Dominic Pouzin is a worldly, smart guy. After doing school and internships in France, the UK, South Korea and India, he moved to Atlanta where he took a job in Continue reading »

An Interview With TweetDeck Founder Iain Dodsworth tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_value_of_twitter_data_the_future_of_tweetdeck.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; A small startup company called InfoChimps released for sale yesterday three very large sets of data extracted Continue reading »

Data extracted from 500 million Twitter messages was released today by a tiny Texas startup company that forward-looking geeks have been watching for a year. Austin-based Infochimps announced this afternoon Continue reading »

Data.gov, the US federal government's new catalog of sets of public data for outside developers to mashup and analyze, now faces some friendly competition. The Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan non-profit Continue reading »

A team of journalist-engineers from ProPublica and The New York Times has been awarded the Grand Prize in this year's Knight News Challenge and will receive $700k to build DocumentCloud, Continue reading »

Smart electrical grids that deliver energy consumption data from the home to a utility company, through software for analysis and back to consumers at home again, are believed to be Continue reading »

"So that government information is accessible and useful for the widest possible group of people, I have asked Sir Tim Berners-Lee who led the creation of the world wide web, Continue reading »

Three weeks ago Google demonstrated a new product in Labs called Google Squared; it's a search engine that creates structured data from big piles of information and lets users compare Continue reading »

StatPlot is the newest project of sports statistic aggregator StatSheet and you're likely to enjoy it whether you're a sports fan or not. The site makes it easy to assemble Continue reading »

It's a little bit scary, but widget and sharing service ClearSpring said this morning that the company's media widgets and newly acquired AddThis plug-in are now seen by more than Continue reading »