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Today Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. As several million people attended the inauguration in Washington D.C., Facebook and CNN invited the rest

Much has been said about the masterful use of social media by the Obama campaign. The people working for the President-Elect were by far the more active - and the

URL shorteners like TinyURL are a wildly popular way to share long links over email, IM, microblogging and other contexts. The millions of shortcuts that have been created through such

This week we're trying something new with the format of the Weekly Wrapup. Instead of listing all of the posts we published over the past week, we'll filter them so

Current Media, the parent company of Current TV and Current.com, has filed for a $100 Million IPO on NASDEQ. Current was famously co-founded by ex Vice President Al Gore.

Upcoming.org founder Andy Baio and Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter have released a project called Memeorandum Colors. It's an easy-to-install Greasemonkey plug-in that shows the political bias of past linking behavior

Twitter just announced its new home page redesign complete with trending topics and search. Publicly launched at the 2006 South by South tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_redesigns_as_streaming_trends_site.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; West interactive

Website traffic monitoring service Quantcast has launched a new search function that lets logged-in users search for sites that have particular audience demographics. Interested in finding websites that get a

Here is a summary of the week in Web technology on ReadWriteWeb. Reminder to PR people and startups: If you would like ReadWriteWeb to consider covering your product, you

This week the ReadWriteWeb team was in force at the Web 2.0 Summit, an annual event that covers the state of the Web industry. This year's theme was 'Web meets