digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Web_s_Top_Takeover_Targets'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; This past year has been a very eventful one in the M&A arena, with many of web 2.0's biggest names Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Self_Publishing_Tool_Kit_How_to_Write_and_Publish_a_Novel'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Over the weekend the final book in the Harry Potter series was released. In the first 24 hours of release Continue reading »

Last week the personalized start page Pageflakes announced its latest version, nicknamed Blizzard. It introduces social networking functionality, themes, a slick Ajax UI, and more. What struck me about the Continue reading »

This was Facebook Week here at Read/WriteWeb, but I couldn't help but notice how many other blogs wrote posts about Facebook this week as well. It seemed that almost every Continue reading »

This week I spoke with Barney Pell, CEO of Powerset; and Melek Pulatkonak, COO of hakia. In both (separate) conversations we discussed how the Semantic Web is getting very close. Continue reading »

It has been just under 2 months since Facebook launched their platform initiative, but this self-opening move has already had an extremely positive impact on the company. The changes are Continue reading »

In a previous article, we explained that the pivot of the internet is shifting from search to social interactions. But this doesn't necessarily mean that search is losing its value. Continue reading »

Emotions are everywhere you look on the Web. They're bursting from blogs, coursing through comments, and flooding forums the world over. An with the rise of microblogging apps like Twitter Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Web_Apps_We_Love_2_Hate'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; This list is a group of companies we wish would just go away. Their basis is controversial to say the Continue reading »

In our introductory post on Citizen Journalism (CJ), we reviewed Newsvine - an innovative and well-designed citizen journalism web site. In this post we'll review two examples of 'localized' CJ: Continue reading »