Last week was all about OpenSocial, Google's project that will tie together Google, MySpace and many other social networks in a common developer environment. The goal: one common set of

Our network blog AltSearchEngines reports that Google has around 90% search engine market share in France (well, 89.98% to be exact!). The next biggest is Yahoo ! (3.17%), followed by Continue reading »

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Google's OpenSocial has caused quite a stir over the past week. With support from MySpace, Hi5, Ning, LinkedIn, SalesForce, Friendster and a number of other large social networks, many have Continue reading »

Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, Continue reading »

TechCrunch has uncovered part of what Facebook will be announcing next week at ad:tech in New York. "Project Beacon" is an internal project that will allow Facebook to gather buying Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/University_Defies_RIAA_Demand_to_Release_Student_Downloaders_Names'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The University of Oregon (my alma mater, coincidentally) is believed to be the first US educational institution to refuse an

Florida-based DailyMe is a personalized news aggregation service that creates a daily online newspaper that can be delivered at set times via email or browsed from the web. The site Continue reading »

Back in June of 1999, while the dot com IPOs were coming fast and furious, I participated in a fantasy stock market game on Yahoo! Being 16 and having no Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/OpenSocial_Three_Big_Concerns'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The Google-lead initiative called OpenSocial is all the buzz this week with anyone interested in online innovation, but beyond all Continue reading »