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From Brussels-based company Attentio comes a new blog search engine and trend-tracking tool called Trendpedia. The service, now out of beta, lets you scan the blogosphere for trends to see

Brizzly wants to be to microblogging what Blogger.com was to blogging five years ago. Currently, Brizzly offers a user-friendly browser-based interface for Twitter and Facebook. The Facebook integration went live

Whenever there is a conference or event, there's a secondary bit of action taking place behind the scenes: the backchannel. Here, the attendees are live blogging, twittering, posting photos, and

Web 2.0 New York starts today and I'm here at the event. I will be Twittering my instant takes (@bernardlunn), summarizing here on ReadWriteWeb when I have time. I plan

Earlier this week we announced our Best BigCo of 2007, Facebook. In this post we're announcing our pick for Best LittleCo. We're also asking for your nominations for Most Promising

Yes there are profitable, self-funded SaaS product companies out there. They're the ones we're celebrating in our Gritty Entrepreneur series. To that end, we recently interviewed Timothy Young, CEO of

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/The_Evolution_of_Personal_Publishing'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Fred Wilson recently wrote a post on his blog in which he argues that the rapid adoption of Twitter and

Today, socialmedian, the social news web site which we've described as a "less noisy FriendFeed" launched a new set of features called "Replize." Now socialmedian users can track conversations on

In a time of widespread economic downturn, a number of companies powering a new form of communication are bulking up their teams with new staff. Twitter, its leading open source

The team behind microblogging service Pownce announced on the company blog today that it is joining blog software company SixApart and closing Pownce in two weeks. Pownce left private beta