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Aviary, the free, web-based suite of image-editing apps, is hatching a new addition today: A free, web-based audio editor to rival GarageBand and its ilk. The application, called Myna, will

Many web apps claim virality; very few actually find it. tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/09/going-viral-in-6-questions-par.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; In a new series exploring the anatomy of truly viral apps, our first specimen

Think twice about that huge font and those glassy icons: Look and feel is the first thing we see and notice about most web apps and is often critical to

Data.gov launched in May this year to make huge data sets of information from federal agencies available in machine-readable formats. While incredibly valuable, these data sets are not particularly useful

In 48 hours last weekend, 237 developer teams competed and generated a total of 137 qualifying web applications, all developed with Ruby and Rails on the back end. The 2009

Tonido has reviled the whole concept of cloud computing, calling it an "anomaly... in the natural order of things." In an age when virtual computing, cloud server technology, netbooks, and