Today Particls, billed by many as an RSS feed manipulator/organizer, came out of invitation-only testing with a host of tools for users. Particls essentially serves as a proportioning alert filter Continue reading »

Yesterday venture capitalist Josh Kopelman unleashed a diatribe ripping into MySpace and praising Facebook for the recent move to open up and become a platform for widget developers. Kopelman estimates Continue reading »

We've all seen CAPTCHAs, those automated pictures of letters and numbers meant to foil spam bots. Some are more diabolical than others, but most are annoying. Now a team of Continue reading »

The Semantic Conference was held last week in San Jose. I went along to check it out. In the keynotes, Oracle's Robert Shimp noted that the attendance has never been Continue reading »

The Times of England reports that founders of UK dot com 'star' Lastminute.com, Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox, have teamed up again with a new business called Mydeco.com, Continue reading »

Check out Don Dodge's recent article, entitled 'Why 1% of search market share is worth over $1 Billion'. His math concludes that each search query produces $0.12 ad revenue, which Continue reading »

Yoono CEO Pascal Josselin has announced the public beta release of a new Web clipping feature called Buzz it! - available as a plugin for FireFox (it can also be Continue reading »

I've been thinking a lot about the Facebook Platform (who hasn't?), and about who is in the best position to take them on. The obvious answer is MySpace, still the Continue reading »

The R/WW Weekly Wrapup is sponsored by: Another busy week of Web Tech, including big news from Facebook and rumors of a Feedburner acquisition. This week also marked the launch Continue reading »

Editor's note: Sramana Mitra is currently running a series on her blog reviewing the photo sharing industry. Her previous Read/WriteWeb post discussed Flickr and in this post she looks at Continue reading »