Founded in 2000, the people behind LimeWire now form the largest team of developers building applications for the Gnutella network. Using Java, the LimeWire application is consistent across multiple platforms. Even though file-swapping makes Hollywood a bit nervous, peer-based applications will likely play significant roles in our ever-the-more connected future. Greg Bildson, CTO/COO of LimeWire [...]

Friendster was launched in 2002 by Netscape alumni, Jonathan Abrams. The site is based upon the natural premise of friends connecting friends – or social (networked) clusters, as the academics like to call it. Since that time, the site has grown to over one million connected users, spawned fan and parody sites, and resulted in [...]

In 1998 Derek started CDBaby out of a simple apartment in New York, as a means to sell his own music online. Since that date, the site has sold over 500,000 CDs on behalf of the 44,000 artists represented. The operation in Portland, Oregon is second only to Amazon in the sale of independent music [...]

Daniel Chan is the founder of Daypop, a self-described “current events search engine.” Each day, the Daypop system scours a wide array of news websites, zines, and blogs to find the most popular story links, weblogs and memes. At the time of this interview, Daypop indexes over 59,000 sites daily. Daniel also runs the we::blog [...]