In keeping with Mayor Bloomberg's focus on innovation, transparency, accessibility, and accountability, New York City is today launching the NYC BigApps Competition, a challenge to developers to create software based Continue reading »

In its fifth year, Google's Summer of Code continues to usher advanced education students into the open source environment. For a three-month period, 150 open source projects benefit from the Continue reading »

Google I/O is a now annual event being held this year on May 27 - 28, 2009 in San Francisco. It's aimed at web developers, to whom Google will showcase Continue reading »

Google has made a tradition of tweaking its logotype in honor of holidays, special events, and celebrations. And that tweaking has resulted in a library of interesting interpretations of "Google." Continue reading »

It's no secret that a few of us here at ReadWriteWeb are big fans of Ocarina, the iPhone app from Smule that converts your iPhone into an ancient woodwind instrument. Continue reading »

With the current economic conditions, finding funding can be a challenge for many young companies - or even established ones. Sometimes it helps to get creative. For Yieldex - a Continue reading »

Project10X has just published a "Web 3.0 Manifesto". It's a kind of sequel to their Semantic Wave 2008 report released in January this year. Mills Davis, Managing Director of Project10X, Continue reading »

Earlier this week we ran a competition for 2 full tickets to the New York Web 2.0 Expo conference 16-19 Sept. The tickets are valued at over $1000 each and Continue reading »

We had a great response to last night's competition offering 2 full passes to the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo. Over 100 people left a comment telling us their favorite web Continue reading »

ReadWriteWeb has 2 tickets to next week's Web 2.0 Expo to give away, courtesy of Technorati. These are full conference passes, worth $1,895 each, so they will get you into Continue reading »