At the New Communications Forum last week, pretty much everybody agreed that blogs were no fad, but wikis evoked a less enthusiastic response.

There’s been a lot of debate about why RSS usage has been slow to take off among mainstream Internet consumers.

The Open AIM software development kit and support website moved into the public view Monday morning, and third-party developers have begun downloading the SDK to give it a try.

Outspoken advocates of a two-tiered Internet will soon share a single corporate structure as AT&T will shell out $67 billion to acquire BellSouth.

Xooglers’ Doug Edwards explains why the famous scrolling display of Google queries, located in the Googleplex lobby, isn’t made available for public use.

The Onion ran one of their faux “man on the street” pieces last Thursday, asking “Google recently suffered a 13% percent drop in stock price, the sharpest drop in the history of the company.

The progressives these days are running around the office shouting unintelligible words (to the old folks) like “blogs” and “wikis.” Attorneys and public relations managers duck and cover when this happens, even if the marketing team is dancing beside their cubicles (blogs and wikis are great, efficient, and economical ways to reach the masses).

The contest to find the best of the extensions and their developers for the Firefox browsers yielded ten winners out of the over 200 submissions received.

Arsenal and England international left back Ashley Cole is displeased in a legal sense over Google’s alternative suggestion in search results for his name.

Business ethics are one of those topics that receives much discussion, but sadly, not always enough action.

This one kind of surprises me. Turns out there’s one glaring omission in Google Desktop: It doesn’t notice when you move a file.

Are you a purist blogger? If you were in Chinese actress Xu Jinghei’s shoes (after you stopped rubbing your giant feet), where your blog went from zero to 11 million visitors in just 5 months, would you have a problem with placing ads alongside your periodic musings? Ms. Xu is unsure, says she’d like to keep her blog a “comparatively quiet place.”

Programming for long hours under deadlines with an entire company’s future sometimes hanging on every line of code leads to the kind of stress that can only be relieved by beating the stuffing out of someone else.

Fox has launched a program that give American Idol fans their own blogs on the Fox site.

Last Friday, I wrote about a different model of customer support.

Perhaps the greatest competency Socialtext has gained over the past three years is fostering adoption of social software.

Rohit Bhargava sees a way for marketers to carefully become part of the Wikipedia community by creating short articles in an effort to facilitate further discussion.

The Enterprise Identity Management project is all about automating business processes and synchronizing identity-related information across the enterprise.

To paraphrase a movie line, “INFINITE COSMIC STORAGE! Itty bitty living space.” This is what the kids at Google see in the future. On Friday, Google sponsored their Analyst Day and they offered some new analysis on this very topic.

Most content will never show a return on investment. The Web is overflowing with low-quality content. Sooner or later, senior management is going to pay serious attention to all this waste.

Lots of people jumping on the rumor that Google may be set to launch an online hard drive service, after slides alluded to such at the recent Google Analyst Day.

As the guy who pitched in for both BarCamp and MashupCamp, I should comment on the back and forth that happened this weekend.

AOL today is releasing its AOL Instant Messenger code to developers.

Origami Portal.com (yes, there’s already an Origami news site) has an image of what a final Microsoft Origami device might look like.