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 »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Digg_YouTube_Facebook_As_Games'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; In a comment on our recent post The Digg Effect, C. Weng pointed to an e-book he has written called

The NY Times reports today about Coca-Cola's new virtual world website. Coke has set up an island called CC Metro in the virtual world There.com (a similar site to SecondLife, Continue reading »