TechCrunch (Thursday)
If you want to add social smarts to your browsing experience, Glue by Adaptive Blue just got better. Glue is a Firefox add-on that uses semantic technology to understand the subject of the page you are on and shows you via a bar at the bottom of your browser whether your friends have commented or...

TechCrunch (Thursday)
If you want to add social smarts to your browsing experience, Glue by Adaptive Blue just got better. Glue is a Firefox add-on that uses semantic technology to understand the subject of the page you are on and shows you via a bar at the bottom of your browser whether your friends have commented or...

Silicon Alley Insider (Thursday)

Foursquare, the newish iPhone app from ex-Googler/Dodgeball creator Dennis Crowley, lets you see where your friends are hanging out in real-time via their "check-ins."

Googler Jon Steinberg has taken that to the next step, tapping into Foursquare's API to anonymously track (and map) the mo...

Techdirt (Thursday)
It's amazing how badly some people misunderstand the First Amendment. It only limits the government from passing laws that limit your free expression (with certain exceptions). It has nothing to do with what a private company or individual can do. In other words, it's not a right to say whatever ...

Silicon Alley Insider (Thursday)

It looks like Amazon got a nice pickup by acquiring beloved online shoe retailer Zappos for 10 million shares (roughly $890 million) and $40 million in cash and restricted stock.

With Zappos' 2008 revenues estimated above $1 billion, Amazon will end up paying less than 1X revenue f...

News.com (Thursday)
Facebook apps that enhance the way you manage and interact with images on the popular social network are great. But which services are best? Find out.