Techmeme has become one my primary navigational sources for daily reading / news (others include email, Google RSS, Facebook, NYTimes, TechCrunch, etc). Twitter isn’t yet there because it is simply too noisy to be efficient. …

Introducing http://news.ryanspoon.com - I encourage you to test it out!
About a year ago, I weened myself off of Digg (at least partially) and moved onto Hacker News. Hacker News is the best mix of technology …

In March, I wrote that Yahoo Buzz could pose a threat to Digg because of their ability to drive more traffic - and I assumed that Digg’s product would be markedly better.
Now four days …

A couple months ago, I had the following email exchange with one of the sharpest, big internet-thinkers I know. I thought very little of the discussion until the past few days. Speaking about iGoogle:
…My …

Over the last few years - in *numerous* settings - I have heard different variations of the following: “Why should we build it internally when we can let it be proven elsewhere… and either build …

On Friday, I had my first Techmeme ‘headline’ and it offered the chance to compare what I refer to as “The Front Page Effect” – what happens when your website / article appears on the …

I’ve added The StatBot to my must-read blogroll - they put together some fascinating analysis and statistics across top web 2.0 sites… oh yeah, it’s done by a 17 year old “wannabe geek from India”. …

Yesterday Scoble unveiled his new blog theme and the resounding feedback among the 150+ comments was positive… and how’d he create that FriendFeed widget?
For those web 2.0 users, Widgetbox has a new widget that aggregates …

SportsWrap had a post reach #1 on Digg’s homepage… And this is the result:

I’ve had a few interesting email exchanges in the past week about start pages. One friend of mine recently converted to Netvibes - the other switched to iGoogle… and both made the switch from …

A week after Yahoo Buzz launched, I suggested that Digg shouldn’t have reason to be nervous unless Yahoo took advantage of their ability to deliver greater traffic to publishers: “…Yahoo has an opportunity to out-muscle …

Digg can be described as an ecosystem for news readers and contributors. That ecosystem is usually thought to be both wide and deep. But below is snapshot of just how critical (and influential) the top …