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The BBC's Internet presence came online ten years ago this past weekend on December 15th, 1997, and for the past few months on the new BBC Internet Blog, company executives

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

Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups,

Nielsen, the brand name synonymous with measuring the size of a crowd gathered around a handful of media outlets in the old broadcast model, has decided it needs to get

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/music/Amazon_to_Give_Away_1_Billion_Free_MP3s_in_Superbowl_Promotion'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Billboard magazine has done some fine sleuthing and turned up a number of developments in the works that may push

With the rise of MP3s and other forms of downloadable music, the venerable mixtape, which Wikipedia says gained mass popularity in the 1980s, may be going the way of the

SprialFrog, the big music industry's experiment with free music downloads, is bleeding money and considering hiring bloggers to improve their public profile. According to financial filings required by the

I used to write a blog about ebooks - some of you may remember eBook Culture (alas I let the domain name slip and so it was gobbled up by

Peter Rojas, the man who was present at the founding of both of the two most linked-to blogs on the internet (Engadget and Gizmodo), launched the online music site he's

Update: Since the publication of this post, Amazon's PR people have contacted me a number of times to request that we remove this coverage based on a draft press