Wired has an awesome top story today on the world of startups utilizing scraped data from big companies to offer new layers of value for their own users. It's a Continue reading »

An interesting new online video series, called Open Media Web, debuted today. The first episode is an interview with Yahoo's Lucas Gonze - who created music playlisting service WebJay, Continue reading »

Tagging content online is something that doesn't seem to have taken off the way some people expected it to. Is it too complicated for widespread adoption? Is it too arbitrary Continue reading »

Having your service go down on your customers is certainly not a great way to close out the year. But PayPal developers are reporting that subscriptions are down, and have Continue reading »

At the risk of jinxing things - I think it's pretty clear that there's a historic shift underway between activities we used to engage in offline and things we now Continue reading »

In August, a month after eBay launch their Craigslist competitor Kijiji in the US, we weren't impressed. "Kijiji has a hard to pronounce/spell name, an uninviting splash page, and a Continue reading »

2007 was an eventful year in Web Technology, with the rise of Facebook, some frenzied acquisitions from the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, and of course the iPhone. Continue reading »

2007 has been a very busy year for ReadWriteWeb. We started the year with just one daily writer (yours truly!), a couple of regular feature writers (Alex Iskold and Continue reading »

Our network blog AltSearchEngines has been nominated for 3 Search Blog Awards at Search Engine Journal. ASE is up for: Best Search Engine Research Blog Breakout Blog of 2007 Most Continue reading »

Like everyone else YouTube has an end of the year list, but there's something a little strange about all the media coverage today on the "top YouTube videos of 2007." Continue reading »