We have not spend any time thinking about Technorati but over at Work From Home Business Blog. Peter is holding a favorites exchange. This is where we get together to link through Technorati.
You can favorite us here at Add to Technorati Favorites. Please leave a Fav linkback in the comments and we will Fav [...]

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Marnia Orlova, Intellectual and all round hottie runs one of the hottest channels on Youtube. HotforWords has been around for two years but rivals even Michael Jackson and Showtime in the number of hits.

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This weeks embrulio about the change in terms of service for the Facebook terms of service has unlined an immutable truth about social networking. Facebook has done an about face on the terms but this has not stopped speculation that Facebook is doing an end run around it’s users.
However of more concern is the longer [...]

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One of the beneficiaries of the recession are the word oriented social sites like Linkedin and to a lesser extend Facebook (read what I think about Facebook). According to news.com this weeked, the traffic for Linkedin has grown 22% over December, including a whopping 65% increase in recommendations. Anecdotally this is what I have been [...]

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After the Microsoft purging in early January no one department was left untouched including the team working on the Zune player. All of Microsoft’s divisions are losing money except Windows, Office, Tools and Business CRM
Although they deny it, it is related to the precipitous drop in revenue in the last quarter (down 54%) Microsoft recently [...]

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Unlike Linkedin which has been able to successfully charge for a premium service, Facebook does not realize any revenue beyond advertising on their various pages. This means that they are entirely beholden to the fate of the online advertising industry and it’s fate is not that rosy at the moment. I had always been suspicious [...]

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It is enormous fun to watch the machinations of the Twitter team, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, walk a tight balancing act between promise and reality. The promise is that Twitter can evolve from a fun tool to a valuable tool, something that people will be prepared to pay for. The reality is that it [...]

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With release of Google Latitude and the birth of wide spread people tracking technology, we are onto the next stage of improved social tools at the expense of privacy. From the Google Blog:
Latitude is a new feature of Google Maps for mobile, as well as an iGoogle gadget, that allows you to share your location [...]

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In our ongoing series on technology that has gone the way of the dinosaur, this week Polaroid announced the demise of the instant camera with the closure of the manufacturing:
Yesterday, the company behind the iconic instant camera announced it was to stop making the film used by Polaroid enthusiasts, because there is no longer a [...]

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The late 1990s were a boom time and there are constant reminders of the more excesses over that period. Half.com is an example of a successful exit to an unsuccessful business.
But back in 1999, in its Netflix-like heyday, Half.com was hot. And then it did something quite remarkable. As a publicity stunt, it bought a [...]

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