Techcrunch is reporting that last week's rumors about Google being close to acquiring RSS feed management and advertising firm Feedburner have been confirmed. The purchase price is in the ball Continue reading »

Technorati announced a major relaunch this morning, 6-months in the making. The new Technorati has evolved from a blog search to, as the site puts it, an "everythinging in the Continue reading »

Personalized start page service Pageflakes today announced that their "Pagecasts" feature, which allows users to share their Pageflakes pages with the public or a specific group of users, has been Continue reading »

Today AdaptiveBlue released a new version of its BlueOrganizer product, a Firefox extension that aims to provide extra contextual information to you while browsing the Web. Basically after you install Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Facebook_Platform_The_Road_to_IPO'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; This week the Wall Street journal published an excellent piece on the upcoming Facebook Platform, which Josh also covered for Continue reading »

Written by Phil Butler digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/software/Second_Brain_Organizing_Your_Information_Chaos_Online'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Second Brain is a fascinating startup now in testing and accessible by invitation only. The service is Continue reading »

Editor's note: Sramana Mitra is currently running a series on her blog reviewing the photo sharing industry. In this Read/WriteWeb post, she looks at Flickr's offering using her Web Continue reading »

Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks has an interesting post today about Ask.com, in which he lays out his strategy for getting the search engine back on track. That caught my Continue reading »

Google today launched an improvement to their Trends service, Hot Trends, which lists the top 100 break out searches of each day. These are not the top searches, but the Continue reading »

At the end of January, we reported on a new "preview product" called Zoho Notebook. Well tonight it has launched as a beta product. In the office software space nowadays, Continue reading »