Yahoo! is changing. Terry Semel's resignation and co-founder Jerry Yang's return to the CEO position is one of the most visible changes. Yahoo! has always been harshly criticized for not Continue reading »

On Monday the blog Inside Facebook broke the story that the Facebook-only application Favorite Peeps had been acquired by slideshow creator Slide (and Slide confirmed to me yesterday that they Continue reading »

Tonight Microsoft is launching two more products into its suite of Windows Live branded consumer web apps - Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta and Windows Live Folders Beta. According to Continue reading »

Quick background: In April, Google sent a 50-page white paper to the US Department of Justice asserting that Microsoft was violating its 2002 antitrust settlement by not allowing outside desktop Continue reading »

In protest of a recent rate hike of 0.012 cents per song, per listener, from the current 0.007 cents rate (that's about 270% for you math gurus) by the US Continue reading »

Even with consolidation going on left and right, the galaxy of sites that make up what we call "web 2.0" is expanding at a frantic rate (or perhaps that elusive Continue reading »

Dan Farber talked to LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman on Friday at the Supernova 2007 conference, and was told that over the next 9 months LinkedIn will deliver APIs Continue reading »

I'm bemused by the latest blogging 'controversy' to dominate Techmeme. Normally I don't blog about these things, but this one has me as a central character - although I wasn't Continue reading »

Earlier today, Richard took a look at the state of e-learning 2.0, which got me to thinking about how school might be different if I were in college today because Continue reading »

One of the strongest, but least hyped, uses of web 2.0 technologies over the past couple of years has been e-learning. We've covered this topic extensively on Read/WriteWeb - and Continue reading »