When you think of widgets you typically think of web 2.0 companies. Flickr, Digg, del.icio.us were among the first services with widgets and many more followed. Indeed, if you're a Continue reading »

Firefox is a browser that can be extended and enhanced in many ways - chief among those being Add-ons, which give you more functionality or perhaps just a new theme. Continue reading »

Fred Wilson has a slightly provocative post this weekend addressing The Age Question, suggesting that it is "harder for anyone older than 30 to get funded in the web services 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 »

Ever since Facebook announced its open platform at the end of May, I have been receiving a flurry of emails from friends and blog buddies wanting to connect on Facebook. Continue reading »

Last week we profiled eyeOS, which had just launched its 1.0 version. This week the eyeOS team contacted me to claim that a new competitor, MyBooo, has broken the Open Continue reading »

If you ever wanted to know what I look and sound like, here I am courtesy of Ross Dawson and One Minute World, a neat new service that specializes in

UrbanSeeder is a start up from Israel whose goal is to "incite some love, friendship and mutual growth" by enabling real world connections to continue online in a safe and Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Exclusive_Stealth_Natural_Language_Processing_Search_Engine_Launched'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Lately there's been a swirl of buzz about Powerset, a stealth natural language processing search engine. Last week they released Continue reading »

Written by Mircea Goia Romania is a country of 21 million people and is the biggest from the Balkans (Eastern Europe). The total Internet penetration rate is about 23% Continue reading »