Brighter Planet is a venture backed financial service that uses an innovative web interface to help you track and reduce your carbon footprint. Just like hybrid car owners obsess about Continue reading »

One of the categories at next week's Crunchies awards show, which ReadWriteWeb is co-hosting, is Best technology innovation / achievement. The 5 finalists in that category are: Earthmine, Like, Continue reading »

Like Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, rumors about Microsoft buying so-and-so just won't die. The latest rumor to keep floating across our desk is that Microsoft is buying second place content Continue reading »

The third batch of tickets for the Crunchies startup awards ceremony and party are available now for purchase. The event is a collaboration between ReadWriteWeb, GigaOm, VentureBeat and TechCrunch and Continue reading »

A couple of weeks ago, I surmised that because Apple enjoys a dominating end-to-end position in the digital music market, most consumers are never really affected by the DRM restrictions Continue reading »

Sick of Facebook application overload? Feeling like you're on Myspace all over again? The Facebook team has heard your cries and announced tonight that they will soon release a new Continue reading »

Many of us are wondering what Apple has in store for their annual expo, Macworld, which begins this Monday. Last year it was the iPhone, two years ago it Continue reading »

The World Community Grid is an organization whose mission is to create the "largest public computing grid benefiting humanity." Similar to the well-known SETI@Home project, individuals donate their computers Continue reading »

Following the December announcement that social network Bebo was aligning itself to the Facebook platform, the company announced today that the Bebo Open Application Platform is "100% open" – Continue reading »

Human-built search engine Mahalo appears to be shooting past the traffic numbers it got when it launched, according to Heather Hopkins at traffic analyst firm Hitwise. Mahalo pages are collections Continue reading »