Search guru-supreme Danny Sullivan got an answer out of Google this weekend concerning the search engine's long-suspected practice of punishing websites in search results when they are alleged to have Continue reading »

Tim O'Reilly and team have done some interesting research into the rise of Facebook as an application platform. They released a report entitled The Facebook Application Platform, which we've been Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Champagne_at_the_Googleplex_GOOG_Above_600_share'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Google gained 15.57 today to close at $609.62/share today, breaking the 600 point barrier for the first time. That puts Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Google_and_IBM_Bet_the_Server_Farm_on_Cloud_Computing'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Google and IBM are betting the (server) farm on cloud computing. The New York Time is reporting that the two Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_deals/Are_Recommendation_Engines_a_Threat_to_the_Long_Tail'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Two Wharton academics released an interesting paper last week that asks whether online recommendation services are a threat to the Continue reading »

There are a ton of free gift apps on Facebook, which begs the question, why would you ever spend $1 on one of Facebook's official gifts? Or even more ludicrous, Continue reading »

Today Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson contacted Read/WriteWeb to announce that his citizen journalism startup Newsvine has been acquired by MSNBC, the Microsoft/NBC joint venture, for an undisclosed sum. Davidson told Continue reading »

The star of Adobe's annual MAX conference, held this year in Chicago between Sept. 30 and Oct. 3, was the web application. Web apps and their creation permeated nearly everything Continue reading »

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Trillian Astra, the next version of the popular Windows multi-client chat application Trillian, is being developed for the Mac. Cerulean Studios, the makers of Trillian, has released a limited and Continue reading »