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The Washington Post launched a new political database site today, lead by a top political blogger it snapped up this month from a leading new media site. Are these the

The innovative OPML browser plug-in BlogRovr is announcing tonight that it has been acquired by PR monitoring and ad sales startup BuzzLogic. It's a victory for all the startups who

George Bush signed a $555 billion omnibus spending bill yesterday that included a huge victory for advocates of open science on the internet. All research funded by the US National

Earthmine, the Best Technology Innovation/Achievement category winner at tonight's Crunchies, is a company that might seem uninteresting at first glance. When I first saw earthmine I assumed that it was

Real-time information delivery is fast emerging as one of the most important elements of our online experience. No more waiting for the Pony Express to deliver a parcel cross-country, no

Google and Microsoft are both in talks with Twitter to buy access to the company's full fire hose of messages and shared links, according to a report this morning from

This weekend Microsoft withdrew its bid to buy Yahoo! and there's plenty to be read about the business angles in the collapse of the deal. Here at RWW we're focused

For some, the term "dark web" simply means all the online data that search engine spiders can't reach, crawl, or index, but for the University of Arizona's AI Lab, the

The Google Reader team announced tonight that the wildly popular online feed reader now recommends additional feeds to users based on our subscription lists, web browsing history and "more." It's

Noovo is a full-on lifestreaming / blogging / bookmarking / everything (except social network) app that launched out of private beta last week. It calls itself a "social discovery engine";