News Yahoo! Opens Buzz Submissions to All - But is It Democratic? Yahoo! Buzz, the social news service that launched in February and delivered giant piles of traffic to the lucky few websites that were indexed by the site, is tonight opening up to submissions from any site across the web. We warned that Buzz could eat Digg's lunch and that's never felt as true as it does tonight. The roll out of new open… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features RIAA Takes Down Muxtape, Will Future Solutions Please Hurry Up & Arrive? Popular playlist sharing site Muxtape is down and says that it's because of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It might have been inevitable but the news will run chills down the spines of countless music sharers. It's a tragedy, really, and one we hope to see reversed quickly. Cynics will say they got what they deserved… Play Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews Create a Tour of Web Pages with Agglom Sharing web pages in a conversation shouldn't be as tricky as it is. Sometimes you're on the phone, or speaking to a group of people and there isn't a handy way to bring people along with you from page to page and then let them have easy access to those pages after the conversation is through. Enter Agglom, a simple little service built by… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Analysis The Future of the Desktop Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones that run in browsers. For example, a range of products such as Microsoft Office Live, Google Docs, Zoho, ThinkFree, DabbleDB, Basecamp, and many others now provide Web-based… Guest Author View comments
Analysis What Would the Perfect Streaming Music Service Look Like? Pandora's on the ropes, Imeem is taking off, Grooveshark relaunched today with recommendations and a long list of cool features, Blip.fm threatens to make Muxtape look like old news - the streaming music market online is expanding and contracting faster than a stadium rocker's pupils. What if the perfect service rose from the noise and gave you… Play Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments