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This is a guest post by by Zach Beauvais. Talis is a bit different than most web 2.0 startups we hear about. It is a 40 year-old technology company with

I'm here at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco where Neil Young, legendary rocker and the provider of the soundtrack to my early 20's, is announcing a very cool project

Personal search engine provider Lijit, which raised $3.3 million last July, will announced tomorrow that they have acquired BigSwerve for an undisclosed sum. BigSwerve, which was formed in 2006, has

How do you really use Twitter? Do you retweet a lot of other peoples' content, share a lot of links and respond to direct messages? A new service called Twittruth

It seems obvious that privacy is going to be a major point of contention in the near-term future. It's only going to get hotter as major online services compile huge

One of the big trends in 2008 has been the emergence of what I call Semantic Apps - a kind of 'Web 2.0 Meets Semantic Web' app typified by startups

The most extreme developers may find themselves left out in the cold. Twitter watchers know that a large part of the service's use comes through its Application Programming Interface (API)

Ten years ago the ClueTrain manifesto said that "markets are conversations" but today a more pertinent statement could be that conversations are becoming markets - or that there's a market

The Semantic Conference was held last week in San Jose. I went along to check it out. In the keynotes, Oracle's Robert Shimp noted that the attendance has never been

Here are some of the highlights from the week's Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we covered the iPhone 2.0 announcement, reviewed 6 Adobe AIR apps for