Analysis Survey: Most Workplace Internet Use Remains Rudimentary The Pew Internet and American Life Project, always a source of fascinating survey results, has come out with a new one about technology and work. The latest is titled "Networked Workers: Most workers use the internet or email at their jobs, but they say these technologies are a mixed blessing for them." The gist of the analysis is that people who… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Music MySpace Music Launches Tonight and It Looks Very Cool The long awaited MySpace Music service is launching tonight around 9pm PST. (It's the old site at that link right now.) We just got off the phone with the company for a briefing and we liked what we saw. It's going to be a very big deal. Users will be able to assemble playlists from a huge catalog of songs from all four major labels and from… Play Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Analysis State of the Mobile Web: Long Tail Sites Increase Their Presence Browser vendor Opera, which is a stronger player in the mobile browser market than it is on the desktop, has just released more data on of the state of the Mobile Web. The latest report tells us that usage of the mobile Web continues to grow in terms of unique users and page views. What's more, 'long tail' sites are showing up well in the data too… Richard MacManus View comments
News reCaptcha: Stopping Spam While Transcribing Books CAPTCHAs, those pesky challenge-response tests that many web sites use to determine whether you are human or a spambot, are an annoyance to many users. According to a report in Science (subscription required), users now solve about 100 million CAPTCHAs a day. ReCAPTCHA, a project based at Carnegie Mellon University, has found an ingenious way to… Frederic Lardinois View comments
News Digg Doubles Its War Chest to Challenge Yahoo Buzz Internationally Social news site Digg is announcing today that it has raised another $28 million from existing investors, bringing its sum total raised to more than $40 million. Remember when people used to tell stories about Digg rejecting VC money as too much in its early days? Those times are long gone. The paradigm that Digg has popularized, letting users… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments