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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

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Are_Social_Bookmarking_Sites_Better_at_Search_than_Google'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; I have long thought that social bookmarking and ranking sites like del.icio.us, digg, and StumbleUpon could be used to enhance

It was 5 years ago today that Yahoo! stopped using Google to power its searches and started using its own search technology, the company wrote today in a blog post.

News just broke that Google has hired Joshua Schachter, digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Scoops_Up_Del_icio_us_Founder';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';the founder of social bookmarking service Delicious. Schachter left Yahoo! six months ago, two and

For the past two days, AltSearchEngines editor Charles Knight has been attending the Search Marketing Expo: Social Media conference in New York City. He's been live blogging every session from

This is the third annual Best Web Companies round-up from Read/WriteWeb (ref: 2005 and 2004). This year we're spreading it out over 2 separate posts and this is the second

Last week was arguably a tipping point for FriendFeed, the lifestreaming app that aggregates all of your social feeds together. FriendFeed first came to our attention in early February, when

Seattle based travel startup Yapta.com re-launched its homepage today as a full-service air travel search engine. Yapta originally launched in May 2007 as a browser add-on for bookmarking flight information

James Corbett has an interesting post speculating that Google Reader might become a 'read/write' app over the course of 2007. Says James: "The addition of support for tagging and link

Yesterday Richard opined that Digg could use some editors so that if someone submits a story with a nonsensical description or lame title it could be fixed instead of seeing