This is guest post by Dan Zarrella, a social media marketing consultant. You can follow him on Twitter here. Building popularity on Twitter is about gaining followers, and the most Continue reading »

Would you like to know more about the different options available for an OpenID account? SpreadOpenID.org is a great looking project aiming to make it easy to learning about and Continue reading »

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 it will be held Continue reading »

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), have launched an application development contest on both Google's Open Social and the Facebook Platform. The contest calls for developers to Continue reading »

Songbird is a desktop music player I've been using lately instead of iTunes and I've really been enjoying it. Based at core on Mozilla technology, this week the company kicked Continue reading »

The use of social networking and web-based organizing tools in politics has been a major story over the past year (in fact, we named it as our 6th most important Continue reading »

After Peter Drucker told us in 1966 that we were becoming a knowledge economy, it was inevitable that big companies would spend lots of money on complex knowledge management Continue reading »

In December we did a number of year end lists about Web technology, which we hope are useful reference points for some of the market segments we cover across the Continue reading »

Yes, Driftr is yet another travel social network - but it's one with a lot of potential. Although there are many sites out there that can help you plan Continue reading »

It seems obvious that privacy is going to be a major point of contention in the near-term future. It's only going to get hotter as major online services compile huge Continue reading »