Announcements Box.Net Launches $2M Innovation Fund Cloud storage provider Box.net is moving to expand its reach beyond simple file sharing with a series of investments, partnerships and software extensions called the Box Innovation Network. They plan on investing two million dollars over the next two years to encourage a variety of add-on development around their core technology, as well as… David Strom View comments
News @BreakingNews Goes International BreakingNews, the team of curators behind the @BreakingNews Twitter account and Breaking News Facebook page, has announced today that it's going international. The U.K. MSN homepage now features a BreakingNews widget, and the new London-based arm of the team has launched a @BreakingNewsUK Twitter account. The BreakingNews team manages a… Jon Mitchell View comments
Analysis What We've Got Here is a Failure to Communicate Fans of Paul Newman will recognize his character's famous line in Cool Hand Luke. Never in the history of electronic communications do we have so many choices and yet experience so many communication failures. This was made clear to me recently when I tried to get in touch with a "friend" of mine. I put the word in quotes because I mean it in… Enterprise David Strom View comments
Data Services What a Tweet Can Tell You Imagine a tiny little sun, just bursting with heat and light, but trapped inside a hard metal cover with a few holes to let beams of energy stream out from inside. Now imagine there were millions of those little suns, maybe the size of basketballs or tennis balls, all rolling down an assembly line one after another, each with a unique pattern of… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Facebook Browser Vulnerabilty Caused Facebook Spam Attack Yesterday Facebook acknowledged that the latest spam attack, which sent pornographic content, violence and animal abuse imagery on users' walls, was the result of a browser bug, not the hacker group Anonymous. Creepy images appeared on users' Facebook walls, including Justin Bieber photoshopped into a compromising sexual situation, an abused dog… Social Alicia Eler View comments