It's been a long and winding road for serial volunteer and social media philanthropist Sloane Berrent. Since her unplanned departure from an L.A.-based startup in 2008, tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kivas_causemopolitan_on_social_media_for_social_go.php'; tweetmeme_source Continue reading »

Some people go to Washington to try to make the government more honest; others try to make it smaller. Technologist Tim O'Reilly is spending time in Washington, and bringing Washington Continue reading »

In part 2 of my one-on-one interview with Tim Berners-Lee, we explore a variety of topics relating to Linked Data and the Semantic Web. If you missed it, in Part Continue reading »

During my recent trip to Boston, I had the opportunity to visit MIT. At the end of a long day of meetings with various MIT tech masterminds, I made my Continue reading »

Mathew Ingram is the Communities Editor at the Toronto-based Globe And Mail, Canada's biggest newspaper. He's a traditionally-trained reporter, but he's got years of experience blogging and using experimental new Continue reading »

Pity the poor venture capitalist. Times were... well, so cushy. Money was flowing, deals were being done in record time, monetization was something one worried about later, and Silicon Valley Continue reading »

In my recent visit to Silicon Valley, I got the chance to visit the Mozilla headquarters. Among others at the organization, I spoke to Chris Beard - Mozilla's Chief Innovation Continue reading »

Dan Hon is building a radical new future for one of humanity's oldest activities - the telling of stories. The modest young UK CEO's design company Six to Start won Continue reading »

"By 2010 we will have run out of IP addresses if we don't do something about it," Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist and the man commonly referred to as Continue reading »

While Matt Mullenweg was in France for WordCamp Paris 2009, the team from ReadWriteWeb France took the opportunity to catch up with him and ask him a few questions about Continue reading »