In August AOL acquired online communications startup Userplane - which runs a suite of chat, IM, A/V Recorder, search and presence tools. AOL is in the midst of a big

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. DEMO conference - the premier launchpad for new technologies - has unveiled its list of companies selected to launch at DEMOfall

Next in our series on international Web markets is Japan. The information for this post was provided by Benjamin Joffe (CEO of Plus Eight Star Ltd) and Masashi Kobayashi (partner Continue reading »

Blog network 9rules has developed a custom-built search engine for its members' content. I've always admired 9rules' philosophy (note: R/WW used to be a member), because they're all about original

3Tera, a company based in California, has announced what it calls a breakthrough technology - "disposable infrastructure". This technology is the foundation of their product AppLogic, which they say is

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. The social bookmarking market is in a steady state with two dominant players - del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. The rest of the

Next in our series on international Web markets is France. Other countries profiled so far have been Germany, Holland, Poland, Korea, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain, China, Turkey, Italy and Brazil. Continue reading »

Google's Carl Sjogreen gave a talk at the Future of Web Apps conference about how they built Google Calendar. Rakesh Agrawal took extensive notes, as did Tim Bonnemann. What I

Interesting NY Times profile of Baidu, China's main search engine and currently the 4th biggest website in the world. It has a market value of $3 billion, but "some analysts"

In case your RSS Reader got the better of you over the working week, here's a snapshot of last week's Read/WriteWeb posts. The big web tech stories were Times Reader,