Facebook has now launched the Facebook Platform: developers can now build their own applications on top of Facebook. This is important: Techdirt thinks that it could help Facebook become the platform for the internet (something Google could have done but continues to pass on). With 40 billion page views per month (according to the link [...]

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A nice excerpt from Al Gore’s book The Assault on Reason in Time magazine:
In the world of television, the massive flows of information are largely in only one direction, which makes it virtually impossible for individuals to take part in what passes for a national conversation. Individuals receive, but they cannot send. They hear, [...]

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I recently joined Amie Street, which is a new music service with very interesting business model: upload your music and people can download it for free, and as it becomes more popular the price starts to go up to a maximum of $0.98 per song. That way, there’s an incentive to seek out relatively unheard-of [...]

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What a herd of angry diggers looks like

Diggers are going crazy over the leaked HD-DVD key. Here are some interesting looking screenshots (the first is from the top of the page, the second from the bottom).

Only two of 14 stories have nothing to do with the key. This after Digg has removed a number of prior stories posted to their homepage about [...]

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