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In a world where Google is the most visited website, and “just Google it” is an answer to many questions, are there any up-and-coming search engines with something more to offer than the usual round-up of Google, Bing/Yahoo and Wolfram Alpha?While Google and its specialised search options (like Google ...

When it comes to Silicon Valley start-ups, Dave Sifry has been there, done that, and gotten quite a few T-shirts. He founded Technorati as a little science project in his basement, is the creator of Offbeat Guides, and was the brains behind Linuxcare.A software entrepreneur who has spent over ...

I'm a gadget freak. Need the latest with most buttons. Gotta have Gotta have... you know how it is. It's an expensive little vice I have, so it means I got a great phone in my pocket, but my T-shirt and shoes have holes in them. I was doing a ...

The fundamental art of linking is something online media could learn from the blogosphere....Without linking there wouldn’t be an internet.It’s the web of links that leads a user from website-to-website that essentially creates the thing we know as the world wide web. Many commercial online media publishers hate linking ...

Journalism on the internet is becoming a "conversation" rather than a "sermon". Mainstream media should take note.What’s going on with the internet these days?About five years ago the chaotic internet was a relatively calm and simple place. I'd check my regular news sites, get share updates from financial sites, visit ...

It's no surprise that the blogosphere has grown so big, so quickly. Not only is it easier and cheaper to publish than ever before via blogs, but people have found it a good outlet for their ideas and writings. The key success area of blogs, I would argue, is a link culture and a ...

What is your opinion on the general attitude of the newspaper industry towards the merging of online and print?I think there are sceptics and believers. There will be a measure of merging, but I believe that online and print will also continue to co-exist as distinct products, offering similar or ...

According to Dave Sifry on the Technorati blog (the blog search engine) the blogosphere is literally DOUBLING every 5,5 months. There are about 40,7 million blogs around today, so that means if this formula is to be followed that there will be 80-million blogs by the end of 2006. What's ...

Technorati founder David Sifry appealed to the We Media conference in London at Reuters to put the blogger versus big media issue "to rest". He says we need each other! I agree with him.Bloggers need big media and big media needs bloggers. YES! why is it a case ...