NYT Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month [Update] Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January, we're hearing from sources close to the project. MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites. MyBlogLog was a… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
NYT Experts Predict 2010 the Year for Social Media ROI Aptly-named consumer trend blog TrendsSpotting just released its poll from more than 30 social media influencers. The market research presentation Dana Oshiro View comments
Microsoft Will the Word-Blocking Patent Extend Beyond Microsoft? As of today a federal appeals court is upholding the judgement to bar Microsoft from selling current versions of Word and Office. The question is, what does the patent actually entail? The original patent can be summarized as covering a "method and system for manipulating the architecture and the content of a document separately from each other… Dana Oshiro View comments
Startups Stalqer: Aggregated, (Almost) Live Location Data on the iPhone With the rapid growth of services like Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite, location-based mobile social networks seem to be a dime a dozen these days, but they're only fun and useful if your friends are using it, too. Each time that I've tried one of these services, I find myself trying to convince my friends to use it so that I can have… Chris Cameron View comments
News Taptu Adds Real-Time Search to Its Mobile Apps Taptu, a mobile search engine that specializes in indexing mobile-friendly websites, just launched a new version of its iPhone app. The new app now includes real-time search results, which are powered by OneRiot. In addition to including these real-time search results, Taptu also worked hard on improving the speed of the app and on providing more… Frederic Lardinois View comments