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When Facebook announced their "open platform" in May 2007, it suddenly became all the rage. Third party web app developers rushed to integrate their apps into this increasingly popular social

Sampa is an interesting new homepage-builder product that has just gone into beta. Like a lot of the products I'm interested in these days, it's quite hard to explain what

Clearspring is going to annouce tomorrow that it was chosen by NBC to be its exclusive widget platform for the next year. This is a major deal for Clearspring,

I thought I'd post this before Phil Pearson gets to it ;-) A New Zealander, Chris Liddell, has just been appointed to the job of Chief Financial Officer at Microsoft,

Google I/O is the first event for web developers that Google has run. It happens later this week on 28/29 May and Google is expecting 2,500 people to attend. The

Last month, we told you about Iceberg, an application that allows anyone to be a developer by simplifying programming into a process that can be done via easy-to-use DIY tools.

Jerry Yang, founder and CEO of Yahoo!, the world's third most trafficked collection of web sites, yesterday laid out his plan to investors (and in a blog post) to revitalize

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/mods/Can_My_Yahoo_Compete_With_Facebook_and_iGoogle'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; This week's Read/WriteWeb Files is investigating the 100 Days For Yahoo. In a recent earnings conference call, new Yahoo CEO

Yahoo just announced that the close beta period for its location platform Fire Eagle has ended and that the service is now open for everybody. We wrote about Fire Eagle

How considerate of Facebook to wait until Read/WriteWeb's Facebook Week to announce their first major acquisition. For an as-yet-undisclosed sum, Facebook has acquired Parakey, a Web OS company founded by