A five year old bet was settled last night between New York Times executive Martin Nisenholtz and Web 2.0 Founding Father Dave Winer. Five years ago Winer bet Nisenholtz that Continue reading »

A new poll from Harris Interactive was released this morning, finding that US respondents are more excited about watching mainstream, commercial content like full length TV shows and movies online Continue reading »

Ah ads, nobody likes ads. Especially ads that postpone your enjoyment of some media -- that's why 70% of people using TiVo to timeshift television are also skipping the Continue reading »

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Advertising in the blogosphere, and indeed the web at large, is driven by page views. And Google, which also relies on page views and unique visitors to make money, is Continue reading »

Over the next few weeks we'll be reviewing a number of Web product categories on Read/WriteWeb, summarizing what's happened in 2007 - and what to look forward to in Continue reading »

Earlier in the year, we posed the question, "are social bookmarking sites better at search than Google?" At the time, some people thought they already were. Our conclusion then was Continue reading »

This is a guest article by Stephen Ward. He writes for DailyBits.com, a blog focused on web development, software and online marketing. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/design/The_10_Most_Marketable_Web_Development_Skills'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Facebook_and_The_Myth_Of_Contextual_Advertising'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; There is a myth floating around that contextual advertising is going to help Facebook justify its $15 billion valuation. The Continue reading »

Last week we wondered if maybe MoveOn was a bit premature in declaring victory when Facebook changed their Beacon advertising system to be explicitly opt-in. Was Facebook still gathering information Continue reading »