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This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. Our first post was about Structured Data, our second about The Real-Time Web.

Facebook is holding a press webcast and phone call this morning regarding upcoming changes to its privacy policies and features. It's an ongoing story we've been following closely but as

Two year old life-story repository Dandelife seemed to have everything going for it. It launched to praise from some of the biggest tech blogs on the web, it built a

Nick Givotovsky, a Connecticut based internet consultant and long time contributor to the digital identity community, died in an accident at his home on Friday at the age of 44.

The internet is a visual medium, so it's no surprise that visual bookmarking services are becoming increasingly popular. The newest one we've discovered, called Enjoysthin.gs, takes the cake so far.

Popular social networking site Hi5 is launching its implementation of the OpenSocial platform today, the first apps go live at noon PST. The company is rolling out the apps very

How do you create filters for the real-time web? From spam filtration to relevant discovery, the "filter geeks" at the Real-Time Web Summit today are all about creating simple, rich

A few months ago, MySpace began to reveal details about its answer to Facebook Connect - MySpace Data Availability. At the time, we were left to guess what the offering

Ten private companies, a number of US Government Federal Agencies primarily in the Health sector and the OpenID and Information Card Foundations will announce this morning in Washington DC the

SXSW 2008 will most likely be remembered for the Zuckerberg interview controversy. But a more interesting phenomenon, that in some ways broke through at SXSW, was health care and tech.