Quoted: Joost – one of last year’s hottest startups and so far one of this year’s biggest flops – is pulling a 180 in strategy. According to Om Malik, the video service will kill off its desktop client and replace it with a Web version that will utilize a “small plugin that would embed itself in the browser and allow you to grab files using the P2P technologies”

Lower than the low just prior to the first MS announcement.

Quoted: Yahoo’s already crushed stock price has fallen further today - its down 8.36% since this morning, bringing it to a nearly five year low of $17.75. Yahoo has been as high as $34 in the last year (thanks to that Microsoft takeover bid), which means nearly $23 billion has been taken out of shareholder pockets in that period.

Quoted: Neal Stephenson's new novel Anathem comes out next week, and there's something very timely about his tale of aliens on a parallel Earth whose inhabitants are locked into an occasionally-catastrophic conflict between scientific and religious institutions. The planet Arbre, which is very much like Earth in some ways, differs from our world one major

Quoted: We covered SocialMedian’s Beta launch earlier this summer, and since then they’ve been listening to their members. After several weeks of feedback and hundreds of suggestions, they’ve just announced their first major release with several major changes to the service. Here are the four new core features: News-Streaming SocialMedian calls this feature

Quoted: OPENSports has launched the “OPEN Sports Fantasy Football Commissioner,” a first-of-its-kind fantasy football commissioner that is FREE for LIFE. The product offers custom league set-up, custom scoring options, public and private leagues, live scoring and more. With fantasy football leagues ramping up for the start of the NFL and college seasons,

I understand that this release has the Riya facial recognition stuff in it.

Quoted: According to a report on CNet, the next version of Google's Picasa Web Albums will go live at noon PST today. The central new feature of this version will be automated face recognition and tagging. In tandem with this update, Google will also launch a new version of Picasa, its desktop photo management software, which will also get a number of new features...

Quoted: Recently, Google’s free Blogging platform, Blogger (aka Blogspot.com), introduced a new feature where blog owners can easily see who are reading their blogs as well as display which blogs they are reading. Although, there are third-party applications who can do this - Yahoo’s MyBloglog for instance, Blogger’s Following feature is easily activated through

Quoted: Kidmondo, a service we featured back in May, took a bet on offering a journal for parents interested in blogging about their babies’ growth and development, from their earliest moments to well into their K-12 years. Yet it did not address the post production element at the time. What to do with all that material once your kid went round the bend, as

From Tony Wright's blog...

Quoted: My first experience with stock options was at the ripe age of 34 years old, when I was selling Jobby (retired) to Jobster (Gah, make the Web 2.0 names STOP!). Before that, I’d been running my own business for close to a decade– with good success, but there really wasn’t any sense in setting up an options plan. So when selling our company and getting