Earlier this week we wrote about the classic approach to the semantic web and the difficulties with that approach. While the original vision of the layer on top of the Continue reading »

This week Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! for a staggering $350M. It seems like only yesterday that Zimbra was the buzz of the 2005 Web Conference. But in two years, Continue reading »

Summary: The original vision of the semantic web as a layer on top of the current web, annotated in a way that computers can "understand," is certainly grandiose and intriguing. Continue reading »

The web as a platform is something we have written about quite a lot over the years here at Read/WriteWeb. Over the weekend, Marc Andreessen put up a lengthy post Continue reading »

Enterprises continue to adopt web technologies and 'web 2.0' trends, but there are two common threads to this adoption. One is that web technologies are step-by-step being adopted by enterprises, Continue reading »

Following my post on types of Social Networking sites, I saw a NYT article about sites targeting older people. Two days after that, Techrunch posted an article about massive layoffs Continue reading »

Started last March, Microsoft's i'm Initiative has enabled people to raise over $92,000 for ten charities by doing nothing more than chatting with their friends. The i'm program lets users Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Non_Profits_Web_Tool_Kit'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; We're focusing on non-profits and charities on Read/WriteWeb this week, and with that in mind, we decided to take a Continue reading »

The desire to network is as old as humanity and online social networking sites do seem to solve a need that is different from simply using email, chat and blogging Continue reading »

Brad Fitzpatrick recently wrote an elegant and important post about the Social Graph, a term used by Facebook to describe their social network. In his post, Fitzpatrick defines "social Continue reading »