After years of struggling to beat Netflix's Cinematch recommendation algorithm by a baseline of 10%, two groups have emerged. While both teams produced qualifying systems, BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos submitted their Continue reading »

Are you pissed off about potholes, graffiti or broken street lights? Similar to the Federal government's efforts with Data.gov and Google's recent Public Sector release, CitySourced is offering users a Continue reading »

If you're a lobbyist / advocate, conspiracy theorist or Freakonomics fan, then you'll love DataMasher. The map-based mash up site just took the Sunlight Foundation's $10,000 grand prize in the Continue reading »

According to this year's Comscore stats, consumer publishing platform Wikia has surpassed DIY tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/warcraft_and_twilight_fans_make_wikia_profitable.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; social network competitor Ning for monthly unique visitors. Since July 2008 Continue reading »

Prior to 2001, gilded hard cover encyclopedias were cracked to fact check everything from raptor names to State capitals. Today the world's most popular English encyclopedia is more often used 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 »

If you're familiar with the overseas micro-lending space, then you're familiar with Kiva. In 2008, ReadWriteWeb readers chose Kiva as one of their favorite Web 2.0 apps. In 2009, the Continue reading »

The Wikimedia Foundation just emailed ReadWriteWeb to announce receipt of $500,000 in grant funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The grant is a part of a $100 million Continue reading »

In today's blog post by Chief Strategy Officer Mike Maser, Digg announced that it will be rolling out its beta ad program later this week. In addition to the community's Continue reading »

Wikipedia is aflutter with angry psychologists demanding that the community take down reproductions of 10 original Rorschach inkblot plates and their statistically common responses. The Rorschach tests have been used Continue reading »