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This post originally ran under the title Groups: The Secret Weapon of the Social Web. Since it's a holiday in the US and things are slow today, we thought readers

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Technorati_Launches_New_Topics_Feature'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Blog search engine Technorati today announced a new feature: topics. Topics is a river-of-news style aggregator of posts from top

RSS feed remixing has been a pet topic of mine for quite some time, so tonight it was a pleasure to discover Yahoo's new Pipes service (hat-tip Thejesh). It's a

Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want

Recently people have been comparing lifestreaming services FriendFeed and Socialthing!, trying to determine which one will win or whether they even compete. For example, see ReadWriteWeb's post FriendFeed vs SocialThing!.

I'm at the Webstock conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Currently speaking is Peter Morville, whose topic is "Ambient Findability and the Future of Search". Peter Morville was co-author of the

Are you subscribing to too many blogs? Tired of the same old stuff flowing through your feeds? Think there's a better way? Well, I have just the idea for you.

In our recent post, MySpace: Hot or Not?, we took a look at the social networking giant to understand what's going on with the site. We found that while

With so many social media sites in circulation today, badge soup can become a real problem for web sites trying to squeeze the most out of their traffic. Everyone has

Yesterday, the big news for the identi.ca crowd was an answer to their wishes: Identi.ca is now supported in the AIR app Twhirl. Why is the support for this open-source