By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

I think it is still too early in the rise of Facebook for it have a rival or great competitor that comes from nothing.

Social networking startup would have a very hard time duplicating Facebook’s rapid success and string of…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Storytlr began its life online like many startups – some folks got together and created a lifestreaming solution for their own needs and then they worked to turn it into a business.

And like many startups before them, Read the full story »

Tags: api , data normalization , lifestreaming SaaS , lifestreaming services , lifestreaming software , storytlr

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I signed up for Tumblr yesterday. The appeal was obvious. It was easier to post pictures and add text to, compared to my experience with other blogging sites.

As it turns out, Tumblr has been undergoing some changes recently.…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

For the last five years I have developed web services on top API’s. For the most part I find it really enjoyable as a chance to tinker with data that I wouldn’t otherwise have access to.…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

This weekend I took this on as a perspective question – what if books looked like the web? The next question was – why don’t they look like the web? I should have been thinking about turkey.

It is a simple…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

Twitter founder Biz Stone has indicated that the company would likely make some acquisitions…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Linking words together online is an hobby. Creating context from those words is an art. Making them work in harmony is a gift. The team at Thomson Reuters have done this for some time with their Calais project…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Clear you schedules for tomorrow November 19, 2009 at 1 p.m. EST or 10 a.m. PST if you’re on the West coast to learn how to make Facebook Apps with Jesse Stay. O’Reilly is offering up the…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
You may one day find yourself without an idea for a technology product or service but you’ve got development skills and a urge to build something.

If you’re looking for inspiration, try this:

1. Find an online

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By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

While I’m riding this photo wave I thought I would throw out a post for the coders in the house. I am an unabashed supporter two things – RSS and Flickr. When they are both put together…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Can’t make it to SoHo anytime soon or in this lifetime? Then you should head over to StyleCaster to get a sense of what ambitious, smart fashion is walking the streets of NYC Read the full story »

Tags: api , Big Apple apparel , Facebook Connect , iPhone , mobile fashion , New York , New York Fashion , SoHo , SoHo Fashion , StyleCaster

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

I’ve had quite a learning focus today, eh? Well, it’s gonna roll on as I write about the Radio Lingua Network.

As the name implies, it’s audio based and something to do with a network of tongues. The Radio…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

The semantic web is well on its way and one of the startups that has taken an early lead is Zemanta. They have taken a unique approach to linked data and the science that powers their ability to create…

By Senior Staff Writer – Steve Saylor

You ever go into Best Buy and buy a computer or a Flat Panel TV, thinking that you have everything you need to do what you want to do. But that never really happens does it? You are always missing that…

By Senior Staff Writer – Steve Saylor

One of the coolest things to come out of Best Buy recently is it’s Best Buy Remix where the Remix team developed an API to interact with Best Buy’s catalog. Similar to Amazon, but this way you can interact on a local…