We've discussed before on Read/WriteWeb about how we've entered The Digestion Phase of the Web, a term that Alex Iskold coined. He defined it as "a period of time for Continue reading »

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." Bill Clinton can rest easy knowing that he will soon have more verb options when updating his status on Continue reading »

SprialFrog, the big music industry's experiment with free music downloads, is bleeding money and considering hiring bloggers to improve their public profile. According to financial filings required by the Continue reading »

Walt Whitman said that he liked to write in iambic pentameter because there is beauty in constraints. I think about that often when I use Google Custom Search Engine, which

Last night, Mozilla released the first public beta version of Firefox 3. You can grab version 3.01b from the beta download site. According to Mozilla, the new release has fixed Continue reading »

stumble it add to del.icio.usWhen I first discovered Twitter, my reaction was much like many peoples'. I thought it sounded stupid. I, like hundreds of thousands of other people, Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Nearly_Never_Ending_Market_for_Niche_Social_Networks'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; A niche social network for people recovering from addiction, called SoberCircle, hit Del.icio.us popular this morning and it made me Continue reading »

Just a couple of weeks ago, CNET's Don Reisinger wrote that Blockbuster was doomed. After posting a quarterly net loss of $35 million, closing 526 stores over the past year, Continue reading »

If you have a fast broadband Internet connection, enjoy it while it's still fast. According to a study by Nemertes Research, video and interactive web sites will begin to overwhelm Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/TinyURL_Outage_Illustrates_the_Service_s_Risks'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The link shortening and redirection service TinyURL went down apparently for hours last night (it's still down, in fact), rendering Continue reading »