois system, which lets Internet users search for domain name registration information, because of disagreements over how it works. Privacy advocates in favor of shutting down the database feel that individuals should not be forced to give out private information -- which… Josh Catone View comments