YouTube's announcement tonight wasn't higher quality videos (yet), but a set of new APIs and expanded features. YouTube now describes itself as "an open, general purpose, video services platform, available Continue reading »

Today Alltop, an aggregator of RSS feeds, launched. It's a very similar product to one of my daily refreshes, OriginalSignal. Only Alltop covers a much broader range of topics, 40 Continue reading »

Twine is the most hyped semantic app of the season and recently opened up for some press previews. General availability of this smart, social bookmarking and research tool may come Continue reading »

If your team is spread out over a wide geographic region, online collaboration tools are key to getting everyone on the same page. Something that dispersed teams haven't had much Continue reading »

P2P music service Grooveshark is at SXSW Music this week, promoting the upcoming release of an Analytics suite for music artists and labels. The company is also generously offering ReadWriteWeb Continue reading »

Former Google Product Manger, Steffen Mueller, has launched Topicle, a new search engine community. The service, which went live today, uses a model similar to that of Wikipedia, allowing anyone Continue reading »

A new service from HP's IdeaLab is HP BookPrep, a print-on-demand service. With BookPrep, consumers can order any book, whether current or out-of-print, and have it prepared for them as Continue reading »

This week was Microsoft's MIX08 conference in Las Vegas. The event was filled with announcements, demos, and the debuts of new products, like IE8. Some of the news was expected, Continue reading »

Apple's iPhone is aimed to be a game changer for the mobile world and today has been one of the key turning points in that unfolding story. Today's announcements were Continue reading »

The new site at UN Data allows anyone to access the United Nations Data Access System. This online, easy-to-use database was created by the UN in order to provide current, Continue reading »