still not sure? Netscape joins OpenID!

Netscape.com is the latest major brand after Digg, Netvibes and Wordpress joining OpenID. band wagons don’t get any larger, hm?

roundup: Future of Web Apps 2007 / Digg to support OpenID

fowa2007 – day #1
11.40 – Simon Wardley on commoditizing of IT: “there’s no sense whatsoever in setting up your own IT-infrastructure. maintaining your own web- or database-servers is what we call yak-shaving“. Zimki offers “pre-shaved yaks”, meaning a fully hosted, server-side javascript environment for rapid application development (not to forget Amazon S3 & EC2, which [...]

digg adds podcasts and video

social-news site digg.com announced a major upgrade earlier today. besides some changes in user-interface and frontpage-composition, biggest news is the integration of online-video and podcasts in the top-level navigation. podcasts can be dugg either by series or episode, playback for both audio- & video works straight from inside digg. popular footage from social-video sites like [...]

digg labs stack & swarm launch

unimpressed by the ongoing dispute between digg-founder Kevin Rose and AOL/Netscape’s Jason Calacanis concerning Jason’s lucrative offer to top digg-submitters, digg labs just launched two innovative data-visualization-features which might help staying ahead of Netscape.

the stack is a live-representation of users digging storys. each digg is visualized as a white bar dropping from above. each stack [...]

more to digg until end of july

Janko Röttgers – author of the P2PBlog and the book ‘Mix burn & R.I.P’ – did a short email-interview with Kevin Rose, founder & CEO of social-news-site Digg. I’m glad to hear that the data-visualization-features I missed in the digg 3.0 relaunch a month ago are obviously scheduled to be launched by the end of [...]

digg 3.0 launching june 26th

social tech-news-site digg is about to launch its version 3.0 on monday, june 26th. the most groundshaking change might be the new categorization of topics into six categories (technology, entertainment, gaming, science, world & business and online video). as Mike Arrington points out, digg has surpassed former leader slashdot in terms of pageviews long ago, [...]