Newly appointed Futurist-in-residence at the New York Times, Michael Rogers, spoke with Patrick Phillips from iwantmedia.com. I was particularly interested in what Rogers had to say about Times Reader,

Pew has released its analysis of how the Internet will evolve over the next 14 or so years (2020). I'm inclined to agree with Om Malik that the conclusions

A new documentary on Silicon Valley premieres today on DVD. It was directed by my friend Steve O'Hear, who I met over the Web earlier this year and now work

Another busy week of Web Tech news and analysis. Here is what we covered on Read/WriteWeb during the week (number of comments in brackets)... OneWebDay: In Celebration Of The Web

For some great weekend reading, check out this Fortune magazine article that gets inside the great Google brain. Some extracts that I enjoyed... "What emerges from months of interviews

Today is the first OneWebDay, a global awareness event to "create, maintain, advance and promote a global day to celebrate online life." It was founded by Susan Crawford, associate professor

In the clearest sign yet that the big guns are preparing to step up the battle for Web Office, Microsoft has said it is considering releasing a version of Microsoft

We've seen a lot of action in the 'personalized start page' space on the consumer side, but relatively little development in business web 'start pages'. Salesforce.com has an interesting feature

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. With all this buzz around the potential Yahoo! acqusition of Facebook for $1Billion, we think it's time to do the social

The WSJ is reporting that US Social Networking site Facebook is in serious talks to sell itself to Yahoo, for an amount that may be as high as $1 billion.