On the one hand she rails against corporate greed. On the other hand, Arianna Huffington, one of the web's most prominent political bloggers, refuses to pay the legion of citizen Continue reading »

In 2001, spam accounted for an estimated 5% of our email. In 2007, it clogs our inboxes to the tune of 90-95% of all email sent, according to a new Continue reading »

Call me a purist, call me stubborn, call me antediluvian, but I cringe whenever I see Internet chat, emails, or text messages that contain more acronyms, numbers, and symbols than Continue reading »

In 2004 it was blog. In 2005 it was integrity. Last year it was truthiness. This year, among the twenty words competing for Merriam-Webster's 2007 Word of the Year contest, Continue reading »

Web traffic analysts Hitwise released a report this morning claiming that Google's search market share has continued to grow and is now 65.1%, up 5% from November of last year.

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/The_Evolution_of_Personal_Publishing'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Fred Wilson recently wrote a post on his blog in which he argues that the rapid adoption of Twitter and Continue reading »

Every year in December Read/WriteWeb does a Best Web Companies round-up. This is the 4th time and, like last year, we're splitting it over two posts. In this post we'll Continue reading »

Research firm Borrell Associates predicts that 2008 online spending for local advertisements will jump 48% to $12.6 billion driven by a demand for paid search and video ads, according to Continue reading »

LinkedIn just announced two new things: 1) a new Beta home page with a news feed; and 2) a developer API. Marshall Kirkpatrick covered the announcement this morning on Read/WriteWeb. Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/programming/How_to_Get_Good_Offshore_Developers'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; This article is part of a regular series by Matt Rogers, co-founder of Aroxo, on the topic of bootstrapping a Continue reading »