Match.com teams up with Facebook

IAC’s dating website Match.com, plans to launch two new features this week that bring greater social networking capabilities to its more than 15 million Match members and to the roughly 58 million active users of Facebook. Match.com will announce Thursday the launch of Little Black Book, a new way to link Facebook users with Match.com [...]

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Amazon SimpleDB released in Limited Beta

Amazon.com has announced the limited beta release of the newest edition to their ever growing family of web services, SimpleDB. SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. With the scale and functionality of a clustered relational database, SimpleDB provides a simple web services interface to create and store [...]

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Google does Wikipedia

Well kinda! The official Google Blog reports a new tool to “encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it.” The tool, Knol, which stands for a unit of knowledge, is still in development and is in the initial phase of testing. Currently, using Knol is by invitation only, but [...]

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Ask.com Allows Users to Erase Search Queries

In a move to become more privacy-friendly, IAC’s Ask.com released its “AskErase” feature. AskErase, when enabled, will completely delete search queries and associated cookie information from Ask.com servers. This includes your IP addresses, user IDs, session IDs and the text of queries made. According to Ask, the deletion in most cases takes place within a [...]

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Movable Type: Open Source…Finally

Six Apart’s blogging platform Movable Type has officially gone open source, now allowing developers to freely modify, customize, and use Movable Type for any purpose they choose. This move, though much anticipated, may come a bit too late. MT’s number one competitor, WordPress, which is the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on [...]

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LinkedIn’s Revamp Includes API

In an effort to further establish itself as a the premiere destination for professional social networking, the good folks at LinkedIn, have launched a beta of its revamped user interface which includes, the release of an API. The LinkedIn API will give developers the ability to integrate LinkedIn networks with other applications and services. Lucian [...]

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Personal Digital Media is the new Black

This past October I attended ConvergeSouth, an annual blogging and tech conference in Greensboro, NC. This year’s conference saw the addition of a film festival capping the 2-day event. I was surprised to recognize Amani Channel, director of the short film Twins. His submission won first place in the non-fiction category. Perhaps [...]

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BlackVoices’ Relaunches

Today AOL relaunched BlackVoices. While the clean look of the site is appeasing the biggest and most notable change is the welcoming community that the site now offers readers. For those of you who are like me and like to comment on articles but not so much in forums you will be happy [...]

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Week-in-Links: Search 2.0

Tezaa A self proclaimed “opinion engine” and an online search community driven by polls. Straight from their About page on how Tezaa can benefit its users: “Tezaa can help you make better choices by knowing what your peers think.” Check it out and judge for yourself. Socialgrapes Can help you search user profiles from most [...]

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