Google introduced Sidewiki a short time ago as a tool for anyone to leave useful information about a website for others to stumble upon later. It’s an incredibly democratizing system because anyone can use it to post virtually anything on any site. That capability alone makes Sidewiki an irreplaceably valuable tool; however that’s [...]

Ask somebody a question about anything. That’s the logic behind the new internet social site, Formspring. Messages are in short form, just like Twitter, but instead of making statements and status updates, users ask questions of one another.
The buzz on this site is a bit quiet right now, but the same could have [...]

MySpace recently released some APIs that will stream status updates and the like to other formats like Google’s search engine. This means that Google’s search function could potentially include up-to-the-second MySpace information as part of a search. MySpace could be considered a goldmine of information that has not been properly tapped as of [...]

Twitter is great. You can keep in touch with friends, keep abreast of the latest breaking news, and much more. Sometimes you want to share a url with your followers as part of a tweet, but the limitation of 140 characters can put an end to that quickly.  Don’t worry though, there are [...]

According to the EtherPad Blog, AppJet–the program’s creators–have recently been acquired by Google. Etherpad is a program created to allow users to invite others to collaborate on a document.
So why would Google be interested in acquiring Appjet when they already have Google Docs? For one, AppJet’s EtherPad allows users to make changes to [...]