Quick background: In April, Google sent a 50-page white paper to the US Department of Justice asserting that Microsoft was violating its 2002 antitrust settlement by not allowing outside desktop Continue reading »

I know you don't want to read another blog post about the People Ready controversy, which was ignited by Valleywag on Friday US and turned into an all-in brawl over Continue reading »

In protest of a recent rate hike of 0.012 cents per song, per listener, from the current 0.007 cents rate (that's about 270% for you math gurus) by the US Continue reading »

The other day I tracked down another early alpha-testing startup called Fairtilizer, which is an online music community aspiring to define a new generation of music media. The premise behind Continue reading »

Even with consolidation going on left and right, the galaxy of sites that make up what we call "web 2.0" is expanding at a frantic rate (or perhaps that elusive Continue reading »

Dan Farber talked to LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman on Friday at the Supernova 2007 conference, and was told that over the next 9 months LinkedIn will deliver APIs Continue reading »

On Thursday at the Supernova conference, Udi Manber Google's VP of Engineering talked about what a difficult problem search is. This was followed up by Sheryl Sandberg, Google's Global VP Continue reading »

I'm bemused by the latest blogging 'controversy' to dominate Techmeme. Normally I don't blog about these things, but this one has me as a central character - although I wasn't Continue reading »

Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the weekly wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email: Continue reading »

Earlier today, Richard took a look at the state of e-learning 2.0, which got me to thinking about how school might be different if I were in college today because Continue reading »