Russia, which is home to almost 30 million of Europe's 350 million Internet users may begin to extend its strict media censorship laws to the Internet, according to a report Continue reading »

According to yesterday's article in the Guardian, the three largest social networks in the U.K., MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo, all experienced large drops in membership between December, 2007 and January, Continue reading »

TechCrunch's Mike Butcher reports about Turkish social network Yonja's $12.5 million worth of funding and asks, "What is it about Turkey?." As a Turkish native, I think I am the Continue reading »

According to latest report from China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), by end of 2007, there are over 200 million Internet users (including 163 million broadband users) in China. 2008 Continue reading »

10 years ago, in 1997, I wrote an article called Playing Against 5 Aces for a technology magazine in India called Dataquest. The article looked at how the deck Continue reading »

Don't let the headline excite you, there's still no easy way to play poker online from a US-based computer -- at least not with money involved. But today the Continue reading »

In July 2006 Read/WriteWeb posted the first in what was to be a long and fruitful series on International web apps. The first post was on Germany, inspired at the Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Wikipedia_to_Pay_Illustrators'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Wikipedia is formulating a plan to pay contributors of selected illustrations, according to a report this morning in the NYT.

While it's a holiday arguably celebrating imperialism here in the US, there's a whole world online that's still busy at work. RWW has covered the top Web 2.0 sites in Continue reading »

The team over at Live.com Translation have released a very simple tool that allows anyone to put a drop-down translation menu on their website. Here's a live example, entered